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Dealing With FEAR After Tragedy Day to day life provides opportunities to teach children about God. It’s the job of parents to frame the picture of world events and to help children understand life from God's point of view. Teachable moments become available in times of crisis...
RESOLVING ANGER Doesn't Require Venting When we talk about calming down and controlling anger, we don't mean denying it. Some people may think that controlling anger means ignoring it, pushing it away, or stifling it. That is unproductive. We want to teach children a strategy to address their...
Some Tips for HELPING KIDS DEAL WITH ANGER Anger damages relationships. We help parents every week in our office deal with anger in their families. Here are several guidelines we've found helpful for anger management in a home. When parents and kids work on these things, anger episodes are...
Three Basic FAMILY RULES Rules are important in family life. They clarify expectations and provide opportunities for parents to teach about values. Some parents, however, rely too heavily on rules. They develop lists and family life boils down to a bunch of do's and don'ts. Remember...
BE A COACH to Your Children I'm sure that as you look around you see other families who have rather strange relationships with their kids. Some parents seem to have a boss/servant relationship with their children, as if the parents own their kids. They order them around as if they were...
When Young Children RUN THE OTHER WAY It's hard to get very far in the discipline process if you call to Johnny and he runs the other way. Furthermore, it's not respectful when parents yell across the house or parking lot to their kids. At least part of the solution is to teach children to come...
Let Children LEARN FROM LIFE Parents can sometimes accomplish more by allowing life to be the teacher. We all want our children to grow up to be wise. Wisdom sometimes means that kids struggle with life by themselves and then come out victorious. In order for this to take place, however...
TEACHING CHILDREN WHEN You Mean Business "But my kids won't listen unless I get angry." That's what parents say when we tell them to avoid using anger to get things done. And often it's true, but only because children learn to wait until you're angry before they have to obey. You give your...
Is there a Difference Between HONOR AND RESPECT? When families think about honor, they often restrict their thinking to respectful behavior, being polite, courteous, and having good manners. This is a rather narrow understanding and is only a small portion of what honor actually is...
TRAINING vs CORRECTION Most parents use correction as their tool for changing behavior. That’s not wrong. In fact, God uses correction with us, his children, to help us change. But a heart-based approach to parenting is much bigger than that. In fact, many parents move to...