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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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7 Things Every Homeschooling Rookie Should Know

As a homeschooling parent, don’t be afraid to learn along with your kids.

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Your Teen’s Spiritual Gifts

Help your teens discover their spiritual gifts as a means for helping them gain direction in their life.

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25 Bible Verses for Kids to Memorize in Fun Ways

Learning Bible verses can feel daunting. How do you start and what verses should you choose? A list of 25 Bible verses for kids to memorize and suggestions on how to make it fun can get you and your family started.

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Loving Your Pregnant Teenager

Parenting your pregnant teen is a whole new level of motherhood. It can also be a deepening of your relationship.

Help your child feel loved

What You Can Do to Help Your Child Feel Loved

Most parents love their children. However, many children don’t feel loved. Perhaps parents aren’t “speaking” their child’s primary love language.

The power of a mother's love shows as this mother snuggles nose to nose with her newborn

The Power of a Mother’s Love

A mother’s love needs to be given unconditionally to establish trust and a firm foundation of emotional intimacy in a child’s life.

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Talking to Kids About Masturbation

Knowing the larger meaning and purpose of human sexuality helps us talk to our kids about masturbation.

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Six Ways to Build Your Teen’s Identity

Try these strategies to counteract culture by helping your teen develop a strong, positive identity.

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The Secret of Gratitude

The work of Christ in our lives is just plain bigger than our circumstances

When we ask our kids for forgiveness, we model a essential trait for life

Grace and Forgiveness in Parenting

Grace and forgiveness are necessary a healthy home and faith. Asking our children for forgiveness is an essential parenting trait.

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Creating Security in Difficult Times

Being honest with our children is important. Even in stressful times, it can build trust. Developing an understanding of your family’s unique fears and stresses can benefit your ability to cultivate security.

Every family needs to have a purpose

Adopting a Significant Family Purpose

Build a strong family by creating a family purpose. Everyone from the smallest to your teens will feel the unity.

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Finding Easter in Bunnies and Baskets

The Easter story can be confusing to young children. Use the things popular culture associates with Easter today to teach kids about the real meaning of Easter.

Do your children understand Easter?

Do Your Children Understand Easter?

Help your children grasp and understand the depth and importance of Easter. Use our mini-lessons to teach them certain aspects about Easter.

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Those Clumsy Middle-school Years

Middle schoolers can be clumsy. Here is a way to help your child through those awkward growth spurts.

When to play video games? Two kids, a brother and sister about eight years old sitting on a couch playing video games. Both kids have a big smile on their face.

When Should Kids Play Video Games?

Answering the question of when should kids play video games can be tricky. Remember to maintain positive communication with your kid as you provide boundaries and expectations.

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What Parents Should Know about the Metaverse

The metaverse presents an interesting situation for parents. With its introduction, the line between real and virtual is growing blurrier by the day. That’s why it’s important for parents to have a good understanding of boundaries for your family.

Choosing a Home-School Curriculum

Where do you start the home-schooling experience? How do you keep from being overwhelmed by it?

When your remarriage affects your kids, discuss it with them and spend times with them.

How Remarriage Affects Kids

Because Mike and I were widowed, not divorced, we thought we’d found the easy button for blending families: no joint-custody or child-support hassles.

The power of a mother's love shows as this mother snuggles nose to nose with her newborn

The Power of a Mother’s Love

A mother’s love needs to be given unconditionally to establish trust and a firm foundation of emotional intimacy in a child’s life.