Parent Resources
Websites
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Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. They provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God's design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
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Family Life Today
Family Life provides multiple resources that help people build stronger homes and communities. Here, they list numerous resources about parenting with specific topics of interest such as character development, praying for your children, raising boys, raising girls, and much more.
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CPYU Parent Page
The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers. Here, you can subscribe to a monthly newsletter designed to help keep parents informed about the latest happenings and trends in the world of youth culture.
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Axis
This organization's goal is to empower the next generation to think clearly and critically about what they believe and to take ownership of their faith. They do this not by outsourcing parents, but by resourcing them to disciple and transfer legacy to their children as they face life's questions and challenges. Those resources can be found on their website.
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Parenting Teens Summit
This is a free online conference designed for parents and grandparents to understand their teens and preteens and better connect with them by providing practical advice from Christian leaders and authors on how to disciple your teens into lifelong faith in Jesus.
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Parenting Today's Teens
The Parenting Today's Teens radio program and daily newsletters offers biblical insights and practical wisdom for parents wanting a deeper relationship with their teen.
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DivorceCare for Kids
DivorceCare for Kids is a divorce recovery support group to help your children, 5-12 years of age, heal from the pain caused by a separation or divorce.
Books & Articles
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Adventures in Odyssey / October 25, 2017 Podcast
Created for children ages 8-12 (but loved by listeners of all ages), Adventures in Odyssey is a 30-minute drama that combines the faith lessons parents appreciate with characters and stories that kids love.
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A Parent's Guide to Today's Technology / January 29, 2018
by Daniel Huerta, Focus on the Family Vice President of Parenting & Youth - The goal of this resource is to encourage you to stop and think about the technology your family uses. It will also help you understand and navigate the pitfalls of today's most popular digital platforms and games. Technology will capture our children's attention. As parents, we need to educate and support them in developing healthy technology habits. God, through His Word, tells us to be attentive, be authentic and pursue unity with one another. That's great advice on how to live - and how to act in our use of technology.
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The Art of Parenting: Aiming Your Child's Heart Toward God
Experience God's truth and apply his Word in your family by focusing your attention on crucial elements in your children's lives.
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Back To School Series
This series includes 3 articles where you can find some great ideas for getting back into your family's school routine.
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Christ Centered Parenting Online Bible Study
These 6 sessions will give you more confidence as a parent, help you instill a biblical worldview into your children, and equip you to talk to your kids about today's tough cultural issues, including: gender issues; suicide, depression, and anxiety; pornography; addiction and coping mechanisms; technology; and singleness, dating, marriage, and divorce.
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Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad
This book offers readers some insight on being an effective, empathetic, and empowered single parent, answering crucial questions such as: How do I find peace when everything around me is chaos? How do I manage meeting needs when I have nothing to give? How and where do I begin again? The author addresses the fears and exhaustion of single parenting, while revealing the keys to gaining strength and courage for each day. He also shares how he found his "solo" relationship with his heavenly Father through his "solo" parenting season. Readers will learn five helpful habits and practical healing principles they can immediately apply in this season of life.
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Gospel-Centered Parenting
Author Todd Friel, host of the syndicated program "Wretched TV," talks to parents of prodigals who feel they are to blame for their child's waywardness. Friel reminds parents that it's their job to be faithful parents and live the gospel in their child's presence. It's God's job to bring their children to repentance and faith.
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In This Together Podcast
With a transparent and non-shaming approach, this podcast uses story and offers realistic next steps on every family topic they cover. They also go behind the scenes to interview leaders to draw out the secrets they use to be families who live free, love well, and lead with excellence.
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Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids
Devotions written as if Jesus is speaking directly to a child's heart. Based on her original Jesus Calling, this version has been adapted in a language and fashion that kids and tweens can relate to their everyday lives.
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Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional
The wonder and awe of the Christmas season can easily get overshadowed by lights, tinsel, bows, and paper-not to mention last-minute trips to the mall and visits to the in-laws. In all the hustle and bustle, we often lose sight of what's most important. This book of daily readings for the month of December by best-selling author Paul David Tripp will help you slow down, prepare your heart, and focus on what matters most: adoring our Savior, Jesus.
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Parenting with Love and Logic
This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.
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Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
In this life-giving book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God's plan for us as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, he shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God-grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents.
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Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
Basic conflict-resolution skills found in Scripture can help you change your home from a battle zone to a love nest. Distinguishing between positive and negative conflict resolution, Peacemaking for Families introduces the reader to valuable principles such as "The Peacemaker's Pledge," the "Seven A's of Forgiveness," and the "PAUSE Principle of Negotiation." Real-life stories and case studies help the reader to acquire the skills needed to create a true "peacemaking family."
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Raising Kingdom Kids: Giving Your Child a Living Faith
From the bestselling author of Kingdom Man and Kingdom Woman, Raising Kingdom Kids equips parents to raise their children with a Kingdom perspective and also offers practical how-to advice on providing spiritual training as instructed in Scripture. This book is for every dad or mom who wants to fulfill the parenting role God has given them?not just in raising healthy kids intellectually, physically, and socially, but in contributing to their child's relationship with God and alignment under His plan.
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Reclaiming the Smartphone: 4 Important Conversations
Join Axis for this free video series to Reclaiming the Smartphone in your life and the life of your teens. These free videos will help you answer the 5 vital questions all parents are asking about their teens' smartphones.
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Screaming Data-How To Hear Your Kid's Passions And Strengths By Observing Their Actions With Frank Tate
Too often, we don't listen to our kids' passions or see their strengths because we're too busy trying to make them into the people we want them to become. In this podcast episode, Frank Tate shares how to listen to your kids' screaming data; why parents should be editors, not authors; how to avoid GPS (Generational Peer Stress) Parenting; what "goodwill shaming" is and why we do it; why you should give data-based praise; and how to champion your child's inner genius (and potentially save lots of money on a college education).
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Shepherding a Child's Heart
Written for parents with children of any age, this insightful book provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child's heart into the paths of life. Shepherding a Child's Heart gives fresh biblical approaches to child rearing.
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Sticky Situations: 365 Devotions for Kids and Families
Sticky Situations is a devotional book for families with children ages 8 to 12 that offers short readings for each day of the year. Each reading begins with a kid who is facing a moral dilemma and ends with multiple-choice solutions for the family to discuss. Parents will find tips in the back of the book that interpret the various choices made by the children and offer follow-up questions for further discussion on each topic. Scripture references are provided to give biblical insight into each situation.
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The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media. Andy Crouch shows readers that the choices we make about technology have consequences we may never have considered.
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Your Teenager Is Not Crazy: Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You A Better Parent
Organized by what we hear teens say--things like I'm bored, You just don't understand, Why are you freaking out?, I hate my life!, or Hold on... I just have to send this--this book helps parents develop compassion for their teens and discernment in parenting them as their brains are progressively remodeled. Rather than seeing the teen years as a time to simply hold on for dear life, Dr. Jeramy and Jerusha Clark show that they can be an amazing season of cultivating creativity, self-awareness, and passion for the things that really matter.
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The 5 Love Languages of Children
Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell help you discover your child's love language, assist your child in successful learning, use the love languages to correct and discipline more effectively, and build a foundation of unconditional love for your child. Discover your child's primary language - then speak it - and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.
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12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid
You're deeply committed to helping your kids succeed. But you're concerned? Why are so many graduates unprepared to enter the workforce and face life on their own? You're doing your best to raise healthy children, but sometimes you wonder, am I really helping them?