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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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Parenting Daughters

Three Daughters and a Dad

Take steps to keep communication with your kids open and honest.

Is Your Daughter Ready to Date?

Do you want your daughter someday to marry the person for her? Set her on the road now to make healthy choices later.

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She’s Pregnant. Now What?

When your daughter breaks the news that she’s pregnant, try not to overreact. Your initial response will have a significant impact on your future relationship.

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Peer Problems

Making friends. Losing friends. Choosing the wrong friends. Sometimes things go astray with your teen’s friendships.

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Sweet and Strong-Willed

Do you have a teen who wants to make his or her own path? Here’s how one family dealt with an unconventional child.

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A Princess of Purpose

Encourage young girls to act like a daughter of the King, God’s princess, by training them in the fruit of the Spirit. 

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Does Equal Mean Identical?

As parents of teen daughters, we need to learn to affirm her value without diminishing others.

Other Rites of Passage

What is the next teachable moment or transition in your daughter’s life? How can you add affirmation and encouragement to that moment?

Rites of Passage for Your Daughter

With our words we will affect the lives of those around us as we speak blessings, not curses, into their lives.

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Ideas for Creating Traditions

Here are a few ideas real moms and dads have created to set an atmosphere where words of affirmation and moments of celebration can be shared.

Words Are Powerful

Celebrate personal moments in a powerful way that can breathe life into a young person’s heart and future!

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More Ideas for Traditions

See which of these traditions might work for your family!

Your Daughter’s Experience

Before considering how you might respond to the news that your unmarried teenager is pregnant, take a brief tour of the emotions and thought processes that are likely to be swirling through her mind and heart.