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Disciplining the Strong-Willed Elementary Child

Do you have any advice for disciplining and training uncooperative school-age children? I hear a lot about dealing with strong-willed toddlers, but not so much about older kids. My child is now in the elementary grades and life in our household is still an ongoing battle. Can you help us?

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Teens Using Media: Why Social Media Shouldn’t Define Your Teen

Instagram and Snapchat may seem harmless and fun, but they can be addicting and damaging for your teens, when these apps are used in excess.

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Redrawing Boundaries With Adult Children

How much control does, or should, a parent have over an adult child?

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Your Child’s Love Language

Children express and receive love in different ways.

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7 Strategies for Relentless Parenting

Teen rebellion requires parental tenacity and persistence.

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Uncovering the Pain Behind Your Child’s Anger

Learn how to recognize the reasons for anger, and whether it’s appropriate or not.

What Can You Do to Safeguard Your Teen from Suicide?

Unfortunately, a guarantee doesn’t come with the safeguarding suggestions, but they can help prevent teen suicide. 

How Your Teen Thinks

Have you ever wondered what your teen is thinking? Jerusha Clark unpacks three ways your teen’s brain is changing and what you can do to parent more effectively in the midst of the drama.

Helping Teens With Anxiety

Here are several ways to help our teens change their anxious thinking habits and lead them toward a healthier mindset.

How to Help Your Teen with Social Anxiety

Facing a mental illness is difficult, and as parents we want to take the burdens from our children. Rest in knowing that there is hope.

Caring for Teens with Autism

Raising teens with autism takes patience and an ability to expect the unexpected. It’s a hard road, but a road with honor.

Teens and Eating Disorders

Discussing body image and eating disorders is difficult, but it is important to create a safe place for your teens to express what they are going through.

How to Help Your Teenager with Anxiety and Depression

Four tips for parents on how to help a teenager with anxiety and depression. As your teen faces challenges, be prepared to help.

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The Difference Between Teen Moodiness and Depression

Understanding the difference between normal mood swings and depression is an important part of parenting.

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4 Essential Parenting Tips to Raising Responsible Kids

There’s no magic formula to raising children. There are, however, time tested principles.

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Dr. Kevin Leman’s Reality Discipline: A Parenting Game-Changer

This discipline method is less exhausting and more successful than ranting, raving, blaming, pleading, begging or threatening.

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Understanding Teen Dating: Should My Teen Date?

If you’re a parent of teenagers, you’ve probably noticed a growing interest in your teen’s desire to date. Where do you start? What questions should you be asking? And how do you balance boundaries with love in your teen’s dating experiences?

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Science and the Bible: Seeing the Master Behind the Design

Science and the Bible aren’t meant to be separate or at odds with each other. Instead, science can be experienced because a brilliant Designer created our world.

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5 Tips for Transitioning from Parent to Grandparent

Becoming a grandparent brings with it a new parenting style. Here are 5 tips to help you transition from being a parent to a grandparent.

Consistent Fatherhood

How active are you in the lives of your children?

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