Are your daily parenting demands causing you stress? Constantly completing household tasks, managing emotions, and regulating behaviors isn’t easy. In fact, being a parent is an inherent sacrifice of self.
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Expressing gratitude may come easy on Thanksgiving, but practicing gratitude in your day-to-day life also has several mental health benefits!
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The Smartphone is an extremely useful piece of technology; it helps us find our way around, read about things we find interesting, talk to our friends, and do a hundred other things we don’t even think about.
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A LD (learning disability) or ADHD diagnosis is not the end of the world, but it is the beginning of a new set of challenges for parent and child alike.
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“If you don’t heal from what hurt you, you will bleed on people who didn’t cut you.”
-Author Unknown
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Talking to kids about drugs can be difficult and feel heavy. But, the reality is that regular conversations about this critical topic will prepare them to confront this threat when it arises in their lives.
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With internet use steadily increasing among both kids and adults, never has it been so important to talk to your kids about internet pornography. The truth is, in this modern age, internet pornography is both instant and invasive. Today, kids are being bombarded with sexual messages through videos, movies, and music.
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Think back to your childhood: Did your parents sit you down and have "the talk" or did they skirt around the topic and allow you to find the answers on your own? Talking about sex with your child can feel intimidating and scary.
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Parents play a pivotal role in the lives of their children. From being caretakers providing guidance and support, to standing as allies in adversity, parents should be a safe resource for their kids to confide in.
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Being a teenager is tough. Not only do teens compare themselves to their classmates, but they also have the entire online world telling them how they should look and act. When teens struggle to make friends or find themselves in unfamiliar social situations, it can be difficult for them to build confidence.
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Being a mother is demanding, and often moms are also hard on themselves. It's not uncommon for mothers to develop guilt and wonder whether they are doing enough or where they have gone wrong raising their children.
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With Mother's Day in our rearview mirror, we want to pause and dispel four myths about motherhood.
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Family bonds and connections are a wonderful part of life and a sign of a well-functioning family. But sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.
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How we attach to our partners, friends, children, etc. as adults, depends greatly on the attachment that we formed with our caregivers during childhood. If we have secure attachments with our caregivers as children, we are more likely to form secure attachments as adults, likewise if our attachments to our caregivers are insecure or unstable as children we are likely going to carry that into our adult relationships as well.
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Fathers have a huge impact on their kids. Many who grow up without a father have a huge hole in their life. Even Lebron James, with enormous fame, financial, and career success, still has a wound caused by an absent father and is affected today by not having a father.
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According to Romans 12:15-21 (NIV), we are called to put our love into action by practicing empathy towards each other. As a parent this may lead you to wonder the best way to teach your children empathy.
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Have you ever watched your child or grandchild have a melt down over a minor issue, like dropping a lollipop? This is a perfect example of a child’s lack of perspective or self-regulation.
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Are you concerned about your children’s social, emotional and spiritual development? Do you want your children to become healthy, emotionally stable and spiritually mature adults?
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Have you ever been caught off guard by a question? Most likely you’d say yes and can even recall the process of mentally stumbling to find some sort of reasonable answer. Now imagine that the question is “Can I like girls and boys?” and it’s being asked by your child.
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