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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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One Single Dad’s Story

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

Readiness for Kindergarten: Your Child’s Mind

How Can I Help My Child Grow Intellectually? There are so many enjoyable ways you can support your kindergartner as he acquires these new skills! You are, after all, his most important teacher. Here are some suggestions: Challenge him to find different ways that numbers are used at home. These could include telephone books, measuring …

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Kindergarten Readiness: Reading

Here are some enjoyable activities you can do with your child to help prepare her for kindergarten.

First-Time Expectant Parents

If you and your spouse are expecting your first baby, you will face a lot of challenges. But it will all be worth it.

Young, pensive girl looking up at her mom who’s holding a briefcase and dressed professionally, as if she’s leaving for work

Embracing Your Version of Motherhood

There is room for all of us, and we need to come alongside each other. We are not only our roles: wife, mother, employee, stay-at-home parent. We are the fullness of who God made us to be.

Young, smiling father balancing his toddler daughter who’s sitting on the edge of his desk

What Options Does Your Family Have?

Today’s family has expanded options for making ends meet and nurturing family life.

The “Babymoon”

One way to stay connected during pregnancy.

Finding Purpose in Everyday Life

Family is important, but have you ever wondered how you reflect its importance as you live out your life day to day?

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My Toddler Doesn’t Obey

It’s important for your disobedient child to know two important facts: 1) You love him unconditionally; and 2) You are in charge — and he isn’t.

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Hard Prayers to Pray for Your Kids

God wants only the best for us, and He allows us to experience Him more fully and be a part of what He is doing when we pray from an eternal perspective.

The Sacrifices Moms Make

Every day we change the course of the future because we influence our children in their faith and walk.

Young father affectionately resting his hand on and kissing his baby’s forehead as he gives the boy his feeding bottle

First-Time Dads: Learning From Your Father’s Mistakes

Despite good intentions, all men make mistakes that affect their kids. It is wise to consider what we’ve learned from our dad, and how it may influence our own fathering.

Practice Makes … Parenting

A little boy with an uncertain future needs a ‘forever family.’

Conversation: Give Your Child an Identity

Great relationships aren’t built of laws or rigid rules, but of vulnerable communication, honesty, healthy conflicts, order and direction.

Repetition and Blessing

Parents need to continually repeat the basic truths of God to our children.

Adoption Options

Adoption options include domestic foster care, domestic infant, international, open, closed and embryo.

Defining Success as a Parent

Get into the mind-set that everything you do as a parent ultimately is part of validating or nurturing your children.

Rites of Passage for Your Daughter

With our words we will affect the lives of those around us as we speak blessings, not curses, into their lives.

Siblings’ Needs

Spending one-on-one time with each of your children

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Ideas for Creating Traditions

Here are a few ideas real moms and dads have created to set an atmosphere where words of affirmation and moments of celebration can be shared.