Life Challenges • Parenting Understanding the impact of divorce What parents see as a quick way out often results in emotional damage that the children will carry for 30 years or mo... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Navigating divorce: Your needs versus your kids' needs Here are a few common compulsions, according to Hart, that you may be feeling right now, but that call for caution fo... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Helping children of divorce Divorce is never an enjoyable road to travel. But with perseverance, it is possible to help guide our children throug... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Tough questions kids ask custodial parents As parents, we need wisdom about when and what to say to our children. Fortunately, the Bible says, "If any of you la... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting 6 things a child of divorce wanted her parents to know Here are six things I wanted my parents to see – from my point of view – things I wish every separated or divorced pa... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Breaking the cycle of divorce Unless children of divorce identify the false ideas their parents unknowingly planted and replace those ideas with Bi... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting The damage caused by ex bashing We must give up the practice of cutting our kids in two by criticizing our estranged or divorced spouse. Article
Life Challenges • Separation The effects of divorce Before you bail out of your marriage, look at what you’ll be diving into. Most people are not prepared for the challe... Article
Life Challenges • Physical abuse The impact of family violence on children Abuse in the home is even more damaging than divorce because it places the child at risk, promotes violence as a way ... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Crisis: A pivotal point in marriage When external or internal forces reach critical mass and coping mechanisms fail, an emotional crisis in marriage begi... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: How to quash battles with your school age child I feel as if I'm in a state of constant conflict with my school age child. Is there a way to break this negative patt... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage How to protect your marriage when your child's marriage falters There’s no easy fix for a broken marriage, but there are certain things you have to keep in mind to not only help you... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Caring for yourself when your child is in crisis When our child is hurting, we hurt too. If you're distracted by worry, or wondering if you'll ever find joy again, he... Article
Life Challenges • Gender identity How do we make sense of gender in today’s culture? With the prevalence of “gender options” in our culture it continues to be a complicated topic among young people. The... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How to cope when your child is born with a disability What do you do with the swell of emotion? How do you handle the news and still operate as a good parent of a newborn?... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How parental attachment determines a child's emotional health If you were offered a test that could predict how emotionally healthy your child will become, would you take the test... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Mourning in marriage after the loss of a child Where does a couple begin? How can two grieving hearts find comfort in each other? Is divorce inevitable after a fami... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Monsters and mid-terms: Helping your child cope with anxiety As parents, we need to be proactive. Whether we detect unusual anxiousness in our children or not, we need to teach o... Article