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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

A new school year brings excitement, nerves, schedules, decisions, and many unknowns for students, parents, and teachers. This article offers five...

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

Do I Expect Too Much from My Child?

When we follow this biblical command, motivated by love, it will help calm our worry over whether or not we expect too much from our children, or...

Do I Expect Too Much from My Child?

How Can I Get My Teenage Son to Respect Me?

What can you do if your teenage boy is openly disobeying you, and your husband won't back you up?

How Can I Get My Teenage Son to Respect Me?

How to Stay Sane When Your Kids Are Bickering

If only that quiet, uninterrupted time could last longer! If only interruptions didn’t always make me forget who I am in Christ Jesus. But then no...

How to Stay Sane When Your Kids Are Bickering

10 Conversations to Have with Your Teens before They Leave for College

Here are 10 conversation starters to have with our teens before they leave for college to remind them of God’s care. This is by no means an...

10 Conversations to Have with Your Teens before They Leave for College