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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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Healthy Habits

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Coronavirus Safety Tips for Kids

Parents can relay simple tips to their children to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

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Codependency: What Is It?

By general definition, codependency is an adaptive coping mechanism used compulsively by those trying to find personal worth and value by meeting perceived needs of others.

How to Stop Whining, Teasing and Bickering

If you want your kids to stop whining, teasing and bickering, you need to better understand what your kids’ words say about their hearts.

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Healthy Individuals Create Healthy Marriages

Because the health of marriage is ultimately determined by individual health, we need to be diligent about emotional, mental, physical and spiritual fitness.

Faith Conversation: Knowledge

If we want our faith in God to increase, we must increase our knowledge of God and His ways. This couple’s devotion will help you encourage your spouse to build and increase his or her faith.

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Exercise for Young and Old

Enjoy using these creative ways to integrate exercise into your and your children’s daily routines.

Family Fitness

Find fitness solutions that seamlessly fit into everyday family life!

Better Bedtime, Better Marriage

One of the most sacred times in a marriage relationship is from the time that you and your spouse get into bed until you fall asleep. You can be intentional with this time at the end of each day.

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Help Your Child Eat Healthy

Help your kids want to eat better so they’ll be prepared for a successful day.

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Why Kids Need Healthy Fats

Even when you need to cut fat from your diet, you may want to increase healthy fats in your child’s diet. Learn why.

Why Your Child Needs Water

Dehydration can be a serious problem for children, especially when they don’t recognize that they need more liquids. 

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6 Ways to Make Your Marriage Happy

Happiness is in short supply for too many couples. And the reason may be that they don’t work at it. Happiness, after all, is not something that happens; it’s something you make.

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You Can’t Give To Others What You Don’t Already Have

The great commandment teaches that self-care is not selfish — it’s actually foundational to a healthy marriage.

What does self care look like

Excellent Self-Care Requires Finding A Healthy Balance

The great commandment teaches that self-care is not selfish — it’s actually foundational to a healthy marriage.

Dietary Fats

There is a wide variety of dietary fat found in food.  Some of these fats are necessary for optimal health and others are actually detrimental to your body, so it’s wise to know the differences. 

General Dietary Guidelines

There are so many contradicting nutritional claims vying for our attention that it’s easy to be uncertain about what we should or shouldn’t eat. Fortunately, there are some guidelines we can apply to our lives with confidence.

Readiness for Kindergarten: Your Child’s Mind

How Can I Help My Child Grow Intellectually? There are so many enjoyable ways you can support your kindergartner as he acquires these new skills! You are, after all, his most important teacher. Here are some suggestions: Challenge him to find different ways that numbers are used at home. These could include telephone books, measuring …

Story: A Journey Through Chronic Illness

One woman struggles to adjust to life with chronic illness. God comforts her through His Word, rich friendships, and opens surprising new doors for ministry.

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10 Keys to a More Loving Relationship

10 keys to help make your relationship with your spouse more loving.

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Living With Chronic Pain and Illness

Chronic illnesses cause profound physical, emotional, relational and spiritual pain. Discover the keys to living well with a chronic illness.