Parenting Archives

4 Things to Do When Your Kids Won't Stop Fighting

If you are walking through a stage of parenting where there is conflict between your children, here are a few suggestions and tricks to help...

4 Things to Do When Your Kids Won't Stop Fighting

How to Help Your Family to Be Grateful This Year

As the world navigates unprecedented challenges, parents are faced with the daunting task of modeling gratitude to their children. Research shows...

How to Help Your Family to Be Grateful This Year

5 Critical Ways to Protect Your Family through Prayer

How can we use this knowledge to protect our families (without following them around in our preverbal helicopter)?

5 Critical Ways to Protect Your Family through Prayer

5 Things That Can Rob a Child of Faith, and How Parents Can Help

The world is full of traps and snares that have the potential to hurt our relationship with God. Our role as parents is to help shape or shepherd...

5 Things That Can Rob a Child of Faith, and How Parents Can Help

2 Big Ways Parents Actually Make Things Worse

In my years as a pediatrician and a parent of four, I’ve recognized two common mistakes parents make that seem like a good idea but are actually...

2 Big Ways Parents Actually Make Things Worse

3 Ways to Restore Self-Worth in Your Kids after an Uncertain Year

Relating in uncertainty can impact our sense of our self-worth. How do we help children know their self-worth when they’re developing in distance...

3 Ways to Restore Self-Worth in Your Kids after an Uncertain Year

5 Ways to Avoid Raising Spoiled Kids

How do we teach him to share and take turns? What if he becomes spoiled or selfish? How do we keep a me-first attitude from taking over his heart?

5 Ways to Avoid Raising Spoiled Kids

How to Trust God When Things Are Falling Apart

Instead of burying your hope in unmet expectations, seasons of disappointment, and questions that go unanswered, bury hopelessness. Instead of...

How to Trust God When Things Are Falling Apart

7 Biblical Truths to Teach Your Kids about the 2020 Election

This election cycle is a stressful one for all involved. Your kids need help to keep the election in perspective and to be reminded of God’s good...

7 Biblical Truths to Teach Your Kids about the 2020 Election

Godly Grandparenting: Ways to Inspire Faith in Your Grandkids

As a grandparent, you play an important role in your grandchildren’s lives – so important, in fact, that your influence on them has eternal...

Godly Grandparenting: Ways to Inspire Faith in Your Grandkids

How to Forgive Your Parents for Childhood Pain

Most people who have had a parent, biological or adopted, can say that at the very least someone had shortcomings that led to pain on our parts. In...

How to Forgive Your Parents for Childhood Pain

How to Be Purposeful with Your Family Values

Most lessons for our kids are caught rather than taught. Which means how we live our lives makes the most powerful impression on what our children...

How to Be Purposeful with Your Family Values

3 Steps to Heal Your Pandemic-Fatigue Grief

COVID isn't going anywhere--and it's weighing heavily on all of us. God wants to be there for us in our grief.

3 Steps to Heal Your Pandemic-Fatigue Grief

College Admissions: 6 Must-Do Tips for Success

Applying for college is a hair-pulling, nail-biting time of life for both parents and students alike.

College Admissions: 6 Must-Do Tips for Success

What Is a Baby Dedication in the Church and Are They Biblical?

What's the difference between infant baptism and baby dedications?

What Is a Baby Dedication in the Church and Are They Biblical?