Parenting Update

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  How Special Needs Children are Like Unexpected Gifts Finding out your children have special needs is kind of like being given an orange. Andrew and Rachel Wilson Mar 11, 2019
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  10 Parenting Rules You Actually Need to Break With all the different information and philosophies on child rearing a parent can feel overwhelmed and overloaded. Lori Wildenberg Mar 05, 2019
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  10 Places to Take Your Grandchildren That They Will Remember Forever Spending time together is one of the best gifts you can your grandchildren. Kids enjoy taking a break from their parents and going places with you.    Places are just places; it’s the... Lisa Brown Mar 05, 2019
• What Parents Need to Know about the Momo Challenge and Other Dangerous Online Trends It’s important for parents to talk regularly with their children about theses apps and games, regardless of whether or not they have a phone. Heather Riggleman Mar 05, 2019
• How to Talk to Your Kids about Poverty and Homelessness You cannot teach what you do not understand. Just as your parents, your environment and upbringing shaped your perspective of people and poverty, now you have the opportunity to shape your kid’s perspective.... Dorena Williamson Feb 26, 2019
• How to Let Go of Guilt, Fear, and Shame While Parenting a Special-Needs Child Ever since the first sin in the Garden of Eden, humans have been struggling with three tricky obstacles to the healing power of grace. When Adam and Eve gave in to Satan’s temptation, they experienced guilt,... Sandra Peoples Feb 26, 2019
• 7 Ways to Talk to Your Kids about Immigration In my new book You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees & Immigrants Because God First Loved Us, I share how the way we respond to the immigrant and refugee crisis—whether we decide to be “for... Kent Annan Feb 19, 2019
• How to Get Your Teen to Open Up without Saying a Word “Dad, I’ve got a problem with my algebra class. See you later!” our daughter blurted out before slamming the car door and running off to school. That quick confession cracked the door... Joanna Teigen Feb 19, 2019
• How to Pray for a Wayward Grandchild I’m writing to remind you of truths that are easy to overlook when you’re hurting: the long-term value of prayer and the mysterious working of the Lord to save. May Patterson Feb 11, 2019
• 10 Fun (and Cheap!) Things to Do with Your Kids When It's Too Cold to Go Outside Depending on where you live, the winter months can be brutal, with temperatures so low that taking the kids outside isn’t an option unless absolutely necessary. Even if you live near an indoor amusement park... Dolores Smyth Feb 11, 2019
• 10 Practical Ways Grandparents Can Bless New Parents Isn’t it exciting to be a grandparent? For many people, grandparenting is the sweet spot of family relationship building and we look forward to the arrival of grandbabies with great expectation. We have... Kendra Fletcher Feb 11, 2019
• 10 Ways to Jumpstart New Discipline Techniques with Your Kids “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)  When you become a parent, you become entrusted by God to raise one or more... Lindsey Brady Feb 05, 2019