I don’t want my mom to die! I need her.
This has to be one of the most difficult things to see our kids wrestle with. It’s unfortunate, but when Mom and Dad face cancer, kids immediately fear the worst. We all do. How do we help them cope with [...]
I’m an empty nester, and I’m not liking it.
Your youngest is off to school or on their own. You’re just beside yourself. It’s a lot harder than you thought. The quiet halls of your home are haunting. You miss the hustle and bustle of teenage life, including the [...]
I have three kids, but one I just don’t understand.
It seems like in every family there’s one kid that just makes us wonder. Do you know what I’m talking about? You know, maybe you’re a family of extroverts, and little Alex is quiet and in a world all his [...]
I just want my kids to know God.
Isn’t that the hope of every Christian parent? We want our kids to have a growing and thriving relationship with Him. Question: did you have that as a kid? While I grew up in a Christian home, it wasn’t my [...]
I want my kids to know how to share their faith.
Neil Postman wrote, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”1 He’s right. As we invest in our kids, they’re actually taking a part of us with them into the future—a living time capsule, [...]
How can you let your kids hunt…with a gun?
We live in a time where many people believe guns kill people. Unfortunately, evil people DO use guns to kill people—but they use other things, too. I’m not going to get into a gun debate with you, but I got [...]
But all my friends’ parents bought them cars!
Bandwagon marketing. Our kids use it ALL the time, don’t they? My favorite saying is, “If all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you follow them?” Of course, that gets the eye-roll response, right? Maybe you did that [...]
My kids are pretty selfish. Is there anything I can do to help?
Unfortunately, selfishness isn’t a learned behavior. It’s human nature. The only cure for selfishness is heart change, but even in Christ people can be selfish. The second-best way to change that in our kids is to do a couple of [...]
My son is so short—how do I help?
Puberty. It’s God’s mystery, isn’t it? Why do some boys and girls mature early and others take their own sweet time? While there are physical issues that can cause this, time usually resolves the issue. But that doesn’t prevent our kids [...]
My kids act like they HATE each other. What do I do?
It’s not easy watching our kids fight. While my older kids were growing up, the three of them couldn’t get along as a trio. It was always two against one. I’ve noticed that when there’s a huge age gap, kids [...]