Authenticity in Parenting

Parenting isn’t always easy, and at times we wish each child came with an owner’s manual! Can your neighbors see a difference in your family and in the way you parent your children? Do your neighbors want to emulate you when they are dealing with parenting issues? Learn from FamilyLife about parenting principles, tools and [...]

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>> Watch the other videos from the Creative Parenting series How do young people spell love? T-I-M-E.  They did a study of 300 7th and 8th graders. They wanted to find out how much time does a 7th and 8th grader spend in a meaningful conversation. In other words, in a conversation that is not [...]

How are you doing as a parent? God gives parents the special gift of children but it takes effort to raise them well. With the busyness of life, we can sometimes feel that we aren’t doing our best as parents. In this video series, Josh McDowell provides several creative parenting techniques to use with your [...]

Parenting isn’t always easy, and at times we wish each child came with an owner’s manual! Can your neighbors see a difference in your family and in the way you parent your children? Do your neighbors want to emulate you when they are dealing with parenting issues? Watch the video Learn from FamilyLife about parenting [...]

Josh McDowell – Creative Parenting

God gives parents the special gift of children but it takes effort to raise them well. In this video series, Josh McDowell provides several creative parenting techniques to use with your family, regardless of where you have come from or where you are right now. 1. T-I-M-E 2. Fabulous Parental Delusions (1-3) 3. Fabulous Parental [...]

One scary thing about parenting is it’s a temporary job. Our active parenting days are  numbered and we need to count them. How many parenting days do you still have? If your youngest child is five years old, you can assume he will be leaving the nest at around age eighteen, so that gives you [...]

**Tell us about your parenting experiences: http://talk.thelife.com/ Please open your Bible and read: (Ephesians 6:1 – 4) Parenting can feel like a trek through unfamiliar territory. Just when we think we know what we are doing, the terrain changes. God?s Word is both an instruction book and a road map to guide us through the [...]

Today, about two-thirds of women with children work outside the home, at least part time. Shifting from the responsibilities of the workplace to the equally responsible job of parenting is a tall order. Every parent knows how chaotic the hours after work and before bedtime can be. To manage the home, young couples are challenged [...]

Retirement dreams turn topsy-turvey as more and more grandparents step in to raise their kids’ kids. Chantal could hardly contain herself when she arrived home from kindergarten. During dinner, when her family asked about her day, she said that she had told her teacher, “My papa did my braids last night. He’s the best papa in the [...]

One evening, shortly after Richard and I married, he settled into his lounge chair to read – oblivious to my 14-year-old daughter’s piercing scowl and clenched fist as she stomped into the bedroom. But he heard her words. Melanie flung her body face down onto my bed, muttering, “It’s not fair, Mother! Richard is sitting [...]