Parenting Update

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  5 Things Your Young Adult Children Still Need from You My husband’s wise grandmother once told me that parenting never ends.At the time, I found the comment puzzling. As a parent of small children whose life consisted of long exhausting days, I couldn’t really... Stephanie Thompson Oct 05, 2020
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  6 Ways to Find Your Identity Outside of Being a Mom The day I became a mom, the line between my world and my son’s instantly blurred. In the process of loving my boy, I forgot who I was before I had kids. Becky Beresford Oct 05, 2020
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  5 Reasons Comparing Your Kids Is Harmful As kids, my brother and I were as opposite as could be.Clever and introverted, he could craft a poem one moment and expertly repair an engine the next. He was loyal, fearless, and tenacious in his points of... Joanna Teigen Sep 28, 2020
• How to Raise Faithful Children in a Fear-Driven World Our world seems even more fear-driven than the remembrances of my childhood nightmares. The newspaper headlines scream fear. As parents, how do we raise faithful children in a fear-driven world? Jessica Van Roekel Sep 28, 2020
• How to Find Hope When Parenting Children with Mental Illness Upon finding out I was pregnant with my first child, I raced to the bookstore down the street. I wanted to be prepared for this long anticipated season of life, so I purchased a popular book an raising young... Stephanie Thompson Sep 28, 2020
• 5 Ways to Stop Entitlement Before it Grows Are you constantly reminding your children to say “thank you” when they are the recipients of kindness? Do you also find yourself frustrated when they complain or behave with a sense of... Cindi McMenamin Sep 21, 2020
• 4 Ways That Children Are a Gift from God Psalm 127:3 tells us, “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.” Sometimes, in the hustle of taking care of these kids that are supposed to be a gift to us, they can feel more like a... Amanda Idleman Sep 21, 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 14, 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 14, 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 07, 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 07, 2020