Category Family Conflict
How to Handle Unsolicited Parenting Advice from Family (4 Grace-Filled Tips)
Feeling judged by family at holiday gatherings? Learn 4 grace-filled ways to handle unsolicited parenting advice while protecting your kids and relationships.
How to Take Advantage of Sibling Rivalry to Explain Emotions and Feelings to a Child
Few things can be more frustrating as a parent than trying to mediate sibling rivalry. You want your kids to be friends but instead they are fighting, badgering, and teasing each other. It feels like you are getting nowhere! Youโฆ
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Are Your Marriage Goals Actually Selfish?
Perhaps youโve read books, been to seminars, listened to sermons or podcasts expounding on the benefits of marriage goals. Maybe youโve even been inspired to set your own marriage goals. What even is a marriage goal? To just โnot getโฆ
Thinking About How to Fix Your Marriage? Try This. | Ep. 52
Do you ever feel like you want to try and fix your marriage? Or change something about your spouse? The solution to this challenge might surprise you! In this podcast, Jim and Lynne Jackson (co-founders of Connected Families) are hostedโฆ
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Family Gatherings | Ep. 16
Youโve just had a family event and might still be recovering from the overt or passive-aggressive comments from extended family about your kidsโ behavior and your parenting choices. Family gatherings can be HARD…especially if we sense that external pressure isโฆ
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My Kids Fight All the Time! | Ep. 4
Itโs summer and the kids are home from school. Is the constant fighting and bickering more than you can take? This week we welcome Lynne Jackson, parent coach and co-founder of Connected Families. She brings stories and practical solutions youโฆ
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Two Questions That Defuse Almost Any Conflict
After working with parents for over twenty years we have learned that there are two critical questions that help guide children toward wisdom. The problem is that parents are so focused on stopping the problem that they frequently miss theโฆ
What Could Have Ruined Our Marriage
During our 30+ years of marriage we had occasionally heard of couples ending their marriage due to infidelity. But, for whatever reason, in 2015 Lynne and I heard story after story of marriages falling apart caused by affairs. It brokeโฆ
Fighting For Love – Even When It’s Hard
Valentineโs Day and anniversaries are often viewed as a barometer for our romantic relationship. But itโs NOT roses and romance a couple days a year that define a relationship โ itโs the deep commitment to fight for connection no matterโฆ
Staying Connected With Your Teen
How can you stay connected to your teen when they push you away? Learn how to build security and connected even when it's hard.