Category: Parenting

by Dr. Gregory Reid
October 27, 2015

What is Halloween? It is a pagan holiday. It is a Druid celebration of the dead. Samhain – or Saman – the druid Lord of the Dead – is given his worship on this

by Berit Kjos
May 2, 2017

The following ten points offer practical and scriptural advice on how to raise your children to know and love the Lord and to continue walking in the faith.

by Focus on the Family

Teenagers and need to know is that sexting is potentially illegal. Photos of this nature are considered pornographic.

by Stephen Arterburn and Jim Burns

Alcohol is a dangerous drug even though our society mistakenly views it as separate from other drugs. Some parents are actually relieved to discover their kids are “only” drinking and not smoking pot or swallowing pills. But alcohol is a drug and a depressant, and it causes more deaths among young people than any other drug.

by Sophie Gallagher
November 6, 2017

The UK government defines sexting as the exchange of sexual messages or images and creating, sharing and forwarding sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images through mobile phones and the internet.

by Pat Williams

Humility is one of the rarest of all the character traits—and the most desperately needed. Here are some ways we can encourage this character trait in our kids.

by Brandon Showalter
July 25, 2017

Social media and online gaming are unfulfilling substitutes for human relationships. The power, identity, and even friendships that social media and technology provide distorts our perception of reality and contributes to the rising rates of mental health breakdown.

by Tim Challies

God’s commandments are perfectly clear in what they say and, broadly, in what they require. Yet implementing those commandments in practical ways and in the nitty-gritty of life can pose a challenge.

by Daniel Darling
April 9, 2015

How should an adult child relate to his or her parents? There is a tension in Scripture between obeying the Scripture which says to “leave and cleave” in forming your own adult identity and family and obeying the Scripture which says to “honor your father and mother”

by Kenneth Boa

Children are a gift from the Lord. They are God’s possession, not ours. He has temporarily placed them under our care; in effect, our children are “on loan” from God. We have been given the task of raising them up from a state of complete dependence to a state of complete independence so that we can release them to God by the time they reach maturity.