Parenting Update Archives

If they see us scrolling mindlessly for hours, they will likely do the same. However, if they see us with boundaries in place for ourselves and not...

My girls grew up seeing their dad read the Word and avail himself of tools to help him dig into it. They got used to me saying to them at the...

One way of ditching pride in parenting is by ensuring that you seek forgiveness from your kids whenever you wrong them. Besides, your kids will...

On the trying days, He offers you wisdom and comfort through His Word. And, He gives you little glimmers of hope found in those first smiles and...

They are braver than you know. They are capable of doing hard things. Yes, they most certainly will make choices that break your heart. But choose...

It is vitally important to tell our kids the truth, even if it may hurt their feelings, cause them to disagree, or even make them mad. We should...

My mother used to tell me that when she was raising my siblings and me, she would pray that God would "fill in the gaps" in her parenting. I...

Making health decisions for our children is never easy, especially in the case of a new disease that continues to change, but we do have a...

Praying for our older kids gives us something to do with our worries about them. It turns our inward thoughts upward and hands them off to our...

"What is your worst memory of youth sports?" An overwhelming number said: "The ride home with my parents after games." When the same athletes were...

Children now resort to many strange dark platforms on the internet to seek guidance and moral validation rather than communicating with their...

Between tending to a newborn and going on little sleep, sex becomes lost amid parenthood. Especially when mothers are told to wait at least six...

God invented parenthood, and what God creates, He cares for. God sees us both as parents and His children, and His heart toward us is relational...

Growing up and being accountable does not gain you the ability to earn your way into God's grace; the opposite is true: in adulthood, we show that...

A rainbow baby is a child born to a family that has previously lost a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or death during infancy. They are a...