The “tight spot” every parent faces when a child melts down may be the exact place where transformation begins.
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Why Parents Should Correct Their Children More Often
When parents avoid correcting their children’s behaviors, they don’t end up with more confident or emotionally healthy children. Instead, they end up with more chaos, more exhaustion — for both the parents and the children — and homes filled with wildness instead of calm.
Father, How Do You Respond?
Men are given the unique opportunity to act as responsive figures in the lives of children, women, and others who they know and interact with during their daily experiences. Each experience with another person brings with it a question: “How will I respond to this moment of need or distress or hardship?”
Parents, Be Not Ashamed to Parent
We are living in a culture that tries to make parents feel ashamed for being parents. A subtle but powerful shame culture is spreading—especially online—that whispers to parents that they are ruining their children if they set boundaries, teach true principles, or say “no” to destructive behaviors.
Your Hardest Family Question: My daughter wants to marry a man with three children
My daughter is not very tolerant of children. She sleeps in late every morning and when she finally gets up, she goes to the sofa to relax before starting her day. Please advise me on how to let this be and not cry every time I’m in a room with them. She and I have always been so close and I don’t want to see this end up as a disaster for her.
Raising Boys Into Good Men: Why Mentorship Matters Now More Than Ever
In a world full of noise, distractions, and digital pull, our boys are quietly falling behind. Not because they’re less capable or less valuable than girls, but because society has shifted its focus—and in doing so, has left many boys without the guidance they need to truly grow into the men God created them to be.
How to Merge Names in the FamilySearch Family Tree
FamilySearch has a new tool that will improve your experience with merging names in the collaborative FamilySearch Family Tree. Because merging names affects the names, dates, places, sources, and relationships for two profiles, reviewing and fixing merges can be complex.
