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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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Kid-Business Brainstorming

Guide your child toward home business success

New Dad Bonding

Don’t panic, if you’re a new dad! You will bond and feel more at ease with their new little one, in time.

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How Does Your Child Relate to Others?

By understanding your children’s “love style,” you can help your kids develop healthy emotional connections with others.

Beat Summer Learning Loss

Encourage your kids to actively learn and engage their brains during the summer months so they’ll be ready for the rigors of school in the fall.

Money-Savvy Kid

When your tweens want money to buy extras, you can encourage them to find opportunities for earning money.

28 Things You’ll Wish You Packed for Your Cruise

Are you thinking about taking a family cruise? If so, don’t forget to pack these 28 items that aren’t always found on packing lists.

Staycation: 7 Cabin Fever Rescues

When cabin fever strikes during your next staycation, here’s a list of ideas to keep your kids entertained, instead of restless and bored. 

Staycation: Family Field Trips

What can you do on a staycation? If there’s one way to cement a meaningful learning experience in the hearts and minds of children, it’s field trips. As in, family field trips. Enrich your family time with low-cost, educational opportunities. 

Why Easter Matters

Why Does Easter Matter? – A Tony Evans Easter Sermon

Your child can have a more complete understanding of what Christ’s death and resurrection have already accomplished through your teaching them these four truths about Christ’s sacrifice.

Two-and-a-Half Hours With Audrey

Celebrating life in the shadow of death

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Stretching Their Limits

Encourage your teens to test boundaries in positive ways.

The First Weeks Home After an Adoption

It takes time, flexibility and a whole lot of love to help a child adapt to a new family.

Welcome to the Middle School Zone

Your child is changing. Is your parenting?

When Adopted Kids Need More Than a Parent’s Love

I remember thinking, All kids need is a little love. Now after adopting six children from foster care, I realize how naïve my words were.

Fair Does Not Mean Equal: Discipline in adoptive families

One family reveals how they helped their biological child understand discipline differences after adopting an older child.

Illustration of a young girl arranging pillows on her bed

Teaching Kids Life Skills

Are your kids ready for the real world? What are the basics that you’d like your children to know before they left home?

Romantic Comedy: No Laughing Matter

Is infatuation equal to love? Help your kids understand that a strong feeling of physical attraction is not the primary indicator that a person is in love.

Helping Kids Accept and Enjoy Who They Are

Do your tweens struggle to understand and appreciate their identity? Help them grow in the confidence of who they are by being their sounding board instead of their boss, as they sort through, discover and learn to appreciate their own unique identity.

Life Happens in the Kitchen

Invite your children to do life with you in the kitchen, and you might be surprised at the communication that takes place.

One Single Dad’s Story

When Don lost his wife to cancer, he was left to raise his 8-year-old daughter alone.