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Yearly Archives: 2016

Who Are Your Kids Associating With? by Joey & Carla Link ©April 2016 I remember the day Carla told me about two teenage girls who knocked at our door and asked “Is Michael there?” These girls were dressed in a way no mother would want her son to be looking at. Thankfully, Michael wasn’t home. […]

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Rose-Colored Glasses or God-Glasses?

Rose-Colored Glasses or God-Glasses? by Joey and Carla Link ©March 2016 In case you’re wondering, it is normal for kids (especially when they hit the early teen years), to put on rose-colored glasses and do things that just don’t make sense. Your boys take off on a bike ride with their friends without asking permission. […]

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Celebrating Easter

Celebrating Easter  Joey & Carla Link        © March 2016  Spring is just around the corner, although for many of us, the normal winter weather has yet to appear! While Christmas is a wonderful time to teach our children about the blessed gift of Jesus Christ, families often get caught off-guard in the springtime, and […]

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Quality Time or Quantity Time

Quality Time or Quantity Time        Joey & Carla Link        © March 2016 What is more important, to spend quality time or quantity time with you kids? This question has been around for years. We can make a case for both, but we are fairly certain you can too so we aren’t going to […]

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Does Your Child Have A GPS?

Does Your Child Have A GPS? Joey and Carla Link February 2016   As a young man in boy scouts, I learned to read maps as we went backpacking in the High Sierra Mountains. It was essential to know which trail to take to get to our destination. Today, reading and learning to interpret maps […]

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