Family & Parenting

Most toddlers share one thing in common – they want their own way. We’ve all seen the “throw yourself on the floor” tantrums that often shows up as a result.  But what’s a parent to do when the kicking and screaming starts? We’d like to share a few helpful suggestions. Most importantly, when your child […]

For 20 years, Jessie Minassian has been a spiritual “big sis” to teen girls and young women. She offers encouragement about love, dating, loneliness, purity, and living out faith in relevant ways. She’s joining me on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to help teen girls create a godly identity – from which comes

Tyrone Flowers knows firsthand the challenges that at-risk children face in our culture today. His father was murdered when Tyrone was ten years old. After his mother made it clear that she didn’t want to be a mother, he lived with his grandmother and her 12 children. While she worked multiple jobs, Tyrone was raised

God calls many women to positions of leadership and influence. That’s a gift to any community because women are often more collaborative, participative and inclusive than their male counterparts. If God has led you into leadership, I encourage you to listen to my conversation with author Deborah Pegues on Focus on the Family with Jim

Here’s an eye-opening stat for you: research shows that children spend an average of seven hours and 22 minutes on their phones every day! That’s even more troubling when you consider studies that show a connection between pervasive technology use and rising levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts in children and teens. How much

When things go wrong, we say, “Life spiraled downward.” What we mean is that bad choices quickly multiply. But good choices multiply as well. In the same way that life can spiral downward, it can also spiral upward. How? One small step at a time. Nobody likes being told to be patient. Suggestions like, “Take

Some people believe the definition of marriage should be anything we want it to be. No exclusions. No boundaries. The problem with that idea is the fabric of reality itself. Marriage was created to function within a particular design because it’s powerful – so powerful that we need guardrails to channel its influence. To understand

My dad left our family when I was five years old and died an alcoholic a few years later. My mom died when I was nine. Hank, my stepdad, walked out on my siblings and me the day of her funeral. After that, I lived with a foster family for a year, but they were

According to the National Association of Anorexia and Associated Disorders, someone will die from an eating disorder every 52 minutes. One in five women experience an eating disorder by age 40, and 95% of eating disorders begin before age 25. Those shocking number underscore the serious nature of this tragic problem. Eating disorders are complex

Jack Canfield, the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, says comparing yourself to other people is a “fast track to unhappiness.” Comparison distorts our vision. One moment, we see all that we have – the next, we see all that we wish we had. When our focus is directed outward, we think