As a Christian Mom, you know in your heart it is important to encourage your child to pray. But how to do it can be another story! We have 5 kids all with different personalities and gifts and all have grasped prayer at different ages and […]
It’s ok, let’s be honest. Have you ever thought “I’m not a good pray-er?” {It may not be a word but it should be based on how many times I’ve heard it from Moms!} What about “I wish I could pray <more/better/longer> […]
Do you ever feel like you are asking your pre-teen a bunch of questions but getting nothing back but crickets? I hear you! When one of our children was a young tween, it was happening to me too. As I prayed and stepped […]
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Are you are looking for a unique and FREE gift to give this Father’s Day? One based on the Bible that will let him know just how much the family cares? I have a great idea for you! We have created this Bible Journaling Keepsake Card […]
“I don’t have a bathing suit body,” the sweet one says as she takes off her shirt on fast forward and jumps in the pool. At the table later, she explains she has lost seven pounds by cutting carbs. The girls are thirteen. Standing behind […]
As a Christian Mom, there is little else more important to my heart then encouraging my tweens in their own walk with the Lord. I understand the importance of doing my best to teach them how to have their own quiet time from tween to […]
Friendship has been described as being the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life. However, today, we bestow the title of friend so freely it is like having a little lettuce with our bacon bit salad. Summertime is the perfect time to help your […]
Guard your heart, my child! As a Christian mother, I lay awake, night after night, asking God for wisdom to guide me in leading my tween child as he grows. I thought a mother could only wish and pray her child was going to turn […]
What do you do when your tween is too old for VBS and too young for the heavier issues of high school, but you still want to give them a love for Jesus? When my daughter, Daley, was in fourth grade, she began to struggle […]
As a mental health professional, I have been working with families of worriers to protect them from anxiety disorders for 20 years. But this past year anxiety hit a little closer to home. We lost my husband’s twin sister to cancer in January. My son was […]
I have the privilege of helping to raise two tween girls who are not my own. They are 10 and 11, and I am immensely grateful to their mom for letting me join her in rearing her children. It sounds lovely to be a parent […]
Hey! I’m Amy, a homeschool soccer mom to 5 boys (3-14). I share these tips and ideas for connecting with your tween boy based on my own experiences as a boy mom. You know your son best. I encourage you to tweak these suggestions, if […]
We will never be perfect parents, but we can always be praying parents. I don’t know about you, but this idea of being a faithful praying parent gives me hope. I struggle with my failures as a mom and need the reminder that I will […]
Hi there! I’ve been working on something I think you will be really excited about… and I am too for our family! Often in parenting, we work hard on getting organized and focused in on the days and weeks tasks. We put effort into planning […]
It might seem as though the tween-age years is too young to think about our children and dating, but it isn’t. While they are tweens is the perfect time to put a plan in place for the future. In fact, if you don’t want your […]
Isn’t God amazing?? Here we are on Day 21 of The 30 Days of Tween Parenting Blog Party and I am already feeling SO blessed! How about you? Are you enjoying it as well? I wanted to take this Sunday to do a couple of […]
Our youngest is now a tween. He has had 7 other siblings who “tweened” before him and none of them was exactly the same. Having been a mom for 26 years, I feel my knees buckling at the thought of starting out as a mom […]
If you ask me, my 11-year-old son Noah is one of the coolest kids on the planet. He is off-the-charts intelligent, quirky and, I think, absolutely hilarious. If his self-concept was based on his mama’s view, there would be no limit to his confidence. Unfortunately, […]
A few years ago we had what I call, with no exaggeration or hyperbole, The Worst. Summer. Ever. My daughter was 12. And she was very good at it. Nothing anyone suggested or offered was right. No matter what our plans were, her life was […]
At my 24 week checkup of child number 2, the ultrasound technician happily informed me that the precious bundle of joy I was carrying was a boy. I cried. No, I wept, maybe wailed is more like it. I did NOT want a boy. I […]
