Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage

When I was a young girl, my mother wanted to make sure that I developed a rich prayer life as I grew up, so she made it a priority to ...

When my son was a toddler, he went through a stage where he was afraid to go to sleep. He could only tell us so much of what was going ...

If you’re anything like me and my kids, just hearing the first few notes of the VeggieTales theme song makes you want to jump up and dance and sing. We ...

The stuff it takes to be intimate is authenticity, vulnerability, and a belief that other people are about as good and bad as we are. And I’m learning these core ...

Hand over that apron to you little ones, and let them start cooking in the kitchen! Most parents I know don’t start cooking lessons until the teen years, but there ...

So when do we start giving kids an allowance? By first grade at the latest, though there is no harm in starting an allowance sooner. If a child can count ...

Responsibility is doing what you know you should do, even when you don’t want to. Bob is four years old and regularly leaves his pajamas on the floor in the ...

Why I Caved and Gave My Daughter a Sparkly Bible (God doesn’t care – just read it!)Having a little girl and watching her grow up to be the unique and ...

Contrary to popular belief, being pregnant isn’t as simple as remembering to take your prenatal vitamins, which is a feat unto itself. Pregnancy is exhausting, exciting, exhilarating, and stressful all ...

In society today, we receive news and media coverage faster than ever before. Our children can easily overhear updates about national disasters on the radio in the grocery store. They ...

The first time we took our boys to a climbing gym, they stood close to us and stared up in awe at the sheer height of the climbing walls in ...

It is almost guaranteed that I will hear those words come from the back of my minivan in the first 25 minutes of any road trip.I get it. As a ...

Loving the unlovable is hard – especially when you are a kid.“Roof, Roof, Roof, Roof,” my classmates yelled.As an adult it seems silly, but in fifth grade, this chanting of ...

There’s one thing that never changes in parenting: we constantly search for how to do it better.Thankfully, we have a God who cares for our kids more than we ever ...

One of the things I love and enjoy most about being a mother is watching how curiosity takes hold and blooms in my children. From the time each of them ...

If you’re anything like me, having just one Bible isn’t enough!There’s the sentimental Bible with years of notes that I’m afraid to travel with for fear of losing it, there’s ...