Parenting

I hope these lessons will help you as you embark on yet another summer of long, monotonous days. Here are a few parenting tips to help your bored teen stay motivated and busy this summer.

With summer vacations looking a little different this year, infusing new energy into playtime – and making it a family affair – can turn time at home into a fun “staycation.”
Help battle boredom and get the whole family involved with these fun and engaging activities

Between school, work and entertainment, it can seem like your family's faces are glued to the screen!  Technology is fine, but your children also need some stretches of unplugged learning and fun. 

Here are some tips for creating non-screen fun as a family.

For those of us who have lost our moms, Mother’s Day can be a sad day; especially if we focus on what we’ve lost rather than remembering all we’ve gained from their influence.  So, when Mother’s Day comes around, rather than concentrate on loss, we can choose to celebrate our mother’s lives in ways they would have appreciated.

Here are 10 ways to honor your mother’s memory on Mother’s Day....

for King & Country's Joel and Luke Smallbone have dedicated this song to their "Mum", for all her sacrifices and hard work, to ensure that her kids - Joel, Luke, as well as sister Rebecca St. James - could have a better life. 
This one's for you, Mum!!
Grab your tissues!

After singing at church, this family’s car was destroyed by a drunk driver. Miraculously, all family members survived.
See how God picked this family back up and saw them through healing and doubt, to give them a life-changing ministry to others.

Having a child is a rich blessing that lasts a lifetime. Becoming a mother is worth more than all the money in the world. But in the case of Brenda Gomez Hernandez, she was doubly blessed!  This mom gives birth to a baby and becomes a lottery winner, all on the same day!

How can you raise kids who aren’t always asking for more?  How can you raise a generous child who is not following the lead of this world?

Here are 4 important guidelines that will help...

Tired of the same old junk Hollywood keeps giving us? Here’s a simple solution. Find a kid, and let them write the script. Have their parents act it out. Dub the kids’ voices over their parents. You’ve got a (cute hilarious) cinematic masterpiece! Guaranteed.

Young children grow by discovering their world – a real three-dimensional world – not a flat screen of pixels.

Your kids’ gaming behavior can either bring peace to the household, or a never-ending string of arguments, especially at the call for dinner. How do you keep the peace?

We all know the drill: the door slams in the carpool pickup lane and your child buckles in. “How was school?” you ask. And the answer… “Okay.” The conversation is dead before it starts.

Here are some thoughtful questions you can ask that won't get one-word answers. 

Like poison kills a person, poisonous words kill the spirit and soul of a person.  Regardless of your age, what would you not want to hear your parents say to you?  Here are 10 things not to say to your adult children.....

Tragically, three young siblings lost their parents in the span of just a few months. And that’s when the community “swarmed in” to act as the hands and feet of Christ for this Midwestern family!

With doctor's appointments, an expanding abdomen, and ultrasounds, the focus of baby's development is on her physical growth. But just as her body grows daily in your womb, so her spirit is growing and developing. 

Here's a short list of scriptures that will encourage a pregnant mother. They demonstrate the God has His mighty hand on your baby while she is in the womb.

Stepparenting is not something that is on anyone's bucket list. When we envision our future as children, we don't see remarriage, blended family, or stepparenting on the agenda.

So how do we parent a child that we are not biologically connected to? How do we love them like our own? How do we connect with them on the deepest level possible? Here are 5 ideas for bonding with your stepchild...

We aspire to be the Pinterest perfect mama: daily creating tasty organic meals while keeping a tidy house, but motherhood is anything but perfect.

If you feel powerless as a mom, I’d like to offer you 3 things to remember when you are spending time in the trenches....

As this dad sings to his newborn – a song praising God’s goodness – the miracle baby raises his tiny hand in worship. And it’s such a touching moment!

No marriage is perfect, especially a Christian marriage. Even if it’s a second matrimonial go-around and the rules of engagement should be mastered by now, marriage is still hard. 

When normal concern for our children crosses the line into chronic worry, anxiety, or fear, we are not trusting God to care for what He has entrusted us with, and we are also damaging our relationships with our children.

You can overcome this debilitating habit with these five tips to stop chronic worry over your children....