Family Update Archives

Here are 5 wonderful benefits of church community on your marriage.

How do you achieve success as a family? By following these 11 rules—and ways to implement them—that are the hallmarks of successful families.

The average American worker clocking in 40 hours a week from age 20-65 will spend 90,360 hours working in a lifetime. How can you be both...

We must honestly face our issues. We must know the hidden character traits that continue to trip us up.

While there may be times we have to grab the wheel from our kids, it’s important that we begin letting go in the teen years.

When you are a mother, guilt is a state of being. I personally am plagued with guilt every time I stop and think about my effectiveness as a...

To the many folks who have said to me, “God told me to marry him/her,” I want to cry out, “No, he didn’t.”

We are moms. We are warrior moms. United forever by the tight bonds of motherhood, we share this journey that we hold dear.

You may think that he needs you less now than he used to. But the teen years are a crucial time for you to influence your son.

The last thing any married person wants to hear is that their spouse has been unfaithful. But, the truth is, you’ve probably been unfaithful and...

In our society, we don’t have the time for kids who daydream. What we fail to realize is that daydreaming has real benefits to our children (and...

Trust is the foundation, the necessary glue, of every marriage. So how can we tell if our marriage rests on a foundation of trust?

Who could have prepared us for the world of parenthood? Pretty much no one. It opens up a universe we never knew existed.

There are few gifts you can give your kids more valuable than the skills and attitudes they need to be great money managers.

No woman dreams of marrying a man that struggles with lust, but the sad truth is most of us do.