Category: Parenting
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10 Ways to Encourage Our Young Children to Maintain Sexual Purity
Note: This week we have Dr. Rebecca Huizen, D.O. as our guest contributor. She is a pediatrician at Christian Healthcare Centers, a distinctively Christian membership-based primary care medical office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She and her husband Scott have four children and they work together to homeschool. ________________________________ 1. Start talking to your children early about biblical…
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Teaching Your Kids to Fight against Anxiety
Note: This week we have Dr. Rebecca Huizen, D.O. as our guest contributor. She is a pediatrician at Christian Healthcare Centers, a distinctively Christian membership-based primary care medical office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She and her husband Scott have four children and they work together to homeschool. ____________________ Every child’s battle with anxiety looks different.…
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My Father-in-law’s Advice to Me
I’m blessed to have a godly and wise father-in-law, Rev. Bartel Elshout, who is known for his translation of Wilhelmus à Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service. I so much value his wisdom in that whenever I need to make an important decision I always seek his counsel. Recently, I asked him if there’s any advice…
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How Should We View Our Children?
I cannot recall how many times I met people who honestly told me that they did not want to have children because children would just interfere with their lives. They viewed children as a burden, rather than a blessing. In fact, a certain woman frankly told me that she was too selfish to have a…
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10 Tips on Handling Our Children’s Anger
In his book How to Really Love Your Teenager, Ross Campbell says that “one of the most important areas in which a teenager needs training is in how to handle anger….Anger is normal and occurs in every human being. The problem is not the anger itself but in managing it. This is where most people…
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12 Reasons Why I love Being a Stay-at-Home Mom
I recently posted this quote by James Dobson on my Facebook page: “There is no more important job in the universe than to raise a child to love God, live productively, and serve humanity. How ridiculous that a woman should have to apologize for wanting to fulfill that historic role.” One of the mothers who…
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Adam: His Wedding, Work, & Woe (Part 2 of 3)
Adam’s Work “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” (Gen. 2:15). Adam’s work is two-fold as far as his role as a husband is concerned. First, God has placed Adam in the garden in order for Adam to provide for his wife.…
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Parenting with Humility
Do you raise your children with humility? When was the last time you said “I am sorry” to your son or daughter when you sinned against them? Do you discipline them with anger, or with love? Let’s learn from the wise counsel of Ted Tripp regarding humble parenting. Humility in Your Task Understanding that…
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