More and more kids are choosing to try drugs and alcohol sooner, some as early as eight or nine years old. The earlier children try drugs, the more likely they will develop an addiction. Do you know if your kids are using drugs and alcohol? Here are some clues as well as tips on how to handle this situation.

What’s the most important thing Christian parents should demonstrate in their home to help their kids become successful adults? Marriage and parenting speakers and authors Jay and Laura Laffoon explain this and four other key principles for raising children in an increasingly non-Christian culture.

Romance often blooms at church camp during the summer. Parents and other adult Christians need to carefully guide these young couples into valued friendships – yet recognize that the romance may grow even deeper over the years. Here’s the story of two couples who fell in love at church camp.

A startling high percentage of societal problems in America have a common root cause: boys who grew up without fathers in the home. But a unique faith-based program is successfully demonstrating the difference it makes in a fatherless boy’s life when a Christian man volunteers to show him love, accept him, and mentor him about God and life.

Most mothers who have grown children know the helpless feeling of watching their offspring go through trials. Prayer helps moms bear their adult children’s burdens in a productive way.

The words of Moses in Deuteronomy to the Israelites are incredibly applicable to parenting today.

Feminism goes beyond equal pay for equal work. It’s actually a philosophical system that espouses three beliefs that are contrary to the natural order of things and also conflict with Christianity.

What challenges face a couple with a child who has Down Syndrome? Is there anything in God’s Word that tells us how to act in such circumstances?

The love affair of an irresistibly handsome vampire and a mortal teenage girl in the book and movie “Twilight” has gained wide acceptance among American teens – even Christian teens. But teens and their parents need to realize the story exposes audiences to more than romance. They need to put discerning safeguards in place against this dark culture.

How can grandparents participate in their grandkids’ lives, pass on valued beliefs and interests, and encourage them when the children live hundreds or thousands of miles away? Cheri Fuller, author of 40 books focusing primarily on family relationships, shares some insightful tips.

What will be the result if your children overhear you making critical, negative, or judgmental statements about other people? The far-reaching consequences of such situations may surprise you.

Duane and Deanna Hunt have a unique ministry teaching people in 72 countries about biblical relationship principles as opposed to cultures of abuse, rejection, polygamy and other challenges. Through it all, they’ve learned how to adjust and operate as a team yet still maintain their marriage relationship.

There are pros and cons for homeschooling children. If you’re considering this alternative for your kids, don’t miss these insights from a Christian mom who has homeschooled her four children.

What should parents do to build a healthy sense of self-worth in their children? And should this effort be handled in a different manner if the parents are Christians?

Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” So why do so many children who supposedly were trained in the way they should go depart from that way when they grow up?

It’s a rare mom who doesn’t struggle with anger, but the root cause is often not really her children’s behavior.

Most teens don’t believe in absolute truth, right and wrong, and have grown numb to the pressures and temptations in their culture.

How can a family cope when one of them has a bipolar type of schizophrenia and addiction to alcohol and drugs?

What should a Christian’s response be when encountering irritating people and circumstances?

Issues around raising children are tricky for Christian moms married to non-Christian husbands

As Christian teens and adults, our identities are uniquely vulnerable; how can we stop allowing the theft to happen?

Adolescent/parent relationships do not have to be adversarial. There are some basic tools and tricks of the trade that parents can enlist to ensure their preteen will be ushered into the teenage years and promoted to adulthood with grace and a minimum of discord.

The aching desire to grow up makes teenagers ripe for the lures of worldly temptations. How can we raise our children to battle worldly temptations and win?

Children as young as age eight have admitted to being addicted to pornography. Do you know what your child is viewing on the Internet? There are resources for parents to help turn their addicted children away from porn.

How can Christian parents cope with the life-threatening condition of their child? Here’s advice for going through the trial, especially knowing that other people watch Christians at times of trial to see if their faith is real, and advice for what to do when the trauma is over.

Research shows that reading to a child and teaching children the importance of reading are fundamental to their emotional, educational and developmental success.

Is your daughter facing pressure from boys and likely to be in a situation where she ignores her Christian identity and your parenting guidelines? The good news is you have some options for safeguarding your daughter

What can you do to help at-risk children?

When kids won’t talk, it’s often the parents’ fault; here’s how to change that environment

How can parents show their children what joy is and instill it daily?