The holidays can be a stressful time. Here are 5 ways to overcome holiday stress this year.
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A last wish, a willing heart, and a little time together have bonded my blended family.
One of the biggest misperceptions about Christianity is that it’s simply about acting right. When Christian parents overemphasize their child’s behavior rather than their heart, the real message they send often has more shame than love. As secular opinions continue to reject biblical standards, many Christians struggle to discern what their response should be to …
To the 2020 Moms,You did it. You had your baby during a worldwide pandemic and shutdown. You attended birthing classes via Zoom. You delivered and trusted your newborn with people whose faces you still haven’t seen. You navigated an ever-changing school format with your kids. You became a teaching assistant, substitute teacher, teacher, principal, and …
Every person has a story – and that story matters! Sharing our stories with our families and others around us can be a powerful way to share our faith and encourage others in their own lives.
Families who have fostered or adopted a child need the love and support of other families in the community around them. It’s critical to support these foster and adoptive families for the family to succeed and thrive in the faces of these new joys and challenges. Here are 7 ways to support a foster or …
When your family is broken, the holidays hurt. Here are three ways single parents can cope during the holiday season.
For the sake of your blended family, don’t give up! Learn how to create new memories, when you don’t get the luxury of old traditions.
Creating expectations of how life should go can open our hearts up to disappointment. However, if we live with anticipation and expectancy of what is to come, and what God is doing in our lives, we can experience greater joy in the journey.
Peer pressure is real. Help your kids spot peer pressure, gain tools to deal with it, and be strong enough to deal with someone’s reaction to hearing “no.”