Equipping Parents for The Journey
April is National Autism Awareness Month, something near to the hearts of so many families we know. If you are not directly impacted by autism in your family, you probably know another family raising a child or loving an adult on the spectrum. Raising a child with autism can be an isolating, frustrating, and...
In the daily crush of stay-at-home orders, quarantines, gloves, masks, updates on the number of infected and deaths, school at home, and so on, there is great temptation tell our kids that "everything will be okay." But in our effort to soothe their fears, are we setting them up for a crisis of faith?...
We are all losing something these days. You might be telling yourself, you are fine, you just need to get through. But are you? In this Parenting Pathway podcast, we will discuss what grief looks like and how we can understand that there is healing and closure on the other side....
Telling the Easter story can be confusing and even a little scary for our little ones. After all, we tend to use lots of words they are not familiar with, and we talk a lot about death. So in our "stay at home" situation, our Ministry Leader for Early Childhood, Kristin Langford, provides us...
Once upon a time, there was a family—a mom, dad and three precious children, who lived in a beautiful house in the suburbs of North Dallas. Life was fairly normal for this family of five, until one day during dinner, the father shared a passage from the Bible in 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 with his...
It seems counter intuitive to look at this time in history as an opportunity. But why not take the challenge to change the view of all that is going on in the world under a different lens. What if you were to step back and instead of focusing on the limitation you and...
It seems the world has been turned upside down. But one thing we can count on is that your new baby will still need to be fed, changed, snuggled, and loved. Even if you have been a parent for a long time, and your baby is no longer a baby, there is good advice...
In our recent Straight Talk: Raising Digital Natives, we shared insights and recommendations to help you step into your iGeneration’s digital universe and parent in a world so different from the one you grew up in. Who is an iGeneration or Digital Native? The iGeneration was born after the year 2000 and is the...
A long time ago, an enormous group of people found themselves on one side of an uncrossable river looking longingly to the other side. They had traveled a long time to get to this place, but there was no bridge, no ferry, and no way to get to the other side. Until GOD! God...
I used to be so cool! I drove a sports car. My wife and I would eat out all the time. I was in really great-ish shape. Saturday mornings, I would sleep in. It seemed like we were doing too many fun things, but this was before we had kids. Before having kids, I...
The Beauty in a Long Marriage Dennis and June Brady began their marriage adventure on a snowy Saturday in January of 1965. Over the past 55 years of marriage, they have lived a full life, raising two children and now being blessed with three grandchildren. We asked them to share their story with us...
In part two of our Parenting Pathway series Mentoring and Modeling Approach to Parenting, Dr. Andi Thacker, Associate Professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and licensed professional counselor, talks about parenting and raising girls in our modern culture. The natural temptation in parenting today is to create a path for our kids rather than preparing...
