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How to Find the Right Routine as a Solo Parent

Nothing about what we’ve all gone through over these past 18 months is normal. And it’s been hard. It’s been frustrating. And I don’t know about you, but I’m tired. All that to say, I don’t have a great routine. I sure don’t have this single parent role... Read More

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3 Ways to Ease Back Into In-Person Events Again

We’re all different people processing through our own experiences and convictions. Of course, we’re all going to react to a pandemic differently. I think the trouble comes in when we fail to give others the space to have opinions that diverge from our own. Read More

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Co-Parenting Through the School Year

When you put your personal pride to the side for the sake of your kids, you are doing all that you can do. The rest? You have to let it go.  Read More

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How to Calm Your Anxious Child

If you are the parent of an anxious child, you are not alone. Anxiety is the most common mental health condition of childhood and adolescence. Read More

Character and Values | Featured | Imagine The End | Other Resources | Special Topics

5 Things I Want My Kids to Know About Confidence

Thanks to social media, kids today are growing up in a world where it’s easy to compare their real life with someone else’s highlight reel.  Read More

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Did You Put On Your Oxygen Mask?

Some days, it was hard to feel creative and show up fully when my mind was so full, burdened, anxious, and stressed. Read More

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5 Tips on Co-Parenting After Divorce

I try very hard to only say positive things about my girls’ dad. The truth is, I’ve got no clue what he went through. All I know is what I see, hear, think, and experience. But that’s such a limited view. Read More

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Tough Conversations That Benefit Your Whole Family

No one wants to know when they are going to die. But when you know you’re going to die, there is something special about that time you have with one another. Read More

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Parenting With a Chronic Illness

It can be such a temptation not to make the most of the difficult days. My faith, having gratitude, and keeping challenges in perspective have been keys for me to find joy and contentment when parenting with a chronic illness. Read More

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Raising Future Adults: How the Role Changes for Parents of Autistics

For our son, being autistic is all he’s ever known. Autism is his normal. When God esteems him as, “wonderfully and fearfully made,” my child isn’t broken. I am.  Our son doesn’t have out-of-the-ordinary, exceptional needs. His mother does. I’m the one in chronic, special need of grace. Read More