Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage
Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage
Hands Free Life: Unimaginable Strength
“I want be on the swim team like Natalie,” Avery announced shortly after she turned six. She’d even put on Natalie’s team suit and Speedo goggles to show that she ...
Courage Doesn’t Always Roar
I’m not the bravest one in the bunch. Deep down, my heart longs for adventure, but adventure of the safe variety.On a recent family vacation with my best friend and ...
Prayer: A Special Nighttime Ritual
Motherhood crept up on me.I know I know, I had nine months to prepare for my first child. But as an only child myself, I was not exposed to a ...
Raising Kids That Choose Joy
Choose joy.I say it all the time: to myself, to my friends and especially to my children.But is it as easy as that?I dare say it is not.In my book, ...
Family Mission: Teams Share a Common Goal
Jason came from what looked like the perfect Christian family. But, Jason never made his faith his own.Jason’s parents were heavily involved in their church. They all pitched in, with ...
Do Our Kids Know How Adored They Are by God?
As parents, we constantly strive to raise emotionally healthy children, don’t we? We do our best to provide our kids with safe, stable and supportive home environments where words of ...
God's Awesome, Unique Design of All People: Teaching Our Kids About Diversity
We attend an inner-city church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Little Rock is known to be a place of desegregation struggles — past and present. Up until 1957 schools here were ...
They Lost Everything in a Devastating Fire But Never Felt More Rich or Free
Driving the road to our house, you crest a small hill right before you reach the intersection. It had always been a good feeling — to reach the hill and ...
Different Kids, One God
No two kids are created the same.What works to encourage or discipline one does not work for another. I wish I could find a simple strategy that works with all ...
Indescribable - Teaching Kids to Be in Awe of God's Creation
How did people live when dinosaurs were around? How did the stars get in the sky? How does gravity really work? If you’ve heard these questions, or similar ones, from ...
Honoring Grandparents
I have fond memories of my grandparents and the times I spent at their home each summer. Our family ate watermelon and cantaloupe freshly picked from local farms. My brother ...
Don’t Let the ANTs Steal Your Happiness
ANTS, or Automatic Negative Thoughts, impact children and adults alike but can be combatted with God’s truths.As I sat in my son’s bed reading a bedtime story I heard my ...
Cultivating Gratitude in our Families
My kids had high expectations for the summer. In the days leading up to the end of school, they came up with many ways to make the most of their ...
How Not to Bribe Your Kids to Memorize Scripture
I was bribed to memorize Scripture as a child.That might sound bad, but let me explain. When I was around nine-years old, my grandma told her grandkids that if we ...
How to Choose a Bible for Your Child
If you’ve stepped into a bookstore lately to purchase a Bible you’ve probably noticed how very many choices exist. And while a vast selection of Bibles is a wonderful option ...
Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
If we could pick just one personal quality to cultivate in our daughters – if we could gift wrap one specific character trait and envelope them in it like a ...
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