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50 Questions To Ask Your Kids Instead Of Asking “How Was Your Day”
Dinner is a great time for people to engage in conversations. Here are some great questions. So I asked our writers to share some of their favorite conversation starters with their kids. These are especially great after a long school day when your babies don’t want to...
How To Actually Comfort Your Partner During An Anxiety Attack (Because Saying ‘Don’t Worry’ Does Nothing)
We often talk about how someone struggling with anxiety or panic can help themselves but we rarely seem to talk about how loved ones can support people in this tough moment. This is a really good practical article on how to help people going through a panic attack....
A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world
Do you see yourself in these photos? If so changes need to be made. Are you reading this on a handheld device? There’s a good chance you are. Now imagine how’d you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy? Perhaps next to a person being...
We Can Change the World by Changing the Way We Raise Boys
Saw this online yesterday and loved it. Thought I would share it with you in case you have not seen it. Well worth the read. Click here for the entire article. Men do not have to give up their masculine nature. They have to redefine it. They don’t need to be warriors...
Serving Parents Who Do Not Go To Your Church
This is a really good article for anyone who works with students in the church world. I have often said that a Jr/Sr High Pastors job needs to be educating and empowering parents as well. As a parent myself I had to take a second and try and figure out if I am one of...
8 Things Kids Need to do *By Themselves* by the Time They’re Teenagers
As parents we must look forward at how we are launching our kids into being young adults and then adults. I really like this article on things our kids need to learn to do for themselves. I do think there is balance that needs to be had. The more my kids do for...
A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s terms of use ‘in plain English’ so kids would know their privacy rights
Great article I read this morning. I think it needs to be explained to not just kids but to people of ALL ages. Other complex paragraphs were similarly condensed to sentences that were easier to digest: “Don’t bully anyone or post anything horrible about people.”...
Common Sense Media Census Measures Plugged-In Parents
As someone who speaks to parents on media I often hear parents talking about how much screen time their kids are having. I love that this article switches this question and asks how much screen time are parents having? It is tough to tell your kids to get off their...
Village Church – Marriage, Sex, Dating, Parenting Series
This past Fall I enjoyed listening to a series from Village Church in BC addressing some of the largest issues we are dealing with as Christians. As I say in my own talks there is such a disconnect with our Sunday's from our Monday's. We need to look at how we connect...
And everyone saw it.
Really great article on Sexting. Something all parents (and students) should read. This is a prevention conversation not something you want to start dealing with after it has happened. I am getting emails or phone calls 2-3 times a month from people struggling with...
