Parenting Update Archives

Instead of being one of the main influences in my grandchild’s life, I was to play a supporting role.

We have an amazing calling as parents. It doesn’t end just because they become young adults.

Parenting isn’t a part-time birth-through-high-school occupation. It’s a full-time, life-long assignment given by God. Children are gifts and...

God sees your work as valuable because you're caring for people created in his image.

One day, our child may do or say something that causes us embarrassment or anger. It threatens to make us look like we don’t really know how to...

Over recent years, social media has been an incredible conduit for viral challenges and fads. Since the famous "Ice-Bucket Challenge", most...

Here are seven foolish things parents say that create poor expectations for both parent and child and cause the very things we are trying to avoid.

Why is it that the everyday occurrences can hit your switch and send you into a rant?

Do my children and grandchildren see God’s love reflected in my life in the same way? Do they see Jesus in me?

One of these apps has been blamed for a rash of teen suicides. Another one has been linked to anonymous death threats. Are your kids using any of...

Children who feel that the world owes them (something, everything) for the simple fact that they are… themselves, are exhibiting entitlement.

Once a mom, always a mom. We may enter motherhood through different avenues, but whether we cradle our bundles of joy the first moment of their...

Tragically, many people who grew up as Christians end up drifting away from the faith once they become adults. Parents are heartbroken to watch...

Spiritual children who remain children for too long become hardened to spiritual things. If we don’t move deliberately forward in our spiritual...

Social media can be a powerful communicator of God’s truth, but it can also hurt.