Mom's Weekly Archives

When I had my first child, I had no clue what I was doing. While I knew a few women at my church, I didn’t feel close enough to ask practical...

Last December I started a new habit—something that worked so well, I plan to keep the tradition. As a mom of four, I stick with simple—and this is...

As exciting as it is to be a new mom, it’s also unfamiliar territory. And although being a mother is wonderful, there’s no going back. Ever.

If our teens don’t “buy in” to the rules, the relational approach makes enforcing those rules more difficult.

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

Here are a few encouraging truths that we can take away from one passage for our parenting, when we see our kids enduring hardship or suffering.

It’s natural for parents to panic when it comes to addressing sex with children. But if we don't talk with our kids we open them up to potential...

When you’re the parent with a screaming child in a store or restaurant, the last thing you want is to be accosted by an unsympathetic stranger.

Despite disrespect, poor choices, and/or general moodiness, deep down we still love our sons and daughters as much as the day we brought them home....

My kids are smarty-pants, ridiculously intelligent, off the charts...How intimidating for a parent! But I have learned a lot from corralling the...

If we’re not excited about this book, we can’t expect our children to be.

I’ve spent my whole life listening to the story in the Bible where Jesus feeds five thousand people with five small loaves of bread and two fish.

Once upon a time, there lived a man and a woman in the garden Paradise, where they were terrifically happy. Their names were Adam and Eve, and God...

It’s a simple fact: most young Christians will walk away from the Church during (or before) their college years.

We can all fall prey to loneliness, but as a single mom, it can be especially hard.