Life Challenges • Rebellion How God brought a prodigal home again I don’t know if it was the mess in the apartment or the after-effects of too much partying and not enough sleep, but ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Quick tips for dealing with defiant teens One of the toughest times in parenting is when your teen rebels. Here a few tips that might help. Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: How to choose your battles with your teen Your basic rule of thumb, then, should be, "Avoid major conflicts with your teenager if at all possible." Some things... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Loving your wayward child No matter the scenario, it can be a time of stress, anxiety and heartbreak. Here are 10 things a parent can do when t... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: Building a more respectful relationship with your teen Bottom line: respect isn't something that can be demanded. It has to be earned, and for the most part we earn it by g... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Q&A: Disciplining my strong-willed adolescent Make a determined effort to stay in touch with your teenager's feelings and cultivate an awareness of the day-to-day ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How to set clear boundaries for your teen Boundaries are simply limits set around behaviour to try to change the direction a child is going. They define what y... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Surviving an adolescent meltdown How was I going to teach my adolescent son to control himself? With that in mind, I slowly developed some rules of en... 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 • Parenting Trusting God with a rebellious daughter In my decision to trust God, He transformed the tears and pain. He helped me love Janet unconditionally and wait for ... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Empowerment parenting for your teens Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do as a parent is to give up some of your power over your teen, allowing th... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting The long road to reconciliation: Seeking harmony in strained family relationships The journey is difficult, and there’s no guarantee of reconciliation, but each woman is striving to live out the love... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Holding your marriage together when your kids fall apart Twenty years of a predominantly happy marriage and now it seemed our whole life revolved around our son’s poor choice... Article
Life Challenges • Justice When you need to take action to protect your grandkids When parents fail to do what is in the best interest of a child’s physical or emotional health, then we, as grandpare... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Deciphering the clues of teen depression Not even children from healthy, loving families are immune to the problem. Faithful Christian teens are as susceptibl... Article
Life Challenges • Grief and loss Understanding grief and loss We need to acknowledge losses in our own lives; we need to validate losses in the lives of others. We need to recogni... Article
Life Challenges • Marriage Rediscovering the heart of marriage in midlife In the midst of my own midlife marriage crisis, I began trying to peel back the layers of misunderstanding and pain t... Article
Life Challenges • Mental health The value of taking a break and finding rest If you’re married to an unusually selfish person, a controlling person, a depressed spouse or even if you’re just wed... Article
Life Challenges • Parenting How to help your child avoid extracurricular overload The problem is that if we always push our children to get better, we imply they are never good enough. Article
Life Challenges • Parenting Child's sexual orientation in doubt You must commit to patience, prayer and perseverance. You may shed rivers of tears, but you must not allow animosity ... Article