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Break the Anger Cycle: the best resources for families
I’ll never forget holding my firstborn baby in my arms. Seeing her tiny toes and long fingers, hearing her gentle coos, and smelling her newborn head made my heart burst with gratitude. I remember...
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3 Ways Community Keeps Us Needy and Why That Is a Good Thing
“Where’s my jacket?” my eleven-year-old daughter asked. There was panic in her voice. She frantically darted around our hotel room. First, she checked the closet. Next, our suitcases. Then, near the...
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4 Tips to Fight for Quality Time in Your Marriage
If your life is anything like ours you are constantly fighting against the clock. From getting up early for work to homeschooling the children and making sure they are where they need to be during the...
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What to Do When You and Your Spouse Feel Out of Sync
“I’m going to go to the other room and let you cook,” Ted said with frustration in his voice. Somehow the simple choice of which kind of pasta noodles to make had resulted in a confusing and irrational...
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One simple way you can connect with your kids TODAY
She made a mistake. It was small and relatively insignificant, but she didn’t want to ask for help. Pride nor insolence motivated her ; it was fear that kept her from turning to her parents. She was...
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Moms, We Need Each Other
The Mommy Wars. It’s a term that’s been tossed around for a few decades now. It reemerges from time to time in the news, social media, and in the blogosphere and all the old conflicts and arguments...
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5 Date Night Movies Both Husbands and Wives Will Enjoy
Did you know that date night movies aren’t merely an easy and affordable option when finances are tight and babysitters are busy? They also uniquely meet both a husband’s need for side-by-side bonding...
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How to Protect Your Kids in a Digital World
Her sobbing was the first thing I heard when I answered the phone, and my mind raced to figure out what had happened. Brokenhearted, she shared how her innocent, tender-hearted, seven-year-old son had...
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How to Tell If You Isolate Yourself During Sorrow
“Whew! It’s ants and bees,” my fourth grader dramatically stated. “These pictures aren’t as scary as the ones of other bugs.” We were halfway through a unit on insects and spiders for science. We’d...
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When Loss Makes the Holidays Hard
I never imagined spending the first day of a holiday weekend in the ER, my body racked with flu-like symptoms brought on by a miscarriage in process. But there I was. My husband Ted and I sat in a...
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How to Help your Family Look Back and Celebrate the Year
How do you typically end your year? Do you have family traditions or regular habits to look back and acknowledge all you’ve experienced and the ways you’ve grown? Do you celebrate what God has done? I...
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3 Ways to Improve Communication in Your Marriage Today
In today’s world there are so many things competing for our attention. If we are not careful we allow things into our lives that have no place and this can cause a rift in our relationships. Over the...
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3 Prayers for a Better Marriage
One of the first things God taught us about marriage was the importance of praying for our marriage covenant. He showed us that prayer was a key component to protecting our marriage covenant from the...
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How Conversations with God Bless Your Marriage
As a Christian couple we have learned that our conversations with God have a direct correlation with the health of our marriage. We noticed that the stronger we are in our faith, the more boldly we...
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What Scripture Says about Children
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.” It’s a verse most of us know and use (often) when correcting or shepherding our kids. In fact, in our family, it’s one of the verses our...
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Eight Prayers Every Parent Should Pray for Their Children
There’s nothing like parenting to send you to your knees. As kids grow, we moms and dads are faced with new challenges, bigger questions, and “how in the world do I handle this?!” moments. That’s when...
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4 Little Habits that Speak Volumes in Your Marriage
One of the beautiful things we have discovered about marriage is that the simple habits we create are what build the foundation for the lasting legacy we leave behind. In our 20+ years of being...
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Eliminate Entitlement : 3 Easy (but effective) Ways to Cultivate Compassion...
Entitlement. My dictionary tells me it means “the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.” While the dictionary might tell me what it means, kids all around show me....
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Five of the Best Compliments We Can Give Our Children
I shower my children with praise and encouragement every chance I get. Why? Not to puff them up—humility is a great virtue I hope to instill in my kids as well as confidence—but rather to point them...
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Choosing to Forgive
Do your choices impact onlookers with the love of Jesus? Join us in welcoming one of our newest contributors, Kristin Joy, to For The Family to encourage you in your relationships. ~Pat and Ruth From...
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