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For moms who work professionally, it's all too easy to feel frazzled. But your life doesn't have to spin out of control. If you're deliberate about...

There is no manual, textbook or class to prepare you for the questions that the open, innocent, answer-needing child can ask.

The tobacco industry tries very hard to make tobacco use look attractive and cool to our young people -- and they succeed. Nearly 3,000 young...

Negotiations commenced this week as each of our children tried to sell us on a request. Each asked in a different way and each got a different...

Author of Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, Judith Warner has issued a manifesto for postmodern motherhood. As she sees it,...

After watching an NBC special on students and sex, the word "casual" comes to mind when describing many teenagers' attitude towards sex today. It...

Like many stepparents, I naively expected to develop strong, loving bonds with my stepdaughters. Since I had chosen to care for someone else's...

If Jesus rose from the dead today, how would you announce his resurrection? "I would be screaming," says Meg, age 9, "'Jesus is not in the tomb.' I...

Parents who have found porn in their e-mail inboxes, been tormented by raunchy pop-up images, or have unwittingly stumbled across graphic sites,...

In his new book, How to Bring Your Children to Christ and Keep Them There , Ray Comfort of Living Waters Ministry says there are biblical...

Dr. David Fisher, M.D., of Wake Forest University agrees with a recent report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) that breastfeeding...

Few of us received training in how to be an effective father before actually becoming one, but it's never too late to think through the issues of...

Several years ago, we interviewed healthy families across the country and asked them each the same question: "What do you believe is the main...

A new survey finds a good number of American teens are religiously active, but not very well-educated in their faith -- resulting in a shallow...

It's an age-old dilemma. How do we as parents pass on good housekeeping skills to our children without them hating us for it? Should we help our...