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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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Motivate Your Kids to Read Today

In today’s culture, reading is one way to help your kids attain more academically. Here are some ideas to create a culture of reading in your home.

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5 Lessons Parents Can Learn from the Wild Robot

The Wild Robot from Universal’s DreamWorks Animation is not just the year’s best animated movie: It’s one of 2024’s best movies, period. Based on a novel by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot is a moving tour de force of animated artistry. Some of the images will stick with you long after the credits roll, and …

Building character in your princess. Daddy bowing to his little girl as he begins dancing with his daughter dressed in a pretty pink princess dress.

Building Character in Your Princess

Without parental guidance, our daughters may only notice the external beauty of princesses in books and movies, and not the valuable character qualities that will make them true leaders.

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Boundaries with Teens: The Key to Freedom

Equipping your teen with inner strength and a sense of responsibility can feel overwhelming. Learn more about how to build healthy boundaries for your teen concerning their increasing freedom.

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Working Outside the Home

Men and women who had stay-at-home-moms are more likely to assume their family will be the same. Likewise, individuals who had working moms may see it as completely normal and reasonable for the mom to return to work.

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Help Your Kid Start A Business

Use these ideas to encourage your child’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Flexible thinking is a valuable life skill for children. This little girl is leaning on a wall thinking deeply

Raising Flexible Thinkers

Help your child cultivate flexible thinking as a valuable life skill

Raise children to be involved citizens who participate in their community

Raise Your Child to Be an Engaged Citizen

Five ways to model social involvement for the next generation

Is talking about sex with your child difficult?

Before Talking About Sex: Dealing With Our Past

The first step in raising our children to honor their sexuality is to come to terms with our own.

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Why Should I Vote?

Should I vote? American liberties are based on Christian principles. As Christians, we teach our children to be enthusiastic citizens.

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Why Teens Are Attracted to Wicca

Talk with teens about their attraction to Wicca.

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Become a Prayer Warrior for Your Child Like Hannah

Hannah’s heartfelt prayer for a child inspires us today to be prayer warriors.

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Encourage Your Child’s Faith

Get a number of ideas about how to help your child’s budding faith grow every day.

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How Parents Can Model Healthy Sexual Behavior for Kids

Because our children develop over time, there’s encouragement that change for the better is always possible. Now is a great time to consider several key issues, and make any revisions that will strengthen your family.

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Magic in Media: Harmless Fantasy?

Understanding our children’s mental and spiritual development plays an important role in how they will interpret the worldview presented in today’s media.

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Do Your Children Know How to Draw Close to God Through Prayer?

Unanswered questions about prayer may cause kids to have misconceptions. We can help correct those misunderstandings as we teach our kids how to draw closer to God through prayer.

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How To Encourage and Motivate Your Teen

Your job is now to pinpoint your teen’s interests and natural abilities to help your child grow in the direction that God made him or her.

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Avoid Bitterness By Finding Forgiveness

It is dangerous for you when you don’t choose to forgive others.

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5 Ways to Discuss Politics With Your Family

“Humility allows for a conversation to have a very important ingredient for genuine communication to happen.” – Danny Huerta

Opioid epidemic hits every family regardless of status. Two teens on a playground buying and selling drugs

The Opioid Epidemic—Keep Your Child from Becoming a Statistic

In 2022, drug overdose deaths exceeded 100,000 according to the CDC. Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are the primary cause of these fatalities.