Family Update Archives

Our world seems even more fear-driven than the remembrances of my childhood nightmares. The newspaper headlines scream fear. As parents, how do we...

If you are struggling with helping your children learn gratitude and contentment, here are five ways to teach your kids to be grateful, in season...

While I sincerely hope and imagine that the current circumstances we are facing aren’t permanent, it stands to reason that this huge (and lengthy)...

While every parent makes mistakes, there are some behaviors that can impact a child well into adulthood and even become stumbling blocks to their...

While we want our grandkids to remember their times on Papa’s farm, we want to leave them with a godly legacy.

Honest fear for our little ones can drive us crazy—plus affect our physical health— or we can look to the Bible for answers and hope.

When we try to create independence, sometimes we make our kids dependent on us. As we encourage kids to be strong, sometimes we make them weaker....

Gulp. Do we have to live out God’s truth first? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. And here are four ways to accomplish that.

Children are born with a propensity to feel entitled and to demand that their needs be met.

God longs for us to make wise decisions. The implications affect both ourselves and others. Here are 5 ideas which, used collaboratively, can aid...

COVID-19 has significant mental health risks for all of us. Here are 5 ways as a parent you can look out for your teen's mental health during this...

When you’re feeling unsettled, disrupted or just plain too loud in your head, here are some helpful scriptures to slow your steps, soften your...

The process of becoming Foster parents came with a lot of fear and still I’m afraid of what saying “yes” to God’s plan for us to expand our family...

My husband and I were informed that we were going to become grandparents at the age of 42. Perhaps life has thrown you a similar curveball.

This school year, we are all getting a crash course in “fluid” and “subject to change”. But one thing we can count on as we take tentative steps...