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Sleep-Deprived Kids Need More Rest
Bring your teens back to life by helping them get more rest.
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Parenting Tips for Guiding Your Kids in the Digital Age
Whether it’s emerging AI, gaming, social media, smartphones, music apps or video streaming, the pull of technology is very real…
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How To Get Your Kids Talking
As a parent, you know each child is different. Some are talkative, some are not. For children to communicate well,…
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Burn the Ships: Not Looking Back and Learning How to Overcome Disappointment
When we were young boys living in Australia, our dad was a concert promoter. On one particular tour he lost…
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What Parents Need to Know About Concussions
Physical activity is important to healthy child development but parents need to know how to prevent and respond to head…
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What If My Kid Doesn’t Want to Go to Summer Camp?
New experiences like summer camp can bring a flurry of powerful emotions for your child. Learn how to help your…
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Chores Help Kids Be Successful In Life
Children build their self-confidence through learning small, real life skills.
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Teach Kids About Money
Learn what to do to teach your kids about their finances, your giving of allowances and more.
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Dinner: Nourish Your Family … As a Family
There's plenty of evidence that making dinner together a family priority is definitely worth the effort.
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Is Your Daughter A Mean Girl?
Some are calling this breed the "New American Girl." She's more physical, not afraid to be aggressive or go after…
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How to Raise Strong and Confident Daughters
When your daughter recognizes that you believe in her, she begins to believe in herself, and has confidence to pursue…
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How to Know if Your Child is Depressed or Suicidal
Having child who is depressed or suicidal is the frightening reality of too many parents today. However, there is hope…
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A Parent’s Guide to Marijuana and Marijuana Use
Marijuana continues to grow as a socially and legally accepted drug. Read our parent's guide to marijuana to help in…
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How to Handle Stress in Your Children
While the cause of stress in your children depends on a variety of influences, you can provide hope and support…
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Getting Back to Normal: Changing Your Mindset
These 3 steps can help you change your mindset following the COVID-19 pandemic and start getting back to a more…
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Grief and Loss: Knowing When Kids Need to Talk
Take the time to help your children process worry, grief and loss
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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…
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9 Ways to Help Children Cope with a Father’s Death
If you know a boy or girl who has dealt with a father’s death, whether recently or some time ago,…
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Understanding the Myths of Gender Identity and Transgenderism
Male and female are not what we feel we are, but what we actually are. Help your kids sort the…
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What Do I Do When My Daughter Starts Her Period?
My preteen daughter started her period. What should I do now? How do I approach this conversation with her?
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Before Talking About Sex: Dealing With Our Past
The first step in raising our children to honor their sexuality is to come to terms with our own.
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The Reasoning for Using Anatomically Correct Terms With Your Kids
Using nickname to describe areas of the body isn't necessarily wrong. But there's a better path to set your kids…
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Scriptures About Beauty and Appearance
Enjoy reading key Scripture verses that relate to appearance and beauty with your child.
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Preventing Child Sexual Exploitation Today
Do America’s children need a fully-equipped rescue team to combat child sexual exploitation? Tim Tebow says yes. Here's why.
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Helping Kids Stand Firm While Navigating the Ever-Changing Landscape of Transgenderism
There is a crucial shift in youth culture, and Christian teens need to understand transgenderism as well as how to…
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How to Help Girls with a Cybersex Addiction
Girls who struggle with pornography will find hope and healing as they learn how to get out of a cybersex…
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When Someone Has “Different Pronouns”: Explaining LGBT Pronoun Usage to our Kids
Learn how to address and answer your child's questions about LGBT pronoun usage. Then, cultivate healthy conversations about how to…
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Wicked Part 1: Navigating Magic and Witchcraft in Movies
One of the biggest entertainment questions we get at Plugged In is the intersection of magic and witchcraft.
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Advent for Your Kids
Advent is a fun, faith-filled way to keep the family focused on Jesus throughout Christmas. Learn how to make Advent…
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Why Does God Allow Suffering?
To answer the question: Why does God allow suffering?, you and your children will need some logic, communication, and patience,…
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Faith Grows in Hard Places — Even for Kids
Help kids see that God works through pain and suffering in their and other people's lives.
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Educating Churches
Helping churches include special needs ministry
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What Parents Can Learn from Jesus’ Interactions with Children
Throughout scripture, Jesus treats children with radical care and love to indicate how deeply He values them. It’s no wonder…
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Help Kids Recognize Their Identity in Christ
Teach your kids that Jesus did for us what we could never do for ourselves: He measured up.
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Public Reading of Scripture With Your Kids
If the practice of public reading of Scripture with your family sounds good to you, you may be wondering how…
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Do Your Children Know How to Draw Close to God Through Prayer?
Unanswered questions about prayer may cause kids to have misconceptions. We can help correct those misunderstandings as we teach our…
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TikTok’s Effects on Kids: What Parents Need to Know
TikTok has become a cornerstone of social media for kids and teens, but its impact goes far beyond viral dances…
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Tech Trends: Protecting Kids from Social Media Harm
Teenagers know social media is a problem. What they don't know is how to live without it. That's where you…
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Tech Trends: What Parents Need to Know About TikTok Alternatives
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few months, you already know that Congress voted in favor of…
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Instill Biblical Principles for Entertainment and Media Choices
The Bible is full of passages to help us navigate the culture. How can you help your children think biblically…
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What Age Should My Kid Get a Cell Phone?
The purpose for having a phone contract is to make sure everyone in the family is on the same page…
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Netflix: How to Use Your Parental Controls
We can't always trust they are watching something wholesome.
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Should My Child Have Social Media?
"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it…
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Tech Trends: Should I Get My Kid a Phone for Christmas?
There's a lot of peer pressure to have a phone as young eight years old. Before you buy you buy…
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10 Things to Know About Bullying and Cyberbullying
No matter what form bullying or cyberbullying takes, it happens far too often and can have damaging effects.
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Jim Daly Intro to StagesDr. Huerta “What’s So Amazing” (Stage 9-12)Dr. Paul Reisser “What to Expect” (Stage 9-12)Helping My Tween Enter The Chaos Of The Teen Years – Dr. Ken WilgusHow To Teach Your Daughters to Find Healthy Friendships – Terra MattsonHow Parents Can Model Healthy Friendships – Terra MattsonHow To Help Our Daughters to Live Out Their Faith – Terra MattsonResponding to Out Kids’ Mistakes – Terra MattsonTeaching Daughters to Be Gracious in a Confusing Culture – Terra MattsonTeaching Daughters to Accept God’s Grace – Terra MattsonResponding to the Lies Daughters Believe – Terra MattsonReframing Words to Encourage Daughters – Terra MattsonBuilding Trust & Modeling Grace – Terra MattsonTeaching Daughters to Process Their Emotions – Terra Mattson
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