Parenting Update Archives

While we may have been young adults once, we have never parented them before. It requires open communication and incorporating wisdom from those...

The day I became a mom, the line between my world and my son’s instantly blurred. In the process of loving my boy, I forgot who I was before I had...

As parents, we’re tempted to compare our kids to one another. Yet if we give in to those destructive comparisons, we’ll do long-lasting damage to...

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

Parenting children with mental health issues can be isolating and exhausting. How do you find hope for walking forward? Here are 5 ways.

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...

I have found that when I flip my perspective as a Mom to one filled with gratitude rather than frustration then I am able to live my days more...

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.

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...

Slowness, stiffness, loss of abilities – every aging adult deals with them in some way. It is part of the human condition, a result of the Fall,...

The first time my oldest son asked us about how babies left me questioning everything about my responses and praying I did not scar him for life!

Honestly, we just can’t do it all. How do you know what to focus on, and what to let go of?