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General Parenting

If you’ve been a parent for more than, say, 20 minutes, you know parenting is not easy. It’s not an exact science. God made each of our kids unique … with his or her own set of strengths, skill and challenges. The following pages are intended to be a rich and growing media source of information you can use. It’s also a place where you can post questions and get instant insights from other parents who, like you, are figuring things out as they go.

August 4, 2008
A Parent's Job Description

Position:Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma, Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, PopJob Description:Long-term team players needed for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent ...

June 5, 2008
20 Ways to Tell Your Child, 'I Love You'

Sometimes in the rush of everyday life, we forget to do the things that matter most in the lives of our children. Here are several great, ...

June 5, 2008
7 Tips for Helping Your Kids Discover Their Strengths and Weaknesses

Learning what our kids do best is both exciting and important. Especially if you are part of a blended family, you may have more than a ...

May 23, 2008
10 Tips for Choosing a College That's Right for Your Kids

Well, it's nearing the end of May, and many of you are preparing to attend your child's high school graduation and will send him or her off to ...

May 23, 2008
Encouraging Positive Role Models

Role models are essential, because children learn much of their behavior by emulating others. So your child’s future superstardom may hinge on having role models and ...

May 22, 2008
What Is Quality Time?

Is taking a child to the movies quality time? How about watching their soccer game? How do we define quality time? Quality time is important because ...

May 8, 2008
Teaching Your Kids Honesty, Integrity
They'll Learn by Your Example

In this day and age in which children are accustomed to downloading music and movies for free, how do you teach them about integrity?Believe it or ...

April 29, 2008
Time Is of the Essence
Spend Time With Your Kids; It’s What They Want

Of the 1,440 minutes in each day, how many are you spending with your child?Despite the new car you may buy them for their 16th birthday, ...

April 1, 2008
Safeguarding Your Children Online

Using the Internet has become second nature for kids today. Online homework, school-based web boards and chatting with friends is now commonplace for this generation. At ...

March 31, 2008
Raising Selfless Kids

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.– Albert EinsteinAt some point, superstar children have ...

March 27, 2008
Be a Winning Parent
21 Ways to Make a Positive Impact on Your Child's Life

Parenting is not for wimps. Sure, to some, parenting may come easy. But for most of us, it’s two steps forward, one step back. Loads of ...

January 20, 2008
Awakening Your Child’s Hunger for Spiritual Things

Kids today are starved for supernatural reality. They are not just open to spiritual power; they long for it! The church is faced with a media-savvy ...

January 20, 2008
Check Out the ‘Thinking Person’s’ YouTube

I was recently introduced to FORA.tv, a new Web site that aggregates videos of discussions and debates on interesting political, social, and cultural issues. As a ...

January 20, 2008
Helping Your Child Become Bully-Wise

Bullying is a serious and pervasive problem in today’s schools. It may take the form of verbal teasing and name-calling or actual physical contact, such as ...

January 20, 2008
Making the Grade

Are you a home school parent? Or, perhaps your trying to help your child with their homework? Check out www.teacherxpress.com. A cool Web site for teachers, ...

January 20, 2008
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Don't tell your kids that they are. According to Scientific American, more than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ...

January 20, 2008
What a Great Idea! And he’s only five.

Snowman ...

January 20, 2008
What’s in a Name?

A psychology professor and student of names at Nebraska's Bellevue University is finding more and more babies these days tagged with high-end product names—presumably by parents ...

January 20, 2008
What’s So Bad About Spoiling Your Kids?

As I walked down the produce aisle the other day, looking for bananas that weren’t too ripe, I overheard two ladies chatting. From the tone of ...

January 20, 2008
Where’s my Apples?

We live out in the country. A friend called one afternoon to tell us that fruit trees were on sale at a local store. My wife, ...

December 16, 2007
I Want My Kid to be a Millionaire

Troy Dunn, author of Young Bucks: How to Raise a Future Millionaire, wants Christians to know that raising children to be successful people is one of ...

December 16, 2007
Internet Savvy

I love George Sfarnas’ great “Being Five” cartoon on the web.  It’s a cartoon supposedly developed by a five-year-old, who uses voice recognition software to write ...

December 16, 2007
Let Laughter Lighten Your Parenting Load

"I HAVE TO PEE!" "I have to pee!" — four little words that can send any parent into immediate action. But did I listen to my ...

December 16, 2007
The Power of Passing it On

Have you ever heard the story of two brothers named Jacob and Esau? Their father Isaac was a very rich and powerful man who lived ...

December 16, 2007
What’s So Great About Christianity?

Book Review By: Phil BrennanTuesday, October 16, 2007 2:42 PMWhat’s So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D’Souza, Regnery, $27.95, 344 PagesThere is no better way to ...

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