You Bet Life Isn’t Fair, Kid!
Your kids have likely screamed 862 different versions of “That’s not fair!!!!” from their small lungs before their fifth birthday. Whether it’s the attention you gave her sister but not her, why her friend could get a new Elsa doll but she couldn’t, or why the your son’s... Read More
Family Life | Make It Personal | Self Care
Surviving Parenthood
If you knew what was involved in parenting, would you still go back and choose to do it? I’ll be honest, most days I would say, “no.” I would say that I’m clearly not cut out for this. In fact, parenting isn’t in my strength-finder results. If I... Read More
Family Life | Fight For The Heart
Whenever Possible: Avoid Arguing with Your Kids
You can’t effectively discipline your kid or teenager if you continually find yourself in the middle of an argument with him. When disciplining, conversations may become heated, so use good communication skills and agree to walk away until you’ve both calmed down. The best way to avoid an... Read More
Parenting Isn’t a Formula
I’m not going to pretend that this parenting thing is easy. That if you do all the right things, everything works out great. Because people don’t work that way. Relationships don’t work that way. If you combine A+B, you don’t always get C. That’s the way algebra works,... Read More
The Art of Discipline: Making It Helpful
Shepherding the hearts of our kids is one of those daily behaviors that does more to refine and challenge me than anything else in my life. In my interactions with my kids, God reveals more to me about my own humanity than I care to know. Particularly in... Read More
Family Life | Fight For The Heart
Rules or Relationship? A Simple Maxim for Parents
My guess is that in your house—like my house—there’s a constant tension between rules and relationships. Your nine-year-old is supposed to help wash the car, but instead decides that riding his bike is a far more important to the functioning of the universe than cleaning your dirty minivan.... Read More
Elementary (K-5th) | Family Life | Fight For The Heart
Looking for the Good in the Not-So-Good Behavior
“But I HATE chicken nuggets!” My 5-year-old daughter screamed these words in McDonald’s and the blood rushed to my face. It felt like everybody was staring at us. At me. The mom with the brat. “You just asked for nuggets last week because they are your favorite,” I... Read More
Family Life | High School (9th-12th) | Imagine The End | Mental Health | Middle School (6th-8th)
How to Help A Kid Get Unstuck
We all know what it’s like to struggle with a bad habit or be caught in a destructive cycle. Oftentimes, we don’t even realize the cycle we’re in until our world comes crashing down. It’s much easier to identify a damaging habit in other people, isn’t it? So... Read More
5 Parenting Principles
We want to encourage you with these five principles to help you navigate a variety of different seasons and parent beyond your own capacity. Read More
The Problem With Time
I could write one thousand articles about parent guilt. The topic is wide and ever present in the minds of most parents. It’s the underlying dread that maybe you’re not a good enough parent. Maybe other parents have it together and you don’t. Maybe we’ve all got it... Read More