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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Connecting with Family

Connect on Their Terms

Making time for your teen’s interests, even when it’s inconvenient, is important in your ongoing relationship.

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What Do Teens Really Want?

Learn what teens most value. It may surprise you!

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Playing Pokémon Go as a Family

Pokémon Go offers one family a way to enjoy adventures together and learn more about each other.

Terrible Teens?

Are the teen years always terrible? Get some practical advice from an experienced parent who didn’t think so.

When Your Adopted Child Pushes You Away

Helping your child feel secure in family relationships.

Helping Kids Adjust to Rules in Two Different Homes

Imagine you’re abruptly uprooted after being totally immersed in another culture. Could it be that this is similar to how our children feel when they live in two homes?

Grace Is Enough

Do Your Teens Know That Grace Is Enough?

Do good, and you’ll be OK. Do more, and you’ll be saved. That’s what many teens think, but it’s not what God wants them to know.

Honor and Support to our troops is seen as several service men and women are in the picture with packages that were sent to them.

How to Honor and Support Those Who Serve

Model a healthy respect for your country’s military men and women to your kids through activities, your words and actions. 

28 Things You’ll Wish You Packed for Your Cruise

Are you thinking about taking a family cruise? If so, don’t forget to pack these 28 items that aren’t always found on packing lists.

The Many Roles of Grandparents

Creative grandparents play several roles. They are historians, mentors and role models, all of which are significant and important as grandparents seek to love and nurture a new generation.

Women and Anger

Learning how to attack the issues without attacking the people you love can be a challenge. If you’ve ever struggled with anger, Lysa Terkeurst offers a few insights that might help.

Adoption: When Siblings Are Strangers

Ease into the transition of building bonds between new siblings after an adoption

Christian Faith in American History

Our children need to know the truth about the influence of the Christian faith in American history. After all, the freedoms we enjoy in America today originated in Judeo-Christian ideals that date back to long before the American Revolution.

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Healthy Families: A Community’s Most Effective Social Justice Agent

Family is the first institution God gave humanity. No surprise then that it is the best mechanism for improving human thriving and the establishment of justice.

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Grandma Camp

God loves our grandchildren and has a wonderful purpose for their lives. Here is one way we help them understand how valuable they are to us.

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Conflict Resolution

Part of the A Biblical Guide to Resolving Conflict Series Conflict Resolution Tips and Tools for Healthy Conflict Resolution Family Ties: When Conflict Strikes Close to Home Destructive Conflict: Recognize It. Stop It. Workplace Conflict: One Woman’s Story Unresolved Conflict: Next Steps Series About: Relationship Challenges Conflict is inevitable. No relationship is immune. When managed …

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Forgiveness in the Family

Forgiveness is not holding our nose, squeezing our eyes shut, uttering a prayer and then jumping into a new reality because we believe that is what the Bible commands.

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Family Time and Relationships

My wife, Cathy, and I stared at each other in disbelief as our oldest daughter, Christy, told us she was running away. When she started packing her suitcase, we knew she was serious. Cathy and I weren’t sure if we should laugh or cry — after all, Christy was only 6. Our daughter told us …

God’s Message About Family Relationships

Appreciate the precious gift of parenthood granted to you by your child’s birth family by embracing them through the love of Jesus Christ.

Options and Successful Strategies

Requests for visits with the child by birth families are on the rise.