Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage
Blog for Christian Families, Parenting, & Marriage
I'm So Over Winter... Or So I Thought!
By the end of January here in the Midwest, winter has usually worn out its welcome. The cold has been around for what seems like forever, and below-freezing temperatures have ...
Understanding Your Child's Learning Style
Knowing your child’s learning style is a huge help on those days in the journey of parenting when you can’t seem to break through to your child.Have you ever found ...
Come As You Are
The day had gotten away from me. It was a Hands Free Saturday, which meant having fun took priority over showering and doing my hair. But now it was almost ...
How to Prepare Siblings for a New Baby
Bringing home a baby is sometimes a very scary thing for an older sibling. They think their world, as they know it, is going to be turned upside down.Thankfully, we ...
My Kids Are Treasure Hunters
My kids are treasure hunters.My husband and I send our kids on adventures – but they are not kind that promise to yield pirate’s gold or the Ark of the ...
When Kids Feel Rejection and Hurt: Help Them Focus on God's Love
I sometimes still struggle with rejection and the hurt that comes from it. Knowing the height and length and breadth of God’s love for me helps me realize that what ...
My First Church Memories
It’s hard to admit, but I have really fuzzy and inconsistent memories of most of my childhood. I don’t know why this is the case; my childhood was pretty typical ...
7 Habits That Will Change Your Life
When I was eleven years old, I committed my life to Christ. From that day forward, I’ve constantly lived with the realization that I only have one shot at life—and ...
6 Great Devotionals for Children & Teens
Confession time: even as a pastor’s kid, I was terrible with reading my Bible every day. In fact, as a child I hated reading altogether and at nighttime, I would ...
Be a Positive Parent! Easy Positive Parenting Tips
What exactly is positive parenting?Is it some unattainable ideal? An urban legend? Something to aspire to, yet never achieve?In its essence, positive parenting simply means guiding our kids down the ...
Creating a Calming Bedtime Routine
I read lots of books on parenting when I was pregnant. One of the recommendations I discovered over and over again was to create a bedtime routine so that the ...
My Child Cannot Kiss a Moving Target
Maybe it was the recurring disappointment in my children’s faces when I told them I didn’t have time. Maybe it was the superficial hellos and hasty goodbyes offered to my ...
3 Tips For Meaningful Family Devotions
I stopped at my favorite bakery today.I ran inside, ordered up my favorite cookie, then sat outside in the warm car and enjoyed every bit of that salted caramel deliciousness ...
Ways to Teach Your Kids to Read the Bible
The beginning of a new year is a wonderful time to encourage children to read the Bible daily. Even if your child has not succeeded with daily Bible reading, the ...
How to Start Your School Day Off Right
My oldest child has no problem getting up for school each morning.My youngest, on the other hand, is a completely different story.It doesn’t seem to matter what I do to ...
Sharing the Meaning of Christmas with Your Kids through Books
I’m always willing to try a new idea that could easily become a holiday tradition. For example, last year we found a book about The Sparkle Box where you place ...
Free Resources
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