Ron Deal shares a holiday inspired tip to challenge parents to embrace the God-given uniqueness of their children.
Are you ready for the extended-summer sleepover? Here's some summertime advice for single-parent families.
Stepparents need regular doses of encouragement. It's extremely tough because they face unique challenges when it comes to discipline, the loyalties of children, differences in emotional attachments with children
Until stepparents establish a love relationship with a child, they're just external authorities imposing boundaries. Until then, stepparents should recognize these limits and borrow power from the biological parent.
Partly because teenagers wrestle with establishing an emotional identity separate from their parents, they often relapse into a teenage version of their “terrible twos.”
A gracious, generous spirit toward other stepfamily members invites relational prosperity. A spirit of competition, on the other hand, brings relational bankruptcy. Grace connects while possessiveness divides.
