Warning Signs That Your Spouse Has Mental Health Issues
https://youtu.be/gCfsFw25MJA When spouses stay alert to changes in each other, they can catch warning signs of possible mental health ...
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Parenting Emerging Adults: Boundaries and Limits
Navigating a role shift when adult children stay or move back home. A Cultural Shift Recently, my husband and I were having dinner with another ...
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How to Be a Good Dad: 7 Ways to Be the Father Your Kids Need
Dads matter. So how can you make a lasting difference in your children’s lives? Do you remember the moment when you learned you were going to be ...
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How to Find Romance in the Everyday
Some couples would liken their marriages to fairy tale storybooks. They jet off to Paris on a whim and frequently post photos from tropical beaches. ...
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The Power of a Father’s Apology
Whether your children are fully grown, or still crawling on your lap, the power of an apology can transform your relationship. “I’m sorry” ...
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How to Create an Emotionally Safe Marriage Environment
My wife, Jenni, is a master at avoiding emotionally unsafe situations. When we were first married, I often wanted to talk to her (lecture might be a ...
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The Wounded Spirit: What Childhood Bullying Leaves Behind
Bullying. It's a childhood rite of passage. Just ignore it. You'll get over it. Except most likely you won't. Frank Peretti knows this firsthand. ...
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Building Lasting Faith in Kids: Proven Ideas From Sticky Faith Research
The research results have been rolling in, study after study, for over ten years now, and the story they tell is a disconcerting one: nearly half of ...
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The Gift of Loneliness
When was the last time you were lonely? Was it when you stood in a crowd of 5,000 cheering people? When you visited with a friend, or when you lay ...
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12 Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On When Your Kids are Trying Your Patience
Parenthood is full of wonderful surprises – priceless moments we’ll never forget. It might be an unexpected, "I love you", whispered in our ear, ...
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“Don’t Tell Me to Take a Walk!” – What Really is Self Care?
"You cannot pour from an empty cup. You must fill your cup first." - Dr. Karyn Purvis Three years ago, I was preparing to speak to a ...
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Peacemaking Takes Practice!
Peacemaking takes practice… I was teaching some peacemaking principles to some primary-school age kids recently, and we went through an imaginary ...
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