Author: Joey & Carla Link
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My Mom Gave Me the “Mom’s Notes” And I Am SO Glad She Did!
Kari Walters September 10, 2025 The parenting resource Growing Kids God’s Way was a part of both my husband, Caleb’s and my upbringing, though we only knew it from the child’s point of view. After having our firstborn, we knew we needed to look into it more seriously for ourselves. While visiting my mom in Minnesota, she handed…
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What Should You Throw Out of Your Parenting Toolbox?
Joey & Carla Link September 3, 2025 In last week’s blog we talked about what it looks like to consistently train your kids. When there isn’t a plan in place to help us be consistent in the training (both pro-active and re-active) of our kids, we all fall back on two things. Every parent has…
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It Always Comes Back to Being Consistent
Joey & Carla Link August 27, 2025 Your kids are being responsible with the stuff they have to get done and you are quite pleased your home is peaceful at last. Your kids, will start to back off just a little, and if you don’t do anything to stop them, they back off more and…
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Kid Training To-Do’s
Joey & Carla Link August 20, 2025 Moms frequently tell us they intend to catch up on things during the summer. Amongst these things they say they are behind in is training their children, which gets away from parents with the busyness of life. Unfortunately, it tends to “get away” during the summer months too.…
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Do Teens Need Routine?
Joey & Carla Link August 13, 2025 Many of you know we are big on putting babies on a eat/wake/sleep routine. They eat better, sleep better and longer and are happy when they are awake. Routine isn’t only for babies. All kids, including teens do better on a routine. They eat better, sleep better and…
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Do Your Teens Know How to Manage Their Time?
Joey & Carla Link August 6, 2025 Do you tell your kids when it is time to do their chores, like taking out the trash or sweeping the floors? Do you tell them every day to get their homework done and remind them when they have a paper due? Do you remind your daughter to…
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Take a Break So You’re Not Running on Empty
Kristi Rolin July 30, 2025 There were a number of years when our kids were young that I didn’t take time for myself. I just kept pouring into the kids, homeschooling, keeping up with the house, errands, running the kids to their activities, and then dropping into bed exhausted at night. I didn’t realize how important it…
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Disobedience and Temperaments
Joey & Carla Link July 23, 2025 How your child reacts to something you tell them to do depends on their temperament, as it drives how they think and feel. Each temperament responds in a different way, and when you know about the temperaments, you will have a head start in cutting your kids negative…
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Strengths and Weaknesses
Joey & Carla Link July 16, 2025 For each of your child’s strengths, there is an opposite weakness. Your strong-willed choleric child has the potential to make a great leader someday but at the same time can be bossy, demanding and has the need to control all situations he/she finds himself in. You have to…
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Working with Your Child’s “Bent”
Joey & Carla Link July 9, 2025 “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 Parents hang on to this verse from Proverbs, hoping and praying their kids will “not depart” from the spiritual, emotional, physical and social training they give…