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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

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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Blessing Your Children

When you bless your children, you reinforcing your children’s worth.

Finding Goodness

Can kids be good on their own? Show them what goodness really is with these age-appropriate activities.

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When Teens Lose Hope

If your teens seem depressed or hopeless and you worry that their actions may lead to self-harm, here are some ideas for bringing hope into their situation.

When Bob Became Dad

Patience helped one man earn a place in his stepdaughter’s heart.

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Cultivate Compassion in Your Kids

You can help your kids see the value of the overlooked and unloved. Explore how you can develop and grow your child’s capacity for compassion in their relationships and friendships.

The Super Power of Real Heroes

Encourage your super-hero-loving kids in pointing to real-life individuals who have made an impact in history and today. 

Toddler- and Baby-Proofing

Are your little ones getting into everything? Here are a couple of ideas to help you safely get your toddlers through this active stage of exploration.

Connect on Their Terms

Making time for your teen’s interests, even when it’s inconvenient, is important in your ongoing relationship.

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Connecting With Your Emotional Teens

When you have an emotional teen, there are three things that your teen may need from you.

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What Do Teens Really Want?

Learn what teens most value. It may surprise you!

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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.

Encouraging Your Child’s Smarts

Learn about eight “smarts” that will help you recognize your children’s interests and abilities and help you strengthen them.

Watching Out for Your Teen

Find tangible ways to let your teens know how you pray for them.

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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.

Terrible Teens?

Are the teen years always terrible? Get some practical advice from an experienced parent who didn’t think so.

Do the Inconvenient

Sacrificing convenience — sometimes that’s how God uses parents to help draw others closer to Jesus.

From Pen Pals to Friends

Two girls formed a bond that spanned the miles — a bond that knew no bounds when one girl fell ill. Their friendship, a connection started through Clubhouse’s pen pal program, became a godsend for their families when crisis hit.

Early Learning Fun

Parents can begin early learning activities with their toddlers as part of everyday play.

The Real Mission of Jesus

As your teens prepare to enter the world, help them recognize the real mission that Jesus modeled for us.

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Seeing the Man in Your Son

What growing boys need from their moms can be summed up in one word: respect.