Parenting Update Archives

5 Ways to Prepare for Your First Time Homeschooling

The great thing about homeschooling is that flexibility allows for a certain level of stress to dissipate. Instead of the morning rush and chaos...

5 Ways to Prepare for Your First Time Homeschooling

3 Ways to Keep Your Kids Off Their Screens

Including them doesn’t mean you’re lessening your authority, but you are teaching them self-discipline and determination. Teaching them the value...

3 Ways to Keep Your Kids Off Their Screens

3 Ways Apologizing to Your Children Is Important

If we don't take ownership of our faults and apologize to our children when we've wronged them or did something wrong that they witnessed or...

3 Ways Apologizing to Your Children Is Important

5 Biblical Ways to Prepare for the School Year Well

Now is the time to get ready for all that God has in store. It is the moment to prepare well and to seek the Lord in every area. We can coast until...

5 Biblical Ways to Prepare for the School Year Well

5 Prayers for Friends for Your Teen

My most genuine and best relationships have been nothing short of a gift from God. They've been friends when I wasn't able to be. They've stuck by...

5 Prayers for Friends for Your Teen

4 Video Games to Have Your Children Avoid

Most video games and apps today can gain access to your children. It is not a one-sided game anymore. With chat functions, YouTube tutorials and...

4 Video Games to Have Your Children Avoid

5 Back to School Prayers for Families and Teachers

Going back to school each fall brings a ton of rollercoaster-type emotions for parents, kids, and teachers alike. Whether you’re homeschooling,...

5 Back to School Prayers for Families and Teachers

6 Ways to Prepare Your Child for High School

It’s never been harder to be a Christian student. Realities like a global pandemic, social media, relative truth, and polarizing stances—even...

6 Ways to Prepare Your Child for High School

How to Help Your Children Discover Their Passions

Wanting success, growth, skill development, or even a winning season isn’t bad. However, those are just preferences and not requirements of our...

How to Help Your Children Discover Their Passions

14 Encouraging and Empowering Verses for Parents of Special Needs Children

The uncertainty and struggles can lead to feelings of loneliness, despair, bitterness and hopelessness. When we acknowledge our feelings and...

14 Encouraging and Empowering Verses for Parents of Special Needs Children

10 Ways to Love Your Child Who Has Rejected Christ

The heartbreak is real. For Christian parents who have a child who has rejected Christ, the worry, sadness, and heartbreak is unavoidable. If...

10 Ways to Love Your Child Who Has Rejected Christ

4 Prayers for Your Child Who Struggles with Anxiety

Prayer is a powerful tool that we parents have to help our kids when they face hard things. No parent wants to see their child battle with anxiety,...

4 Prayers for Your Child Who Struggles with Anxiety

6 Classic Novels to Read With Your Kids

No matter what classic novel you choose to read with your child, a whole world will open for them. And the benefit of the classics is the voices of...

6 Classic Novels to Read With Your Kids

Take Your Kids on a Hike

A new article in the Washington Post found that teens are turning to the great outdoors to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Take Your Kids on a Hike

6 Ways to Thrive as an Empty Nester

As I have embarked upon the journey of moving toward an empty nest, I don’t mind telling you that I have probably not had the smoothest of...

6 Ways to Thrive as an Empty Nester