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Your North Star
by Andy stanley Family

Your North Star

Your relationship with your children... is determined by the law of the harvest, not the last-minute urgency of the final exam . ~ Parenting, p. 5 Welcome Before satellites and GPS, ...
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Telling the Easter Story and Jesus' Resurrection with Eggs
by Tara ziegmont Family

Telling the Easter Story and Jesus' Resurrection with Eggs

It’s been a tradition in Christian families for years to us plastic eggs to teach children the meaning of Easter and the story of Jesus’ resurrection. While there are many ...
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Play with Me
by Catherine larson Family

Play with Me

Summer beckons with the lawn hose, water balloons, and water guns at our house of six boys. It beckons with roasted marshmallows, with bike rides, and backyard baseball. But for ...
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How to Save Money on Back to School Shopping
by Sami cone Family

How to Save Money on Back to School Shopping

Back to School shopping season is one of our family’s favorite times of year!There’s just something about opening a new box of crayons that brings a smile to my face.But ...
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Creative Ways to Celebrate Spring With Your Family
by Ramona vincent Family

Creative Ways to Celebrate Spring With Your Family

See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come… – Song of Solomon, 2:11-12What is your favorite ...
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Good Friday and Children: Making the Cross Real to Your Kids
by Erin mohring Family

Good Friday and Children: Making the Cross Real to Your Kids

Teaching children about Good Friday isn’t easy, especially if you’re talking with younger children. How do you explain why Jesus had to die? That Jesus knew ahead of Good Friday ...
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Celebrate Easter with a Treasure Hunt – With a Twist
by Ramona vincent Family

Celebrate Easter with a Treasure Hunt – With a Twist

Spring has arrived which means… Easter is coming! Is your family as excited as ours is about Resurrection Sunday?My family loves celebrating with an Easter treasure hunt! While we’ve all ...
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Jesus or the Easter Bunny: An Easter Memory
by Angie knutson Family

Jesus or the Easter Bunny: An Easter Memory

As I think back on the years of celebrating the Easter holiday with my husband and children, my memories are filled with Easter morning church services, frilly handmade dresses, matching ...
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Jesus' Birth: A Year-Round Conversation
by Callie nicole Family

Jesus' Birth: A Year-Round Conversation

Christmas is almost here, and amidst the hustle and bustle, all of us Christian parents are concerned with one thing — making sure our kids remember that Christmas is about ...
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How to Set Family Goals: Becoming a Family with Purpose
by Angie knutson Family

How to Set Family Goals: Becoming a Family with Purpose

Have you set any family goals or resolutions for the new year? I like the word goals better than resolutions. New Year’s resolutions always seem doomed to fail, and if ...
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Four Ways Families Can Keep Christ In Christmas
by Ramona vincent Family

Four Ways Families Can Keep Christ In Christmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – the Christmas season is here! Everywhere we turn, the sights, sounds, and wonders of Christmas surround us ready to captivate our ...
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10 Fun Fall Kids Activities and Crafts
by Tara ziegmont Family

10 Fun Fall Kids Activities and Crafts

I really love the fall. I suppose all of the seasons lend themselves to nature-study activities and crafts, but fall seems to be especially rich to me. My kids and ...
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Teaching Children Gratitude - My Extreme Measures
by Louise bishop Family

Teaching Children Gratitude - My Extreme Measures

Teaching my children to be thankful and have an attitude of gratitude has been one of my greatest challenges as a parent. Like many children in our Western culture, my ...
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Helping Kids Express Everyday Gratitude
by Traci little Family

Helping Kids Express Everyday Gratitude

Finding ways to grumble and complain is easy. Choosing to look for ways to express gratitude can seem like one of those dreaded last chance workouts on the hit series, ...
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10 Great Thanksgiving Books for Children
by Jaime guthals Family

10 Great Thanksgiving Books for Children

Teach your children about Thanksgiving traditions, gratitude and giving thanks to God this month for all their blessings with this collection of 10 of our favorite Thanksgiving books for children.Reading ...
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5 Ways to Help Kids with Back to School Anxiety
by Molly thornberg Family

5 Ways to Help Kids with Back to School Anxiety

Do your kids suffer from back to school anxiety? My two older children are both in grade school. Neither had experienced any type of school anxiety before, even when entering ...
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