Parenting Update

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  10 Reasons Your Grandkids Need You Just as Much as Their Parents Nineteen years ago, our daughter died. This left a five-year-old girl and a seven-month-old boy motherless. Papa and I became instant parents and grandparents.We flew home from the funeral with these two... DiAne Gates May 26, 2021
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  5 Ways You Are Teaching Your Kids to Be Entitled Could you be accidentally raising an entitled child? Here are five common parenting mistakes that can lead to entitlement: Donna Jones May 17, 2021
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  5 Worries Moms Have about Teens and How to Surrender Them to God The Bible says not to worry. God will provide for all our needs. And that is absolutely true! So why do moms continue to worry about their kids—especially their graduating teens?Do we really believe God... Jennifer Waddle May 17, 2021
• 10 Ways to Show Gratitude to Grandparents When "Thank You" Is Inadequate How can parents express their profound appreciation for all the help and assistance grandparents give? Saying the words thank you just seems so inadequate—even though grandparents love to hear them. What are... Kathryn Graves May 17, 2021
• 10 Amazing Things about Moms in the Bible That Are Worth Celebrating Archeology reveals that skeletons of many women in ancient Israelite farm communities developed nodules on their vertebrae, arthritis in their necks from carrying heavy loads, and wear patterns in their... Karen Whiting May 10, 2021
• 4 Uplifting Reminders for the Overwhelming Days of Motherhood Motherhood is a beautiful disaster! Many days I feel I move from total exasperation to joyful exuberance several times an hour. Each season of being a Mom comes with different challenges and through it all...
• How to Radically Change Your Parenting for the Better Radically changing how you parent is not easy, but through prayer, self-reflection and commitment to goals, it can be done. It starts with knowing where you have been, where you are, and where you are going.... Laura Kuehn, LCSW May 10, 2021
• 5 Things You Gain When You Save Sex for Marriage But before waves of hormones and attraction and opposing viewpoints from the world and peer pressure and curiosity and natural desires crash in, we as parents do well to equip our kids with a more developed... Elizabeth Spencer May 03, 2021
• 3 Simple Ways to Revolutionize Your Family's Overall Health Growing up, the word “health” was so frequently associated with one’s physical health. As a young person I misconstrued “health” with looking fit, or an appearance of well-being. In my early 20s I considered... Rachel Baker May 03, 2021
• 5 Ways to Worship Together as a Family Worship should be more than something reserved only for Sunday mornings. When we take time to worship God together, what follows is an increased sense of unity and joy in our homes. Here are a few practical...
• How to Talk to Your Kids about Why Bad Things Happen to Good People Since time immemorial, everyone from the faithful to the faithless has grappled with answering the question: Why would a good and all-powerful God let bad things happen to good people?For purposes of this... Dolores Smyth Apr 26, 2021
• 12 Things I Wish I’d Told My Daughter before She Graduated I held it together pretty well during the graduation ceremony and the dinner afterward, only to have a really ugly cry late that night, drowning in the fear of the unknown. I’d like to share these bits of... May Patterson Apr 26, 2021