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6 Things To Do With Teenagers To Love Them W...
Knowing what to do with teenagers to tighten your bond isn’t always easy. But teens don’t need us less as they get older … just differently.
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When Peer Pressure Starts Too Soon
Peer pressure can be subtle. Other times your child's friend sports a Michael Kors bag. Or their second grade class splits into boyfriend-girlfriend duos.
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I Couldn’t Believe My Husband Said That!
Later that night I told my husband thank you. “What you did this afternoon changed our whole day. Thanks for saying what you said and doing what you did.”
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5 Things Millennial Parents Are Doing Better...
Research shows millennials may be the most family-oriented generation in the last 50 years. Millennial parents are changing the norm to raise healthy kids.
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Teaching Respect: 8 Tips for a Snark-free Su...
Requiring respect is a gift we give our kids (and ourselves!). But in a parenting age aiming to be gentler and more aware of kids’ emotions, it's not easy.
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Teaching Our Teenage Girls the Truth of Soci...
Unlike the advice of Teen Vogue that robs teenage girls of their value, true advocacy and social responsibility should be in God-glorifying ways.
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‘Audrey and John Sitting in a Tree ...
My son's first day of first grade introduction worksheet: What do you like to do with your friends? His answer, in wonderfully legible pencil: Chase girls.
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When Your 18 Summers Are Up
Right now there’s a mom whose 18 summers are up with her child.18 sounded plenty when empty sippy cups scattered the backseat. Now 18 doesn't feel enough.
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Sleepovers—Bad Idea or No Big Deal?
Spending the night with friends seems like a normal part of growing up. But my wife and I wonder: should we let our kids go to a sleepover?
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7 Do’s and Don’ts for Parents of Gra...
For 18 years, you have parented through a maze of joys, laughter, confusion, and even bruises. Now your child is a graduate. You have big changes ahead.
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Are We Pushing Our Kids too Hard?
My kids need to see that their value isn’t tied to their grades or what school accepts them. I need to encourage them to follow God’s design and purpose for their lives and not insist they conform to a specific formula for success.
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5 Reasons Your Preteen Needs You
Children this age are unique because they still invite participation and closeness with parents—an attitude that will be changing soon.
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Negotiating Parental Leave for the Working M...
Who is responsible for making ends meet when a new baby joins a family – the new parents, their employers, or the government?
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When to Tell Your Kids About Your Past
How much should you tell your kids about the mistakes you've made in the past? Pastor Drew Hill believes parents should unveil some of the ugliness in our lives ... to show what God has done.
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Three Times a Day to Intentionally Connect W...
Consider mornings, mealtimes and bedtime as opportunities for making a heart connection with your child. And trust that God, in His sovereignty, will fill the gaps in between.
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Smartphones for Smartfamilies
We advise against giving your children a phone if you are not ready to have a conversation with them about it multiple times a week for multiple years.
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Questions to Ask Your Teen About LGBT Issues
A list of questions to help you engage your teens about their beliefs on LGBT issues.
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Preparing Your Teen for LGBT Discussions
Five steps to prepare them to withstand peer pressure, stand with the truth, and display the love of Christ.
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Establishing Dating Guidelines for Your Teen
What role should parents play to steer a child away from the traps in the most popular sport for many teens—the dating game?
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Helping Your Teenage Daughter Become a Woman
Here are five questions to consider as you seek to help your daughter grow in godliness.
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5 Strategies to Win the Battle for Your Teen...
The arsenal of weapons employed against this generation of teens is unmatched in human history.
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Even Toddlers Can Memorize Scripture
If toddlers can memorize favorite songs and stories, why not help them learn the Word of God?
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Should You Provide a Financial Bailout for Y...
Before you rush to fix your child's problem, ask yourself whether you are truly helping him or her.
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30 Tips for Raising Middle Schoolers
Quick advice regarding various areas of your child’s life.
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Q&A: Should Children See Parents Argue?
Kids learn how to resolve conflict by watching us do it.
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Setting Boundaries for Your Teens
Helping your children learn to live within limits.
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Setting Standards for Your Family About Subs...
Form convictions that you can hold with integrity as you shape the life of your child.
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Potty Training a Strong-Willed Child
You must set the rules and the boundaries, not your toddler.
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Q&A: Babysitter Blues
How can we break our 3-year-old of throwing tantrums when the sitter comes over?
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How Do I Teach My Kids to Handle Peer Pressu...
Dennis and Barbara Rainey, parenting, ages and stages, teens
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4 Countercultural Tips on Dating
Few things occupy the hearts and minds of modern young people more than dating relationships. Having a boyfriend or girlfriend strokes a lot of core needs. First, it strokes the need for significance. You can almost hear the cry for validation when you hear a teenage person say, “You’ll never guess who I dated this summer …” You feel […]
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Freedom: The Teen Addiction
Learn why freedom is so important to teens and how to help them channel that freedom without causing a revolution.
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Helping Your Child Resist Peer Pressure
In order to teach our children, we parents must embrace three core convictions.
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Helping Your Child Set Wise Standards on Sub...
There are three critical tasks that parents must personally embrace before helping their children.
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Warning: Tween With an Attitude!
God used this volatile time in my daughter's life to teach me a lesson, too.
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’13 Reasons Why’ and the Tragedy...
The popular Netflix series seeks to address a worthy issue, but it has some troubling flaws.
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4 Reasonable Concerns About ‘13 Reasons Wh...
Observations about the Netflix series from a junior high teacher.
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Do You Know What Your Kids Are Up To?
Your kids need you to hold them accountable in the area of dating.
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The Tidal Wave of Media and Todays Teens
Since we live in a media-driven world, how can we stay on top of the media?
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Driving Privileges and Your Teen
Four lessons from a mom and dad who have been there.
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Protecting Your Teen From the Busyness Trap
Children must be taught that cutting others down in any way is repulsive because every person is made in the image of God.
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Conquering Cut-Downs Between Your Children
Children must be taught that cutting others down in any way is repulsive because every person is made in the image of God.
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Before the Hormones Hit
Don't waste the incredible opportunity you have during the "golden years" to prepare your children for adolescence.
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Avoiding the Stampede
Steering clear of peer pressure can keep your standards from being trampled.
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Becoming a Cyber Savvy Parent
Your kids know all about the latest phone and internet technologies. So do pornographers. Donna Rice Hughes talks about the importance of protecting your children.
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Be the Man, Gods Man
A special blessing to my sons and son-in-law.
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10 Ways Parents Embarrass Their Teens
How to prove to your kids that you're not weird.
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Adolescence—Are You Ready for the Tough Qu...
A survey in a teen Sunday school class reveals a desire to know the honest truth.
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Are You a Relentless Parent?
Raising teenagers means pursuing their heart even when they don’t demonstrate love in return.
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Building Integrity Into the Life of Your Tee...
Shaping your child’s convictions about deceit begins as you teach him to fear God.
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Guiding Your Child Through Peer Pressure
Many parents make the mistake of releasing their kids to make their own choices at the very time when they are most tempted to follow the crowd.
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Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of Adoles...
Many parents make the mistake of releasing their kids to make their own choices at the very time when they are most tempted to follow the crowd.
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How to Ruin Your Teens for Life
Eleven ways to ensure that your teenager will not be prepared for the future.
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Lessons From the Rainey Game Preserve
As a parent you do need to set some limits.
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Becoming Small
There is beauty in learning to let go of your adult children.
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Was It Time to Say No?
A mother's difficult decision about her married daughter.
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