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There’s something magical about waking up to see the living room transformed overnight. One way to do this is to “wrap” the entrance where the Christmas tree is located. After the kids go to bed, cover the entryway or door with wrapping paper so...

Build your calendar. After culling the old traditions and wrapping in some new ones, it’s time to pull out your calendar and see what’s feasible in light of school and church functions. Don’t forget to build in margin—that extra time of empty...

An unintentional side effect of being so connected is that parents—and children—have relational fatigue from the pressure of constant communication and competition for attention. By concentrating on disconnecting, we can reaffirm our commitment to...

Many of the lies we believe about parenting sound like good recommendations, but closer scrutiny reveals the suggestions as false.

Consider the context. When my teenager snaps something rude to me, I wonder why - is my child having a bad day? Is he upset about losing a game or doing poorly on a test? Not that this means the child has license to be rude, but it does help me to...

While there are no fool-proof ways to get your teen to talk to you, there are ways to make it easier for communication to happen. Here are a dozen ideas to get your teen to open up with you.

It’s nearly graduation season for high schoolers, and what better time than now to think about what advice to give these young men and women on the cusp of adulthood.

Why do we correct our children? This is the question to answer before delving into tips for disciplining your kid. If we don’t know why we’re doing it, we’ll get muddled in the execution of the discipline.

While women have been fighting to change the noxious nature of the purity culture, men should also work to reduce the toxicity residing within the purity culture.

We must remind our kids that they are masters of themselves. It seems obvious, but children do need to be told that they can control their reactions. Here are some ways parents can guide their children’s development of self-control.

What we fail to realize is that daydreaming has real benefits to our children (and even for adults!). Here are eight reasons to encourage your child’s daydreaming. 

Sarah Hamaker shares with us eight worship songs and hymns that will help to prepare us for Easter this year and beyond. 

In this video, Sarah Hamaker gives us six Scripture-based Easter prayers to prepare our hearts to celebrate Christ's resurrection.

While this isn’t a foolproof method for keeping our children safe, I think it does underscore something vitally important—that one reason sexual predators get away with their despicable deeds is that we’ve inadvertently trained our children that...

It’s hard for the out-of-work person and for his or her loved ones to stay positive, especially if the unemployment drags on and on. Here are eight ways you can encourage your unemployed loved one, whether it’s a spouse, relative, friend,...

In other words, your child can still choose to do the wrong thing in the face of severe punishment, but you, as the parent, must still choose to do the right thing. This is one of the hardest things for parents to learn because we want to believe...

Sarah Hamaker shares 4 Bible verses and 5 prayers for Mother's Day. 

Prayer is both one of the easiest things for new believers and one of the hardest. It’s easy because prayer is essentially talking to God. It can be hard because we humans sometimes worry too much about how we pray. 

You might not have thought much about your parenting style, but this video will discuss the four main parenting styles and which one is best for raising kind, well-adjusted adults.

To combat “I’m bored,” you need a magic box of techniques that encourages kids to entertain themselves and discourages them from bothering you with their boredom.