Family Update

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  3 Ways COVID-19 Could Transform Us for Better or for Worse While I sincerely hope and imagine that the current circumstances we are facing aren’t permanent, it stands to reason that this huge (and lengthy) shift in how we live life will make a long-term impact in... Cortni Marrazzo Sep 22, 2020
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  7 Ways Parents Can Negatively Shape Their Children's View of God Parents have a profound impact on their children’s view of life, the world around them, and of God.While every parent makes mistakes, there are some behaviors that can impact a child well into adulthood and... Sep 22, 2020
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  10 Things Grandchildren Need to Hear “For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things…” (2 Peter 1:12)Last week all our children were home along with their spouses and our eight grandchildren. We live on a ranch in... Rhonda Stoppe Sep 15, 2020
• How to Be Faithful When Your Grandchildren Face Trauma You Can't Control If your family is as normal as mine, you’ve either already, or will in the future, experience timeswhen you can’t control what happens to your grandkids. Some of it will break your heart. We know we’re... Kathryn Graves Sep 15, 2020
• How to Avoid Hurting Your Kids While Trying to Help Them When we try to create independence, sometimes we make our kids dependent on us. As we encourage kids to be strong, sometimes we make them weaker. If we’re “lucky enough” for a good friend to point this out,...
• 4 Ways to Help Your Kids See the Bible as Truth  “Sometimes I can’t sleep,” my 12-year-old granddaughter said, “I’m kinda scared of the Corona Virus.”I hugged her tight. Honey, God is protecting us and He’ll always be with us no matter what.”She... Janet Perez Eckles Sep 15, 2020
• Ruined Children: What's Worse – Spoiled or Entitled? Children are born with a propensity to feel entitled and to demand that their needs be met. Rhonda Stoppe Sep 08, 2020
• How to Help Your Teens Act on Logic Instead of Emotion As parents, we often walk a fine line between control and empowerment while teaching our teens to make wise choices.When do you step in to intervene? How do we teach them to navigate through the quest for... Stephanie Thompson Sep 08, 2020
• 5 Steps to Caring for Your Teen's Mental Health during COVID It’s so easy to forget that social media posts may not tell the whole story. Lots of struggles may be occurring outside the snapshot view. Mental illness is one of them. It carries a cultural stigma which... Stephanie Thompson Sep 08, 2020
• 4 Amazing Scriptures to Help Moms Find Inner Peace Late afternoon in my house everything seems to go off the rails. The kids get cranky, start fighting, ultimately our 5-year-old melts down in one giant blood-curdling scream. My hackles go up, my shoulders... Rachel Baker Sep 08, 2020
• Is Your Family Being Called into Foster Care? The process of becoming Foster parents came with a lot of fear and still I’m afraid of what saying “yes” to God’s plan for us to expand our family in a less traditional way could mean through the years. How... Amanda Idleman Sep 02, 2020
• What to Do When You're Not Ready to Become a Grandparent A few years ago, when things took a much different turn than expected, my husband and I were informed that we were going to become grandparents at the age of 42. Nothing could have prepared us for that... Jennifer Waddle Sep 02, 2020