5 Ways Your Family Can Thrive This Christmas
(and not just survive!)
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Navigating Family Gatherings | Ep. 118
Are you looking forward to celebrating Christmas with family but dreading unsolicited advice from well-meaning relatives? You are not alone. Changes in your daily routines, travel, lack of sleep, and large gatherings set the stage for parenting challenges. Sometimes these…
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Giving Gifts at Christmas: Help Kids Discover the Joy of Giving
(And have a blast doing it!)
How to Bless Your Children in the New Year
Have you ever considered saying blessings for the New Year over your children individually? Especially in a year with such added stress for parents and kids alike, you may be tempted to be painfully aware of everyone’s shortcomings instead of…
Christmas Greetings from Jim and Lynne
It’s always symbolic to us to end the darkest days of each year celebrating Jesus: the Life that came to LIGHT our lives with hope, joy, and salvation. Immanuel forsook glory so that we would not be forsaken in this…
Top 4 Tips to Make This the Best Christmas Yet
Another Christmas season is upon us and many of us are struggling to figure out how to navigate our current reality. We’ve compiled a list of some of our best Christmas posts for you to look at when you have…
Learning Gratitude for Your 3 Most Important Blessings
For most of us, this will be a different sort of holiday season than usual. It has certainly been a challenging year for the whole world. Just search, “If 2020 was a….” and you’ll find some comic relief from all…
Christmas: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
Here are some practical ideas that can help protect the joy of the season and may minimize the likelihood of holiday meltdowns and conflicts. These ideas are anchored in the principle that we all behave better when we feel better!…
Family Gatherings | Ep. 16
You’ve just had a family event and might still be recovering from the overt or passive-aggressive comments from extended family about your kids’ behavior and your parenting choices. Family gatherings can be HARD…especially if we sense that external pressure is…
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3 Steps for Success in Holiday Chaos!
Holidays and other gatherings can be a lot of fun — but they can also be chaotic and overstimulating for kids! Rather than punish your children for misbehavior, be thoughtful ahead of time about how to prepare them for success.…