Category: Blog
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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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The Habit of First-Time Obedience
Isabella Ruffo June 11, 2025 My parents used the parenting principles they learned in the Growing Kids God’s Way parenting class to raise my brothers and I when we were growing up. One of the principles my parents were excited about but I wasn’t the biggest fan of was learning to obey immediately, completely, and without arguing…
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What Do I Need to Do to Get My Toddler to Obey?
Andrea Stokes July 10, 2024 When we had our daughter, my husband and I knew we wanted to raise her to be an obedient, well-behaved child. But as she grew, and two little brothers were added to the family, we realized how ill-equipped we were and how daunting this goal seemed. Thankfully, a friend had…
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3 Reasons Why
Laura Holmes July 3, 2024 Parenting can be described as a long string of many, many decisions made minute after minute, day after day. What words to say, how to say them, what consequences to give, what skills or virtues to prioritize, whether something is age-appropriate, whether you just turn a blind eye and hope…
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Self-Control – A Necessary Skill
Renee Plumberg June 26, 2024 It’s 6:00 at my home. I am trying to make dinner while my seven-year-old is supposed to put away the clean dishes. My three and four-year-olds are playing with their cars on the dining room floor where I can see them, and my toddler is reading a book beside me.…
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The 1-1-1-1 Marriage Plan, Pt. 2
Beth Blunk June 19, 2024 This is part 2 of Beth’s blog on Marriage. Click here to read part 1. Over time our marriages can show cracks in the foundation due to stress and neglect. Whether you are married 2 years or 40 years, it is important for the health and the strength of your family to…
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The 1-1-1-1 Marriage Plan
Beth Blunk June 12, 2024 Last fall, my husband Ed and I replaced our garage floor, prompted by some bigger concerns that the garage foundation wall had moved. What we found was when the house was originally built, that part of the foundation had apparently not been constructed by today’s standards. No wonder it was cracking,…
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A Lesson I Learned at the Water Park
Barbara Cheney June 5, 2024 Joey and Carla Link were in Tennessee to present a parenting seminar. As GFI Leaders, we welcomed them to stay in our home for the weekend. I remember Carla sitting with me at my kitchen table and asking me what issues I’d like help with. As I gave her a…
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Creating Family Identity
Darren & Caroline Pearce May 29, 2024 Creating and nurturing a strong Family Identity is incredibly important given all the external influences present in the world today. Growing Kids God’s Way describes how “peer pressure is only as strong as family identity is weak”. What a powerful reminder for anyone trying to raise children – especially teenagers! Joey and…