A High School Counselor's Tips on Parenting Teenagers
Leia Joseph
The following six tips represent a handful of lessons for the parent of a teenager or pre-teen.
Help! My Kids are Viewing Pornography
Tim Challies and Paul Tautges
A short book packed full of practical advice.
10 Ideas and 10 Tips for Family Devotions in 2017
Tim Challies Many Christian families will resolve to approach family devotions with greater faithfulness in the year ahead, or perhaps even to begin family devotions for the first time. These are great resolutions! Here are 10 ideas and 10 tips that may help.
3 Parenting Myths We Are All Tempted To Believe
Tim Challies Even while God sets the challenge and provides the instruction for parenting, He makes no guarantees about the result...here's some truths and myths.
18 Things I Will Not Regret Doing With My Kids
Tim Challies Like most parents, I have those moments where guilt and regret comes over me like a wave. I consider then how much of my parenting time has already passed by and how little remains. When that wave rises up, I sometimes consider those things I will never regret...
Patient Parenting
David Murray If there’s one lesson I’ve learned in parenting five kids (now aged 2, 12, 14, 18, 19), it’s the need for patience. I now believe that patience is Christian parents’ greatest need. Here are six areas of parenting where I’ve learned (and am learning) to exercise patience.
Five Awkward Conversations Every Teen Needs to Have with Their Parents
Jaquelle Crowe You and I, parent and teen, are about to sit down together and talk about something serious. Whatever it is, it’s a delicate subject, and we’re both uncomfortable. It’s an awkward conversation.
Dating and Gospel Compatibility
Collin Hansen Matt and Lauren joined me on The Gospel Coalition Podcast to answer some tough questions on singleness and dating. We talked about various dating scenarios, about women who hold themselves back so as not to be intimidating, and about the emphasis often placed on compatibility, and what that relationship should look like from a gospel-shaped perspective.
On Empty Nests, Christian Mommy Guilt, and Misplaced Identity
Jen Wilkin Back-to-school time is always a tough transition, not just for kids but for moms. The internal ache hurt so deeply and caused so much distraction that I once again had to face the ultimate Christian mommy-guilt question: Do I love my kids too much?
Sex Education Should Start in the Christian Home
Melissa Edgington Christian homes should be the most open, honest, and comfortable places for kids and teens to learn and ask questions about sex. Let me make my case, Christian parents. If you are embarrassed to talk to your kids about sex, get over it. Here’s why.
A Letter to My Sons About Pornography
Liz Wann My Dear Sons, The eye beholds much good and evil in this life. Beholding leads to becoming. What we continually put before our eyes and minds will shape and determine who we are....
I Am a Leader for Christ . . . I Am the Mother of a Prodigal, Part 1
Kathy Davis How well I remember sitting one day with a group of fellow Christian leaders sharing prayer requests for our children. As I listened to their requests my own weary heart broke once again. You see, my prayer needs were so very different. The cry of my heart was for deliverance from darkness for one child, for freedom from addiction for another...
12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child
Desiring God Staff Many parents are brokenhearted and completely baffled by their unbelieving son or daughter. They have no clue why the child they raised well is making such awful, destructive decisions. I’ve never been one of these parents, but I have been one of these sons. Reflecting back on that experience, I offer these suggestions to help you reach out to your wayward child...
When Christian Kids Reveal They Aren’t
Julie Ganschow I know today’s blog will hit painfully close to home for some of you. You are the parent of a child or children that you have raised in a Christian home...You are shocked and dismayed as
you see your children, who professed Christ at one point in their lives, now happily living a worldly lifestyle...
What Girls Should Demand
Melissa Edgington Demand that boys respect your body and your soul. Because here is a deep down truth that I want you to understand. When they disrespect your body, they are disrespecting your soul. When they protect your body, your precious, God-breathed, flesh and bone, they are loving your soul...
What Should We Do When They Stray?
Nicholas T. Batzig Of all the painful experiences that I have had to face through nearly a decade in ministry–the death of a mother, couples enduring the heartbreak of miscarriage, strife, abuse, divorce, scandal, etc.–having to walk with a godly father and mother through the dark shadows of having a child rebel is among the most difficult...