How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens
How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens In This Series, this article focuses on how to quit watching porn including. Effects of Porn Addiction on a Teen Brain How Do You Respond to Your Child’s Suspected Porn Use? How Porn Affects Your Child’s Future How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for […]
Understanding Childhood Trauma Changes Everything
Understanding Childhood Trauma Changes Everything By Jayne Schooler Children who have been in foster care, like Susie were wounded most in the context of interpersonal relationships, and they will heal only in the context of healthy, nurturing, interpersonal relationships. Every Tuesday afternoon, seven-year-old Susie comes to Fire-Up, an after-school program at a church in her […]
Working Moms Need Friends, Too
Working Moms Need Friends, Too By Juli Slattery “What do you want to do this weekend?” my husband asked.Without thinking, I shot back, “I want to find some friends.”I was lonely. We had relocated our family from the familiar surroundings of Ohio to Colorado nearly a year and a half before. Though the move was […]
Women in the Workplace
Women in the Workplace By Shaunti Feldhahn Find support as you nurture your family and earn an income. I looked at the silent circle of women seated in the coffee shop around me. We had been laughing together before I asked the question that changed the atmosphere of the group. “Do you know how to […]
How to Help an ADHD Child
How to Help an ADHD Child By Walt Larimore Unlocking the potential in your ADHD child will require some work on your part, but it will be well worth it. What Is My Child Feeling? At Focus on the Family, we receive letters from children, adolescents and young adults who live with ADHD. One of […]
How to Deal With Bullying
How to Deal With Bullying By The Complete Guide to Baby & Child Care How to know if your child is being bullied, and what to do if your child is the one bullying others. Many parents assume that a few scuffles with other kids are par for the course during childhood, and that dealing […]
A Practical Approach to Bullies
How can parents help children deal with bullies on the bus, playground or wherever? Here’s some practical advice. By Roy Baldwin How can parents help children deal with bullies on the bus, playground or wherever? Here’s some practical advice. “Why are you reading that girly book?” the bully on the bus asked my 11-year old […]
Disciplining as a Single Parent
Disciplining as a Single Parent By David Frisbie Take a level-headed approach to leading your family. When a tag-team wrestler wearies in the fight, he works his way to the corner of the ring. Tired and worn out, he reaches to tag his partner — who then replaces him on the mat. Weary single parents […]
Responding to Behavioral Issues
God has made it clear throughout Scripture, and especially in Ephesians 2:10 and Psalm 139, that we are carefully created with love and with purpose. Yet Satan’s mission is to destroy that core identity and distort perceptions. The faulty messages communicated by our culture help the enemy do just that. In fact, many times people […]
