Year: 2022
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Teaching Your Children the Joy of Giving
By Joey and Carla Link December 7, 2022 Why do we give gifts at Christmas? Those who believe in and love God do so because it is a way of honoring the gift He gave us in His Son Jesus, through whom we have the promise of eternal life. We do wonder why celebrating Christmas…
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Grateful Kids
By Joey and Carla Link November 16, 2022 “What does it take to get grateful kids? It doesn’t matter what they get, they always want more.” Have you ever thought this about your kids? I know there are times I thought this about mine. The opposite of gratefulness is selfishness. From wanting a bigger or better…
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3 Steps to Plan Good Stuff in Your Child’s Heart
By Joey and Carla Link November 9, 2022 You have told your 6 yr. old son he has to be kind to his 4 yr. old sister no matter what. God said to be kind to each other and so that is what you all were going to do. (Ephesians 4:32) Yet time and time…
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Give Your Kids the “Why”
By Joey and Carla Link November 2, 2022 When kids want to know something, they ask you “why?” This would be especially true of little kids. “Why is the grass green” “Why is the sky blue?” “Why do you stop when the light is red and go when the light is green?” The first 2…
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Positive Ways to Teach and Train Your Kids
By Joey and Carla Link October 26, 2022 In a recent Zoom parenting class, we were leading, every parent in the class admitted they yelled at their kids, which is a common parenting problem. It is a problem because harsh responses to your child’s wrong behavior can affect your child for the rest of his/her life. It also affects the level of respect your child will have for…
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Discipline is a Positive Word
By Joey and Carla Link October 19, 2022 It is obvious your 7 yr. old child needs something more than you have been giving him to get him to stop hitting his siblings when he doesn’t get his own way. Both you and your spouse have talked to him many times. You have threatened him, bribed him,…
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Are Weeds Choking the Good From Your Child’s Heart?
By Joey and Carla Link October 12, 2022 Weeds. There is nothing positive about that word. If you are a gardener, it means it is time to get out there and pull them. But pulling them isn’t enough. If you don’t get them by the roots then they will pop up again and again. The…
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Review the Expectations Before You Get There
By Joey and Carla Link September 28, 2022 You are at church visiting with friends. Out of the corner of your eye you notice your kids starting to run around inside the building with other kids, not paying attention to where they are going. You tell them to settle down and stop running. When that…
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Positive Parenting
By Joey and Carla Link September 21, 2022 So much of our parenting in the early years can be summed up in these words, “No, No, NO!” This is not a positive word by any means, but in the early years a necessary one. Rarely are we in the home of a family with toddlers and preschoolers that,…