Helping your teen stay sexually pure
Question: What can we do as parents to help our teenager remain sexually pure? Answer: It all begins at home, and preferably as early as possible in ...
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Why you shouldn’t look back at past relationships
A relationship from my teen years still makes me wince whenever the girl’s name comes to mind. One day, I prayed about looking her up to tell her ...
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Q & A: “Oral sex isn’t sex”
Question: To our dismay, we recently discovered (by stumbling across a journal entry) that our daughter has been involved in oral sex. Even more ...
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Q&A: Helping girls prevent date rape
Question: How do I talk to my teen daughter about the danger of date rape? I've heard that it's becoming more common, and this worries me as a ...
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Valentine’s Day as a Single Parent
It was Valentine’s Day 1996. I was a single mum with three little boys. My heart ached because my husband was celebrating with another woman. I ...
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Monsters and mid-terms: Helping your child cope with anxiety
For adults, stress is an inescapable fact of life. Jesus Himself acknowledged this reality over 2,000 years ago when He said, "In this world you ...
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Q&A: When visits with a step-parent disrupt kids’ behaviour
Question: When my stepchildren come back from their mother’s house, my husband and I find that it takes days to get them back into our normal ...
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Q&A: When mum needs wine to relax
Question: My kids bicker constantly. I feel like I have no control. When I finally get them in bed at night, I grab a glass of wine to calm down. ...
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The ups and downs of being an adopted child
Adoption conjures up a variety of images, some of which are fairly negative. Its portrayal in TV soaps, for example, is rarely accurate and often ...
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Attachment: What adoptive families need to know
I have been an adoption educator for over fifteen years. Years ago, adoption educators warned parents that some adopted children were at risk for ...
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Supporting foster families
On our first day as foster parents, we had ice cream for dinner. My husband and I thought it’d be an afternoon comfort after the "new ...
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4 hurdles to overcome after an affair
Jim sits across from his wife, Kim, who is sobbing deeply. They are each trying to find words that will help them go forward. It’s been three ...
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