parent tips

How You Always Meant to Parent

How You Always Meant to Parent

Discover a practical approach to parenting with great insight into overcoming the distractions life throws at every family. Brian Housman gives broad principles that incorporate spiritual truths vital to maintaining spiritual engagement even through the difficult teen years.

EmpoweringParents.com

EmpoweringParents.com

Empowering Parents has been giving our readers “straight talk and real results” since 2007. We are committed to providing parents and caregivers with sound advice using the same Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles that The Total Transformation and our other programs are based upon.

The Source 4 Parents.com

The Source 4 Parents.com

Jonathan McKee, president of The Source for Youth Ministry, is the author of numerous books including the new Should I Just Smash My Kid's Phone?, and youth ministry books like Ministry By Teenagers, Connect: Real Relationships in a World of Isolation, and the award winning book Jonathan speaks and trains at conferences, churches and events across North America, all while providing free resources for youth workers and parents on his websites, TheSource4YM.com and TheSource4Parents.com. You can follow Jonathan on his blog, getting a regular dose of youth culture and parenting help. Jonathan and his wife Lori, and their three teenagers Alec, Alyssa and Ashley live in California.

The 5 Love Languages of Children

The 5 Love Languages of Children

Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child.

Trophy Child: Saving Parents from Performance, Preparing Children for Something Greater Than Themselves

Trophy Child: Saving Parents from Performance, Preparing Children for Something Greater Than Themselves

Written for every mom who helps too much with homework just to impress the teacher and every dad who takes credit for his daughter’s soccer success, Trophy Child will give parents the encouragement they need to nurture their kids into who God created them to be. Our culture’s obsession with achievement often leads parents to form expectations for their kids based on the world’s standards, not on the Bible. As a result, their kids feel they never measure up. Trophy Child will help modern Christian parents create a home where children find success in following their heavenly Father’s leading for them—and readers know the joy of seeing their children embrace their full potential as children of God.

Modern Parents, Vintage Values: Instilling Character in Today's Kids

Modern Parents, Vintage Values: Instilling Character in Today's Kids

What do I do when my son learns phrases in school that he's not allowed to say at home? How do I teach my daughter caution but not fear? How do I teach my daughter about gratitude when she believes she is entitled to a cell phone and a laptop and everything else that not only she wants, but that all of the kids around her already have?

Birth Order Guy.com - Kevin Leman

Birth Order Guy.com - Kevin Leman

So many of today’s parents are (or feel) clueless about what to do when they’re thrown a curveball. Men don’t understand women (complicated “everything sticks to them like Velcro” creatures that they are), and women think men are as dumb as mud (well, maybe we are sometimes but a little attention and we’ll perform for you like baby seals), so that keeps a guy like me busy! I have the privilege of speaking all over the world, entertaining audiences with my baby-of-the-family wit and commonsense psychology. I’d love to be a part of your world, too. This website is designed to be a rich resource of FUN and practical help for you and your family.