PURE IN HEART To be pure is to be clean, wholesome, and abstain from evil or wrongdoing. In church culture or society, purity typically used in reference to a person’s sexual behavior. It is very common in church culture to have teens take a purity […]

  Pornography. Not a topic that is comfortable. We don’t like to talk about it. It’s kept on the ‘down-low’. We don’t know how to talk about it! If we don’t talk about it, then it doesn’t exist. Then it’s not a threat. Until it […]

Where I Got Hung Up When My Girls Were Growing Up  Raise a godly girl? Raising a girl is hard enough! What does raising a godly girl even mean? Does it mean raising a girl who is loving, joyful, peaceful? Yes, these are all characteristics […]

In the world of Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, how do we raise girls who know their worth? Thousands of pictures scroll before their eyes daily. How can we instill in them the barometer of what is a good picture to post and what is […]

Have you ever known a bossy girl? If not… Hi, I’m Amy, and I’m a bossy girl. 😉 Maybe you are a bossy girl like me. Maybe you have a bossy daughter in your home, too. If not, you likely have been on the receiving side […]

Moms and dads dread the “P” word:puberty. With it comes hormone flux, mood swings, back-talk (or sass), and lots of parents end up cowering in the corner not knowing what to do about it. Especially when it comes to your tween and their crush. You […]

I know what you are probably thinking “my daughters aren’t moms”. But they will be someday. The time to train and impart knowledge of a biblical worldview and unshakable faith to our daughters is fleeting. A majority of us were not raised to be godly […]

Parents: I’ve put together this post to help get the conversation going with your tweens and teens as part of the Raising Godly Girls series. Have your tween/teen read this and then talk about it together. 4 Problems You Experience When You have Sex before […]

I have a confession to make: I’m in love with the tween years. Call me crazy, but this little space in time between approximately age 9 and 12, it’s simply unique and I find something new to adore about my daughters almost every day. But […]

My ten-year-old is starstruck. Not by Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift or any of the usual suspects, praise the Lord, but by a couple of teenage YouTubers. These sweet, smiley twins started out as hairstyle models for their parents’ YouTube show and then spun off […]

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  If you’ve been a girl mom for any length of time, you’ve probably struggled to find acceptable wardrobe options for her. Skinny jeans, plunging necklines, and pants plastered with saying across the rear abound on the clothing store racks. Costumes for dance recitals seem […]

Raising Godly Girls: Prayer Provides Natural Opportunity By Emily and Claire Musters  *Today we have the privilege of reading a “faith lived out” Mother & Daughter post from my overseas friend Claire Musters and her lovely daughter Emily!* Emily shares: I have a friend at school who recently revealed to […]

I’m a mom of a teen who is under attack and struggling for her life. This is what I shared with her recently: When you were eleven, major changes occurred. We moved from Pioneer Village (a somewhat rural area of town) to downtown Louisville, Kentucky. […]

How to Parent a Child Who Pushes Away the Things of God The nighttime routine with one sister had been sweet: We had shared highs and lows from the day, said our nightly rote prayers—one of which we wrote together—and then talked and prayed about […]

Don’t Take Score at Halftime! I watch college football for HOURS every weekend. It begins with the Thursday night game and doesn’t end until I’ve checked the new rankings on Sunday mornings. We are Auburn fans here at Underwood Estates—huge Auburn fans. And while my […]

Are You Raising a Godly Girl? She is the sweet baby girl you held in your arms. She is the darling of your heart. You wish to protect her innocence and keep her safe. But Mama, a time comes when to do both, you need […]

Raising Godly Girls requires respect. Do you Respect your daughters? Of course! For most of us that would be our first response to this question. It was mine, but as I’ve looked more closely at my relationship with my daughters I’ve found that I’m not […]

Anyone who has ever read my blog or listened to my podcast knows that I went through a long phase of legalism during my teen years. The primary way this legalism played out in my own personal life was in my practice of taking man’s […]

Raising Godly Girls: Encouragement to “Do the Hard Parts” of Parenting I can’t help but wonder if David avoided creating boundaries with his sons because of David’s own guilt? According to 1 Kings1:6, King David “never interfered with [Adonijah] by asking, ‘Why do you behave […]

Girls today are faced with scary, heartbreaking statistics when it comes to body image. Over 80% of 10-year-olds are afraid of being fat 53% of 13-year-old American girls are unhappy with their bodies. This number grows to 78% by the time girls reach 17. By […]