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Intentional Parenting

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How Students Can Love Their School From Home

Even when school is out, your student can still shine Christ’s light for those at their school. Here are a few practical ways students can share God’s love with their school while at home.

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Verses of Hope and Coping Skills for Depression

Feeling depressed? Bible verses about faith and hope along with coping skills may offer help to families during the hard times of quarantine.

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly shares about asking his kids to grade his parenting. When done right, this can be a meaningful and growing experience for you and your kids.

Go Ahead – Let Your Kids Grade Your Parenting

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly shares about asking his kids to grade his parenting. When done right, this can be a meaningful and growing experience for you and your kids.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Family Close During These Challenging Times

Learning how important it is to value each other’s differences and how to bend towards strength and softness at home can help make your family time even better. With all that in mind, here are several ideas to keep your family close and grow stronger together.

Stick together as a family like this bundle of sticks.

Parenting During Coronavirus: Help Your Family Stick Together and Work Through Tough Emotions

Before we could set goals, routines, and fun activities for the weeks ahead, we needed to unpack the burdens of our hearts. We needed to remind each other that we are going to make it. My family is, and so is yours.

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Demonstrating Steadfast Love in Parenting

A solid foundation is one of the most important things a parent needs to create in a relationship with their child. Just like a tree, the roots must be set deeply in place before the trunk, branches and fruit can grow

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The Importance of Auditory Learning

Kids do not need to be auditory learners in order to benefit from this learning style. In fact, most kids tend to absorb knowledge in a variety of different ways. Weaving auditory learning into our kids’ learning is an excellent way to help them grow and thrive.

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Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Entertainment

One way to protect our kids from watching harmful things is to restrict which shows are watched by using parental controls on content streaming services. Here is a list of the top 5 streaming services and how to set up parental controls on each.

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How Do I Help My Shy Child?

Shy children leave many thoughts bottled up—thoughts that could help him or her connect with others if only they were brought out. Imagine how many incredible thoughts are not shared because of shyness!

5 Positive Effects Reading Has on Child Development

There are few things better than cuddling up with your child and a good book.

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When Helping Our Kids Doesn’t Help

Sometimes letting kids make mistakes can be the best help a parent can give.

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How to Connect with 16-18 Year Olds

As parents, we deal with the tension between providing freedom and boundaries for our teens. Focus on finding routines and habits that can help you better connect with your teens. Look out for things they enjoy or opportunities to develop a skill or interest. Finally, continue to take an interest in your teen’s interests. Ask …

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What is the Right Kind of Attention for Your Children?

Paying the right kinds of attention to your children is easier when you become more aware of each child’s personality and temperament.

Helping Kids Deal With Tragedy and Loss

A terrible accident showed the Bainter family how to help their son through tragedy and live with hope in a world where life isn’t fair.

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Guiding Your Child Through Disappointment

When life doesn’t go as planned, you can help your child gracefully move past setbacks and embrace the path God provides.

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5 Questions That Guide Your Teen’s Decisions

Teens have one foot in adolescence and the other foot in adulthood. They’re learning to make big decisions on their own, yet still require accountability and a compass that guides them in the right direction.

The Grandparent Competition

When you compete for your grandkids’ love, nobody wins

Good Parents, Prodigal Kids

Can you be such a good parent that your children won’t ever stray?

Emotionally turbulent siblings frequently are upset with one another like these sisters with arms crossed and frowns

How to Help Emotionally Turbulent Kids

Parents can empower their kids to win their struggle against their own negative emotions. Navigating emotionally turbulent kids requires your intentionality and focus on how your kids respond to difficult situations.

Remembering Your Other Children While Parenting a Prodigal

Make sure you remember to parent your other children while dealing with a prodigal child.