Parenting Update Archives

If you’re just starting out, you wonder, What are the essentials? What would someone experienced say about their parenting regrets?

We live in a culture that is constantly talking about love, lust, sex, and romance.

We might not know how to train the character qualities that will help our children most and counter attitudes that will harm them.

Every year around this time, we’re asked, “What do the kids want for Christmas?”

Sometimes doing less is the best gift a tired mom can give her family.

That pornography is “harmless” is a lie from the pit of Hell.

Ignoring advice might not always be the best strategy, or the most biblical.

What can a family’s Advent prayers look like? And how can we keep weekly family Advent activities from becoming just one more holiday ritual?

We want our kids to be safe and happy. We don’t want them to struggle. Yet Jesus told the disciples, “In this world you will have trouble.”

One of the most powerful things we can do as parents is to teach our kids God’s Word, to help them learn how to hide His Truths in their hearts.

Even if you and Mom are not on the best of terms currently, that does not excuse you as one of your children’s primary spiritual and life leaders.

What if I told you about one simple trick to change the tone of your house?

I believed that if I lived according to the Word, kept my kids in church, and lived out biblical principles in the home, all would be well… until...

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4

The vast majority of teenage boys were not made to sit at desks for hours and hours at a time.