One of the most important ways your family can pursue Christ together is through prayer.
Family Relationships
The Struggles and Benefits of Making and Keeping Friends.
How Marriage and Fatherhood Play Out Through Family Routines.
The prevailing framework with which dads approach their role in the family is as an equal partnership with their wife. Dads view their role as that of a team player with shared responsibility with their wife rather than split responsibility. Instead of taking sole ownership for the financial support of the family, many dads share …
As we raise our children to be responsible, God-fearing adults, there’s a lot of room for humor, energy and fun.
Despite good intentions, all men make mistakes that affect their kids. It is wise to consider what we’ve learned from our dad, and how it may influence our own fathering.
The more information a couple has when pursuing adoption, the more prepared they will be for any problems that may surface.
Adoption options include domestic foster care, domestic infant, international, open, closed and embryo.
Get into the mind-set that everything you do as a parent ultimately is part of validating or nurturing your children.
See which of these traditions might work for your family!
A mom’s primary job isn’t cooking dinner, changing diapers or helping a preschooler glue colored macaroni on a coffee can as a Father’s Day gift.
Preschool Go on a walk with your child, and collect leaves or other objects that reflect the changing seasons. Create habits that help you connect with your wife and kids, such as phone calls from work or special “daddy” time when you walk through the doorway at the end of the day. Post pictures of …
Every person needs both validation and nurture to fully develop into a healthy adult.
Here are some factors that can make it tough to validate, nurture and keep your fingers off the “control” button.
With our words we will affect the lives of those around us as we speak blessings, not curses, into their lives.
What is the next teachable moment or transition in your daughter’s life? How can you add affirmation and encouragement to that moment?
Here are a few ideas real moms and dads have created to set an atmosphere where words of affirmation and moments of celebration can be shared.
Celebrate personal moments in a powerful way that can breathe life into a young person’s heart and future!
Sports have so much to teach us about what it means to live well. Yes, good character can be taught in Sunday school, but it is “practiced” on the court, diamond, gridiron and track. Virtues such as tenacity, perseverance, fairness, integrity and responsibility can be developed and strengthened as surely as the muscles and skills …
Use your children’s involvement in sports to teach them about life.
