Parenting

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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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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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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Navigating midlife remarriage

Ah . . . this will be a breeze. Since our kids are grown and out of the house, Dale and I thought many of the issues of blending families wouldn’t ...

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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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Communicating to teens that sex is a sacred affair

"I’m a Christian, but I don’t understand why the church creates so many rules for sex," 17-year-old Alex says. "Where in the Bible ...

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