| Family |
A Date With Dad
Most kids grow up knowing Dad is a pretty busy guy. Your daughter needs to know the sacrifice you've made in your priority list; making sure she comes up No. 1. (ages 4-18) |
Are Christian Fathers Better Fathers?
W. Bradford Wilcox studied fathers of children 5 to 18 years old. Evangelical Protestant dads came out on top or near the top in every category compared to fathers from other denominations and those with no religious affiliation. (ages 4-18) |
The Influence of Fathers
Research shows that tweens and teens need the firm leadership a father provides. Kids learn from watching their fathers’ decisions and listening to logical explanations. (ages 4-18) |
Untangling The Fishing Line
Geoff Moore suggests taking your kids fishing. "I guarantee you'll see things in your children that you desperately want to see..." (ages 0-18) |
How to Use Parenting
Moments
Becoming a better steward of your parenting moments can help your children
know that they’re loved. (ages 5-13) |
Effective Co-Parenting
At a minimum, biological parents who have divorced should contain their
anger and conflict in order to cooperate and compromise on issues of the
children’s welfare. (ages 5-13) |
Taming
the Tattletale
Parents often pardon rather than correct the tattler simply because they do
not know how to deal with the issue. (ages 5-13) |
Dialogue — The Key to Family Harmony
Great parenting calls for a lot of talk between parents and kids. But day-to-day conversation can easily omit some of the most important areas of life. What’s needed is more dialogue.
(ages 3-17) |
Invade Your Teens’ World
Without Invading Their Space
To affect the life of a modern teen, just step into his world, show you
care and be a role model.
(ages 12-17) |
Holidays and Sibling
Rivalry — Minimize Competition
While sibling rivalry cannot be entirely eliminated, Dr. James Dobson
offers ways to reduce the extent of it over the holiday season. (ages
3-12) |
Holidays and Kids — Maintain
Control
Lisa Whelchel offers creative discipline techniques to reduce the stress
of the holidays.
(ages 3-12) |
Understanding Reactive
Attachment Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a psychological impairment that
forms early in life when a child does not bond with his caregiver. Treatment
of the disorder is slow and difficult, but healing is possible.
(ages 0-8) |
Thinking About Adoption?
Couples considering adoption have a number of options available to research
and evaluate.
(ages 0-12) |
Stay Close to Your Child
Many forces in our culture seek to drive parents and children apart.
(ages 0-12) |
Helping Children Survive Divorce
As a single parent, you may already be reeling from
your own losses. So how can you help your children as
they work through the heartbreak of divorce?
(ages 5-12) |
Single Dads Raising Daughters
For a single dad, raising a daughter can
feel like treading on foreign soil. This father shares
some helpful tools for navigating this new land.
(ages 3-12) |
You Can Survive the Stormy Teen Years
Adolescence is a fascinating and crazy time of life. It reminds me of
the early space probes that blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
(ages 10-16) |
Single Grandparents Share Secrets for Success
Single grandparents all over the country are
raising their children’s children. While it’s not an easy
task, it can be done!
(ages 3-12) |
The Rewards of Spending
More Time with Your Children
Nothing can match the joy, delight and contentment of spending time with
our children. (ages 0-12) |
What
to Tell Your Children about Love,
Sex and Relationships
The early years are very important
in laying
a foundation of healthy sexuality for your
kids. (ages 0-7) |
Why Kids Need Their Grandparents
Grandparents teach your children things that you can’t or don’t have time to — and they connect them in a special way. (ages 0-12) |
The Angry Child
Understanding the causes of anger will better help you guide your child in harnessing this potentially destructive emotion. (ages 3-12) |
Bless Your Children
Do your children feel your love? Many kids hurt because they sense that their parents don’t even like them. (ages 0-12) |
Expecting Twins?
