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Sleep deprived kids like this teen, require more rest

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 to our kids.

Parents bond and connect with their baby

Bonding With Your Baby

When connecting with your newborn isn’t your natural response

Teen football players tackling for the ball

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 injuries that may result in concussions.

Young child sleeping with a teddy bear. The image shows only a teddy bear's head and the arms of a child holding it under the covers.

Bedtime and Naps: Getting Them to Sleep

Consider these ideas for getting kids to go to bed and stay in bed.

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The Value of Family Movie Nights

There are ways to motivate kids toward the ideas of belief, values and character qualities without the use of physical restraints or stern parental glares.

Mom helps child build confidence by teaching him how to do laundry. The image has a little boy and his mom kneeling on the floor talking laundry out of the dryer together

Chores Help Kids Be Successful In Life

Children build their self-confidence through learning small, real life skills.

How do you find purpose after a loved one's suicide

Finding Purpose After a Loved One’s Suicide

After the death of her oldest, Paulette helped her other children take steps toward finding their own path and moving forward in their grief.

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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 come in.

What if you don't bond with your newborn right away?

When You Don’t Naturally Bond With Your Baby

Would you feel guilty if your spouse bonded more easily with your newborn than you did?

Post-holiday depression can show up as sadness felt by this woman in a holiday hat as she stares out the window at the rain.

Post-Holiday Depression: Do You Feel Depressed After the Holidays?

After the holidays, do you ever feel not like your self or even depressed? Here are some ideas to help you get back to feeling like your normal self.

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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.

Impaired driving includes teens who text at the wheel

Impaired Driving in Teens: Solutions Start With Love and Education

For parents, few things are as scary as the day we stand in the driveway and watch our teenaged children drive off in a car, alone, for the first time. But more unsettling is the first time they drive away with another teen.

Help your family make entertainment and media choices

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 about topics like entertainment?

Having dinner together as a family nourishes your child's body and soul

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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Coping With Christmas After Losing a Child

Dreading the holidays after losing a child is normal.

How can you help your child make good friends?

Help Your Child Make Good Friends

Teach children that making friends starts with being one.

Finances for teens teaches smart money habits early

Simple Keys to Launch a Financially Fit Teen

Does your teen grasp the reality of money matters? Four practical ways to get your teens financially fit

Set aside divorce differences

Set Aside Divorce Differences for the Kids

Learning how to manage Christmas after divorce can be overwhelming and devastating. Explore this story of overcoming divorce differences.

Little girl watching Wicked Part 1 eating popcorn she is mesmerized.

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.