Parenting

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  When Does Life Begin According to the Bible? A baby in the womb is living, breathing, has a mind, organs, and a beating heart. All of us, at one point, were helpless children in the wound of our mother. At the time of conception, each of us became... Vivian Bricker Sep 16, 2022
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  The Impact of Growing Up Without Christ As children and teenagers, my sisters and I often felt this void in our hearts, yet none of us could articulate what it was that we were missing. Now in retrospect, we know the one thing that was missing was...
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  When Your Child Asks Questions and You Don’t Have Answers, Try This We can admit to our children that we don’t, in fact, know everything. The world will continue to spin despite this confession. And this leads the way for introducing our children to the One who does know it... Laura Spurlin Sep 15, 2022
• 8 Ways to Help, Not Hurt, When Your Adult Children Are Struggling But helping your child heal when they are hurting from emotional wounds becomes more difficult when they become an adult. They no longer want us to kiss and hug them and tell them everything will be OK. They... Michelle S. Lazurek Sep 14, 2022
• 8 Prayers to Pray over Your Daughter One of the greatest privileges parents have is to pray for their children. There are many kinds of prayers parents can pray, and at different stages of their child’s life. Looking down in a cradle at a sweet... Dawn Wilson Sep 14, 2022
• 6 Things I've Learned as a Foster Mom Every family is unique. No one family shares the same story. One thing is for sure, no matter how you become a parent or what the shape of your family looks like, we need God's grace to carry us through this... Amanda Idleman Sep 12, 2022
• 8 Ways to Help Your Kids Discover God’s Calling for Their Lives Their strict obedience to God's calling does not reflect on your parenting skills. You will be disappointed if your identity is wrapped in how your kids turn out. But an identity rooted in being His child... Michelle S. Lazurek Sep 08, 2022
• 5 Ways to Support Adoptive Families  When your children learn to love family, love adoption, and love our children, we feel accepted, and future generations will reap the blessings of that love. Megan Moore Sep 08, 2022
• Is There Hope for Wayward Prodigals? It's just a fact of life that failing in small and big ways is what many of us do best. Here's a story that's a powerful reminder: God doesn’t give up on you or me, even if we fail Him repeatedly. David Sanford Sep 08, 2022
• 7 Powerful Prayers to Pray over Your Children Parents have a great responsibility when it comes to raising children. Scripture teaches that having children is a reward (see Psalm 127:3). One practice that cannot be underestimated as someone brings up a... Pamela Palmer Sep 07, 2022
• How to Help Your Child with Separation Anxiety and Back-to-School Validating their emotions is recognizing them as real, expressing this recognition, and accepting that they are struggling. Feeding into their emotions is when we try to show empathy and create more of a... Jaime Jo Wright Sep 07, 2022
• 5 Tips for Raising Kids When Your Spouse Is Deployed It is easy to take everything on ourselves during deployment, but we must remember that our spouse is our partner even when away. Megan Moore Sep 01, 2022