Parenting

Winter is a beautiful time to spend with our families. By spending time with them, we will become closer. Communicating with them in a healthy way will ensure that bonding moments and lasting memories will be formed. 

February may be one of the least popular months, but it offers plenty of opportunities for joy—including family movie nights. This list highlights seven new films to enjoy, from faith-based dramas like House of David and Disciples in the Moonlight to animated favorites like Despicable Me 4 and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, ensuring entertainment for all ages.

You prepare your body for the baby for roughly ten months (40 weeks) or an adoption process that can span even longer as you assimilate a child into your home. But how much do we prepare our minds for the rest of our lives in how we see ourselves as a mom? No one really talks about preparing for the mental acknowledgment of being a parent, not just in the moment but in the years ahead.

Valentine’s Day has come to be a day where we show affection and appreciation for family and friends. This day has the potential to be so much more than flowers, chocolate, and warm fuzzy feelings. It can be an opportunity to reflect God’s big supernatural love. In our homes we can celebrate the amazing love God has for us on Valentine’s Day and beyond. Here are 10 ways parents can use Valentine’s Day to teach children about God’s love. 

Green and Gold is an inspiring family film about faith, perseverance, and the power of small-town community, following dairy farmer Buck as he fights to save his family's land amid financial hardship. With themes of tradition, love, and an unexpected high-stakes bet on the Green Bay Packers, the film delivers a heartwarming tribute to faith, family, and the quiet heroism of those who choose to do the right thing. Here are 3 ways ‘Green and Gold’ delivers a story families will love.

If you have a son or daughter in that pre-teen through teenage segment of life, Valentine's Day can be an entirely different experience. The angst, the drama, the nonchalance, the pretending they don't care, but they really do, and then the whole boy/girl crazy element. It can be tricky to navigate—for them and us as parents.

In reality, Valentine's Day, teenage relationships, and self-esteem often intertwine to become a perplexing maze for parents to navigate. There isn't necessarily one right way to help your teen, but the key is to help your teen.

Being a first-time father can be an exciting and nerve-wracking time. Try to relax and enjoy the journey. Reading books, asking questions, having wonderful mentors, and talking to God are some of the best ways to prepare and gain confidence for the journey ahead. With your friends, family, and God in your life, you will soon learn how to be the best dad you can be.

What do you do when your child never grows up? When they keep making the same poor choices and not learning from them? When they expect you to keep bailing them out or helping them? Or maybe you always bail them out and help them, which isn't healthy for either of you. How do you learn to set boundaries and stop enabling your adult child? 

Fellow moms, we need this time with God, and we need to read Scripture. The Bible shows us the right path to take, reveals God’s truth and wisdom, teaches us to live like Jesus, and prompts us to love our family and those around us.

God's plans are always better. He isn't done with us and uses our kids to help in the process. Parenting can teach us dependence on Him, patience, selflessness, grace, and humility. 

For better or for worse, we learn so much of our parenting methods through our own parents. What's a parent to do when they didn't have the healthiest teachers?

Offering historical perspectives, highlighting how God can heal and respond to prayer, and why celebrating heroes is something a child will take with him or her into their adult life.

Good news parents, that constant fighting you are hearing in your home is actually beneficial for your kids. Siblings squabbles, which oftentimes can feel endless, teach us so much. These arguments teach us how to cope with difficulties, how to apologize and forgive, how to vocalize our feelings, they learn from their siblings point-of-view, and how to love through disagreement.

God had a lot to say about the role of a mother, there are dozens upon dozens of Bible verses about mothers. With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, going to the Good Book to reiterate, “I love you,” will honor mothers in your life.

Sisters, He's got this. He's got you. He knows all about the uneasiness of your heart, and He longs for you to keep your eyes focused on Him - the Author and Perfecter of your faith. Remember the words of the old chorus: Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.'

The work done by a stay-at-home mom is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. It’s hard, yet it’s fruitful because it’s eternal work. If you get anxious (and you will), pray to our Lord, who is at hand. He’s never far from you. Let Him know how you’re doing and what you need.

Ending generational curses involves more than just cutting off harmful cycles; it involves embracing the amazing legacy that God has prepared for you.

We know Grandparents have every good intention at heart, but here are some things that you might want to be aware of in your goal of lightening the parents' load.

A dad can help a daughter see who she is and what she can become as she grows and matures. As a daughter grows, she needs her dad less for the day-to-day decisions and more for the year-to-year decisions. This is where a dad can help his daughter not feel left out by looking ahead with her. Have you asked your daughter lately what you can do to help support her dreams?