Parenting Update Archives

When emotions run high in your home, it can feel overwhelming to respond with grace. Learn wise, gentle tools to support your child—and...

Even when our kids are grown, they still need us to notice them. Here are 10 things your adult children hope you will see in them. Your son or...

Even after all the experience we got with our own children, navigating relationships for grandparents is still tricky territory. Here are 5 types...

Letting go when a child leaves for college can feel like grief, gratitude, pride, and fear all at once. In this deeply personal reflection, Meg...

An Oxford study found that grandparents play a high-level role in children's emotional and behavioral growth. Present grandparents help ensure...

Even the most organized plans will falter and require you to pivot. Don’t be discouraged; remember that God’s grace is sufficient and will cover...

Snowplow parenting can come from love, but constantly clearing obstacles for our children may keep them from learning responsibility, resilience,...

I delight in buying composition books, index cards, highlighters, and the like. Whether you enjoy school supplies as I do, or not,...

We know Grandparents have every good intention at heart, but here are some things that you might want to be aware of in your goal of lightening the...

We hurt for them, children with weight heaped upon their shoulders – weight that is much too heavy even for adults to carry. The most powerful...

As the school year approaches, we can become easily swept up with to-do lists that we forget the...

As summer winds down and the new school year approaches, let's take a moment to pray for the kids who will be going back to school. These prayers...

We all want to know that what we are doing for our children makes an impact on their lives. There is nothing more powerful that you can do in...

So many things can tear a person down, not all can be addressed in a single article.

When we pray to God, asking for our children to be protected from Satan, we should remember that we aren’t praying to a distant, indifferent...