Are you expecting twins? Triplets? Quads? Quints or more? Being the mother of multiple babies is both rewarding and challenging. (ages 0-1) |
Teaching Kids to Be Kind
There are steps we can take to help children be kind to their teachers, siblings and friends. (ages 3-12) |
Smart Stepparenting
Parent-stepparent harmony is the crux of successful parenting within your home. The two most critical relationships in any stepfamily home are the marriage and the stepparent-stepchildren relationships. (ages 0-12) |
Parenting Insights
You can build a closer relationship with your children by first identifying their unique, God-given strengths, as well as your own. Try using an assessment tool that has proved helpful to thousands of families! (ages 3-12) |
Relating to Teens
Considering how the world has changed, it is doubly important to build relationships with our kids and work through conflicts. (ages 12-17) |
Understanding Your Teen and Letting Go
It’s impossible to comprehend a teenager’s mind without understanding the role of power in his school life and at home. (ages 12-17) |
Teaching Children to Be Peacemakers
You can teach your children how to resolve conflicts among themselves or with their friends and other people they know. Here are 12 key principles that young peacemakers need to learn. (ages 6-12) |
How to Help Your Child Grieve
Death is an ever-present fact of life, yet even adults face it only with difficulty. Here are some tips to help your children through the grieving process. (ages 4-12) |
Relating to Your Middle-Schooler
How can you learn to enjoy (or at least understand) the unique senses of humor that middle-schoolers possess? (ages 11-14) |
Sharing Is More Fun
Does your little one rule over her toys like a tiny Napoleon? Do other moms bring their children to your house wearing helmets? If so, your child probably has a problem with sharing. (ages 2-7) |
Make Room for Baby
Many children feel threatened when a new baby arrives and becomes the center of attention. (ages 2-8) |
The Value of Full-Time Moms
Motherhood is a gift and a season of life to treasure. If you’re a mom, you can stand with dignity, offer no apology for what you do, and say, “I’m a wife and mother. I love my job.” (ages 0-12) |
Help for Angry Moms
When anger gets out of control in a mother-child relationship, it can cause serious damage. Julie Ann Barnhill gives humorous, practical advice for moms who want to change how they handle their anger. (ages 0-12) |
Little Ways to Express Love
Although we spend most of our time feeding, clothing and caring for our children, they often don’t realize that we do these things because we love them. (ages 0-12) |
The Mom You’re Meant to Be
Cheri Fuller wants moms to have the confidence and support they need to connect with their kids. The process starts when parents begin to understand their children and value them for who they are. (ages 0-12) |
Friends and Society |
When Your Child Is Wounded
At any age your child may come under attack from one or more children
at school or in your neighborhood. (ages 3-16) |
Teaching Kids to Be Kind
There are steps we can take to help children be kind to their teachers, siblings and friends. (ages 3-12) |
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Being a good neighbor will make your neighborhood a better place for you and your children to live. (ages 3-12) |
Home — The Place to Be
You can have a positive influence on your child’s social circle by making your house one of the best places to be in the neighborhood. Here are some ideas for transforming your home into a favorite hangout. (ages 4-12) |
Healthy Friendships
Parents play a crucial part in teaching their children how to develop and maintain healthy friendships. (ages 4-12) |
Friendly Competition
What was once pure sport played for fun has too often morphed into overzealous parents’ version of the mini-minor leagues. (ages 8-12) |
Talking with Your Hands
Do you have a deaf son or daughter at home? Or does one of your children need to communicate better with a deaf friend? This article on sign language was written especially for kids. Share it with them! (ages 7-12) |
Teaching
Children About Race
Plant healthy seeds in the tender soil
of your child’s heart, building respect
toward others. (ages 3-12) |
Helping Your Child Value Others
Teaching your children to demonstrate value toward others is a vital step in developing key virtues, including self-control, compassion and benevolence. (ages 4-12) |
When Your Child Is Bullied
As a parent, there are four ways you can provide support to your child when he is being bullied. (ages 4-12) |
