Parenting Archives

Moms can often entertain thoughts like these: “Did I make the right decision? How will this experience affect her? Will she forgive me for messing...

I wish we’d prayed with our children more than we did. I admit it was hard to find the time—and the energy—but when we did, it was so worth the...

Despite the rising awareness about mental health, parents aren’t sure how to start the conversation with their teens or they may feel like it’s a...

A Christian heritage is a beautiful thing. Raising our children in church plants seeds that later will yield a bountiful harvest. “Train...

Co-parenting requires dealing with the “worms in the can” and letting painful emotions take a back seat to the needs of the children.

God gives us the Scriptures to show us exactly what He wants to accomplish through our family.

Based on my experience of parenting teens, pastoring teens, and being a teen, I’d like to burn three words into the hearts and minds of all teens:...

Our kids get their materialistic sin nature from birth, but our culture exasperates it. As parents, we can help our children be less materialistic...

As parents, we’re eager for our children to experience the priceless gift of church for themselves. We feel grief and frustration when our teens...

If you are the parent of a teenager, here are three ways you can cultivate your teen’s growth in godliness:

I’m a mother who, after 20 years of hands-on mothering, only kind of has an outlet for mothering. I’m pretty much done and yet also not really...

Though it might seem that we (moms and kids) have different needs, the gospel reminds us that our greatest need is actually the same. We are all...

Single moms are much more than a list of mistakes. They need our love not judgment. And just like the rest of us, they need biblical direction and...

The story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 teaches parents 4 ways to be focused on grace as you parent your child.

What do you say when nothing can make it better? A child who has lost a loved one cannot be comforted — at least not in a lasting way...