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The God of Play: Joyfully Embrace the Playful Side of God With Your Kids | Ep. 182
Today, we talk with Joy Wendling, Connected Families Certified Parent Coach and founder of Created to Play, about helping kids come to love God wholeheartedly. Faith can sometimes feel serious or heady, but God is also the God of play,โฆ
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Do You Love Family Travel? (Or Not So Much?!)
If you love family travel time, we want to share some ideas that will both deepen your love of family travel AND your familyโs faith and values. But maybe you donโt always love it so muchโฆ We get it. Sometimesโฆ
Self-Affirmation for Kids: A Fun Idea to Build Your Childโs Inner Confidence
The Simple Way We Taught Our Kids to Value What They Did Well
Beat Boredom This Summer With These 4 Tips
Research has shown that being bored is not such a bad thing for kids. ย Boredom can foster creativity and patience. ย Yet, when a parent hears that tired phrase, โIโm bored!โ again and again, we may feel the need to fixโฆ
A Surprisingly Powerful Strategy to Spice Up Your Christmas
Last Christmas I pulled out Godโs Word to read the familiar passages of Luke 2:4-20 to my niece and nephews and extended family. The version I read from was the Hawai’i Pidgin Bible (โDa Jesus Bookโ), a Wycliffe translation ofโฆ
Beat Boredom with These Four Tips
ย Research has shown that being bored is not such a bad thing for kids. ย Boredom can foster creativity and patience. ย Yet, when a parent hears that tired phrase again and again, we may feel the need to “fix” theโฆ
What’s Your Child Really Saying?
It was the first warm day of spring in Minnesota, which usually means MUD. The ground was still soggy from the snow melt, but the air was clean and fresh and the flowers were just beginning to peek through the soil. I was outside with two of our three kids...
The Joy of Family Chores: A Tale of Two Moms
In a family, we all need each other. We are a team, and we share in the responsibility of the household. โGod has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to beโโฆ
How to Help Your Kids Like Each Other
At times, children naturally enjoy each other. But conflict is inevitable. If parents allow it, isolated conflicts can turn into a persistent rivalry withย the power to dominate their childrenโs relationships with each other. In other words, if we wait forโฆ
10 Screen-Free Ways to Have Fun With Your Kids
We have talked before about some โDOs and DONโTsโ of how to peel your kids off the screen. It may seem difficult to help your kids discover fun alternatives to their action-packed video games or TV shows, but it canโฆ