Parenting Update Archives

Parenting is a battlefield bursting with questions that beg to be answered. Thankfully, many older mothers pass their knowledge to the next...

The pressure to keep our kids’ schedules filled to the brim can diminish the possibility of a summer respite.

So what’s the big deal? You’re single and you’re a mom––but girl’s just wanna have fun, right? What if I told you––wrong?

While some teens take offense to anything a parent says, most of the time, we have more power than we think in setting the tone of our...

Ask God for opportunities to share His love. He may open a door for you that is two minutes away. He may provide a trip around the world.

The same passion and love that caused the birth of your children can be unceremoniously extinguished by the presence of those same children!

Unfortunately, children are not immune from pain and/or suffering -- neither are mom and dad.

Allowing our teens another summer with nothing but sleeping in and hanging out isn’t doing them any real favors.

It seems activities that should be fun, become a source of anxiety. Are we heading down a path the next generations may regret?

When life pitches us into despair, we experience the fullest of God’s grace sufficient for the most turbulent of times.

Teen moms need the same help any and every new mom needs.

When your children mess up, take the opportunity to instill real life lessons in them. Lessons straight from the gospel.

For parents, life goes on in June. For teens, life takes a pause. School is out for several weeks. So what’s the parent of a bored teen to do?

Most Christian parents and grandparents are constantly looking for good reading material for the little ones in the family.

When I would enter a room as a young single mother, I could feel everyone staring at me. My inability to “keep” a husband was a reproach I had to...