Ways to Develop Your Son’s Emotional Health Snips and snails and puppy dog tails might have been how I once envisioned boys as I ran from them on the playground and dreaded standing next to one particularly rude young man in Super Choir. That was when I was 9 years old. Perhaps it was a [...]
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School years are the exciting times when we as parents watch our children morph into mini-adults with knowledge, excitement, and newfound understanding. Not all children are so fortunate, however, as not all schools are created equally. There are great schools, average schools, and schools that are little more than buildings that house children. If you [...]
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Do you hear the term Christian parenting and think of rods and spoiled children, or parents using the Bible as a dogmatic force – shouting out the Commandment of Honor they Father and Mother? You are probably not alone if you do, but the ideas behind Christian parenting are really based on a foundation of [...]
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Kids Need Rules for Technology Use We have taken the plunge and now 2 of our 4 kids have their own cell phones, complete with texting, and they have joined the ranks of more than 16 million children in the US with cell phones. Add to that 2 computers in the home and digital cameras [...]
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Our family has just returned from a second funeral in one week, with another one tomorrow. These deaths around us were not related, but they did reiterate a common point to us and our children – life is precious and death is inevitable. As adults we can gather a different meaning from this through our [...]
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Create Family Teamwork Through Family Responsibilities Teaching children responsibility isn’t always easy. But if you read my post yesterday you can see that not only are household chores and responsibilities good for kids, but the earlier we give them to our kids, the better. Even our preschoolers can handle basic responsibilities, and in fact, prosper [...]
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Give your son the vacuum cleaner, and give him the world! Can household chores really do all of that? You might have heard about the research that shows that chores are good for children. It teaches them things like responsibility, practical living skills, and how to participate within a family. But have you heard or [...]
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Parenting isn’t about knowing everything and instilling overflowing amounts of wisdom upon our children, no matter how much we wish that to be the case. As prepared as we hope to be when we bring our little bundles of joy home, there is nothing that can prepare us for the lessons we will be taught [...]
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An Effective Method of Behavior Management and Modification If you’re a parent, chances are you have seen your children move from calm, loving creatures to unrecognizable terrors of energy that burst forth like the spaghetti they used to throw as a baby from the highchair. OK – maybe not quite – but like the spaghetti [...]
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Did you ever wonder as a child how silly it was that all the grownups spent a lot of time talking about money, yet you never talked about how to manage it in school? Did you ever find it odd in college that the professor who taught business had never actually ran one? Ever wonder [...]
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