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3 Tips for a Successful Back-to-School Year

He's the one who has given us these gifts, and to forsake Him and His wisdom along the journey would be harmful to our overall development.

3 Tips for a Successful Back-to-School Year

10 Powerful Prayers for the School Year

These transitional days back to school mark a critical need to lay a foundation of prayer for our children. Our best resource for prayer is the...

10 Powerful Prayers for the School Year

4 Things You Should Know about Camp Hideout

Camp Hideout is an impressive "first film" from Called Higher Studios, which offers audiences a rare treat: a live-action, family-friendly PG...

4 Things You Should Know about Camp Hideout

5 Prayers for Your Middle School Child

Our peace cannot rely on how our children are behaving or performing. Jesus “Himself is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). In all of the ups and downs of...

5 Prayers for Your Middle School Child

Is Over-Parenting Turning Your Kids Away from Faith?

While under-parenting can throw our kids to the wolves, is it possible that over-parenting can turn our kids away from faith?

Is Over-Parenting Turning Your Kids Away from Faith?

10 Scriptures of Hope for the Single Mom

God’s Word is living because its author is living. Children grow up, life moves on, but God’s Word always soothes our fragmented places.

10 Scriptures of Hope for the Single Mom

5 Things I Wish My Daughter Knew

The more she matures, the more I'm confident our relationship will grow and that I will not only be a person to offer wise counsel in her life, but...

5 Things I Wish My Daughter Knew

Does Your Child Struggle with Perfectionism?

In a growth mindset, you focus on the progress you made yesterday or the previous attempt. You look back at where you came from and acknowledge the...

Does Your Child Struggle with Perfectionism?

5 Reasons Your Family Needs a List of Values

When I drop them off at a friend’s house or school event, all I have to say is, “Remember who you are…” and they complete it with, “And Who you...

5 Reasons Your Family Needs a List of Values

3 Ways to Encourage Your Children Instead of Pressuring Them

Parents are critical in the development of their children. It starts at home. Our children need influences they can trust will see and cherish...

3 Ways to Encourage Your Children Instead of Pressuring Them

How to Help Your Daughter Grow in Her Friendships

Whether it was friend groups shifting or friends no longer there, it meant some adjustments in a very pivotal part of a girl’s life. Maybe you are...

How to Help Your Daughter Grow in Her Friendships

9 Proverbs for Your Family to Memorize This School Year

He still remembered the days of memorizing the Proverbs - one for each chapter. And surprisingly, he could still recall many of them! Of course,...

9 Proverbs for Your Family to Memorize This School Year

7 Ways to Encourage Your Child's Teacher throughout the Year

Encouraging your child’s teacher throughout the year is more important than you realize. Every hard-working teacher needs to know they are making a...

7 Ways to Encourage Your Child's Teacher throughout the Year

How to Help Your Son Grow in His Friendships

Boys, in particular, can sometimes be less likely to pursue friendships the way that girls do. Boys may gain friends by doing sports, music, clubs,...

How to Help Your Son Grow in His Friendships

4 Reasons to Deal with Childhood Trauma

You deserve to live a life free of your childhood trauma.

4 Reasons to Deal with Childhood Trauma