Parenting Category
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Internet Safety’s 5 Tips for Creating a Cybersafe Home™
This generation of parents is the first to face the challenge of helping our children make the most of their virtual space while keeping them safe in it. If you’re still getting your footing in…
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Add One More To The Fatherless Generation
The high and the mighty have an amazing way of crashing and burning that always impacts others. Perhaps their indiscretion begins with an urge combined with the lie that “I am not going to hurt…
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You go first, dad!
Excerpted from the book Preparing Your Son for Every Man’s Battle by Steve Arterburn Your son is becoming a young man, and he aches for you to count him as one. But, there are natural…
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What Hurts Our Kids and What Helps Them
What type of parent are you? As hard as we try to be the “right” kind of parent, we usually find ourselves being something else. We over-function and overprotect. We fix our kids mistakes, cover…
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How to Prepare for the Empty Nest
The week after my 25 year old daughter, “Claire” moved away from home into her new condo she gave me a call. After a brief chat she said, “So, what did you do today?” I…
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Is Your Child a Victim of Cyberbullying?
Excerpted from the book Internet Protect Your Kids by Steve Arterburn and Roger Marsh By the time he reached middle school, Ryan though he’d faced his fears and defeated them. Ever since a bully started…
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5 Positive Parenting Principles
Excerpted from the book Top Ten Dangers Teens Face by Steve Arterburn and Jim Burns Parenting isn’t easy.Life is difficult at times.But through the years we have found the five following principles essential for a…
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Ode To My Dad
My dad was probably the hardest-working man I’ve ever known. He worked for twenty years at a large university in Texas while also running drive-in restaurants and selling real estate. He was simply an outstanding…
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Are You a Worn Down Parent?
Excerpted from the book Boundaries With Kids by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend It’s scary how our kids can sense when we are weak and ready to give in to them. Many a…
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How to Help Your Kids Develop Character
Excerpted from the book Boundaries with Kids by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend Allison was by nature a ‘helper,’ and she gladly helped her fourteen-year-old son. She loved helping Cameron. She made his…
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