Teaching Truthfulness: 4 Loving Actions To Help the Child Who Lies
How to respond wisely when your child is lying
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Grandparenting Through a New Lens | Ep. 119
Grandparents, we have something specifically for you today! (If you’re a parent, listen and then consider sharing this episode with a grandparent in your life.) You long to build more connection into your relationships with your grandchildren or to be…
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You Really Want To Show Loving Discipline? Start With Your Face.
If you’re reading this right now, you likely want to show love to your kids, even in discipline. You probably already believe unconditional love means loving your kids during misbehavior. You don’t need to be convinced of the benefits of…
Doctrine of Grace in Parenting | Ep. 96
What does the Bible really say about parenting? Is there such a thing as a Doctrine of Grace in Parenting? As Christian parents, we depend on the Bible as a necessary guide to help us understand God’s direction in both…
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Helping Kids with Their Anger
Kids get angry sometimes. So do we. But is it pure anger, or is there something more? It turns out that much of what appears as anger is actually a more tangled and confusing set of feelings like fear, sadness,…
Why Changing Your Parenting Is So Hard | Ep. 80
Why is changing your parenting just so hard? You’ve tried everything to get a better result in your parenting: You’ve read the books, watched the seminars, tried new methods. You know that you want a different approach to your parenting,…
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How to Become an Emotionally Safe Parent
What does it look like to become an emotionally safe parent? Safe parenting can be hard. There are a few key ideas to being a safe parent that were summed up in a conversation with a dad I coached. He…
To Spank or Not to Spank?
If you work with Christian parents, it’s tempting to stay far away from the spanking debate. There are the “never spank” parents, the “immediate obedience or get spanked” parents, and everything in-between. The question over whether to spank or not…
Guiding Kids to Right Their Wrongs | Ep. 26
When your kids misbehave, and you need to discipline them, have you considered what they are learning? Are they learning to submit to angry power? Or, perhaps, are they learning how to get better at hiding their misbehavior and sin?…
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“I thought I had irreparably ‘damaged’ our children.”
We recently heard from Adrianne*, a mom of two young children (6 & 8) after she and her husband completed our 4-session coaching package. We are excited to share her story with you! I was raised in an abusive household,…