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Do your Kids Understand What Memorial Day Is?

Joey and Carla Link May 24, 2023 The first part of this blog is written by Pastor Mike Glenn of Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, TN. It was a great introduction to give parents practical application to teach your kids about Memorial Day. When soldiers were preparing to land on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, their […]

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Building Trusting Relationships with Your Kids

Joey and Carla Link May 17, 2023 In a recent Parenting Made Practical podcast titled “Help Your Kids Become Confident” (#61), we talked about building blocks you put in their hearts on the platforms of unconditional love and trust. In it we defined “trust” as the “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.  You are putting into […]

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Thoughts from a Grandma

Joey and Carla Link May 10, 2023 Do you ever watch your kids yell at each other, refusing to share and provoking their siblings to anger, while you and your hubby are trying to sit down and relax at the end of a long day? Do you groan in defeat thinking you have failed at […]

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It’s Not Fair!!

Joey and Carla Link May 3, 2023 “It’s not fair!!” You have most likely heard these words come out of your child’s mouth at one time or another. I (Carla) have a sister with blonde hair and one is a brunette. Me? I have red hair. I have 21 cousins on my dad’s side of the […]

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What is Unique About Your Family?

By Joey and Carla LinkAugust 3, 2022 We would tell our kids when they weren’t getting along that your family are the only people that will be with you from the beginning to the end of your life. Carla and I are feeling that. We are of the age where the generation above us – […]

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