Parenting Archives

There are many books about single parenting and tips on how to raise the children alone, but few about your own emotional health.

If you’re just starting out, you wonder, What are the essentials? What would someone experienced say about their parenting regrets?

Every year around this time, we’re asked, “What do the kids want for Christmas?”

Sometimes doing less is the best gift a tired mom can give her family.

That pornography is “harmless” is a lie from the pit of Hell.

If you wish to avoid the risk or possibility of being hurt, do not adopt a child. Do not foster a child.

What can a family’s Advent prayers look like? And how can we keep weekly family Advent activities from becoming just one more holiday ritual?

We can teach our children to pray for their friends using the acronym LET’S PRAY.

Every adoption is the culmination of countless independent decisions the Lord seamlessly works together.

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4

The vast majority of teenage boys were not made to sit at desks for hours and hours at a time.

I believe parents have a few things in common with politicians: making speeches, addressing problems, protecting reputations and giving hope.

Ten truths every teenage girl needs to hear.

I need to confess my sins to my children. They need to know I sin; they need to know I repent, and they need to know I’m forgiven.

Back when I was at school, teachers stopped kids from saying bad words, not Bible verses. Last I checked, “Jesus” wasn’t a four-letter word.