Category: Blog
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Spring Time Is Bloom Time for Your 10-13 Year Olds Too!
Joey & Carla Link March 18, 2026 In Spring, we see plants and flowers popping up, making the land look fresh and bright with color. It’s also a time where our kids can start blooming in ways we may or may not be expecting or ready for. They can surprise you with a deeper understanding…
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Spring is Blooming and Your Kids are Too!
Joey & Carla Link March 11, 2026 During the Spring, we see plants and flowers popping up, making the land look fresh and bright with color. It’s also a time where our kids can start blooming in ways we may or may not be expecting or ready for. Springtime leads to new experiences for kids…
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Good Marriage Habits
Joey & Carla Link February 18, 2026 Joey and I have been married over 40 years. That is a long time and does indicate we are no longer young or middle-aged adults! In the last post, we talked about ways to destroy your marriage relationship. In this post we are going to talk about the…
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Is Your Spouse Your Best Friend?
Joey & Carla Link February 11, 2026 Why should your spouse be your best friend? God created the Garden of Eden to be a paradise. He put Adam there to care for the animals and to enjoy the plentiful food. But God saw that Adam was lonely. To fix it, He created a woman named Eve…
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Are Your Teens Ready to Date?
Joey & Carla Link February 4, 2026 With Valentine’s Day coming soon and spring-time around the corner, teenagers start looking at dating if they are not already involved in a relationship. It’s both a scary and exciting time for parents, as they remember their own dating experiences and know they need to let their older…
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Escaping Temptation
January 21, 2026 Joey and Carla Link Search Parenting Made Practical in your favorite podcast app or click here to listen! My kids knew it was their job to put their laundry away. I washed it, I folded it, put it in a basket and put each of my kid’s baskets in their room. From…
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Habitual Thankfulness
November 12, 2025 Joey and Carla Link Did you know there is a difference between being thankful and being grateful? They are often interchanged, but they mean two separate things. Gratitude is a deep, lasting attitude of appreciation, while thankfulness is an emotional response to a specific event or gift. While you are rarely thankful for hard things in life, you can have…
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What’s Obedience?
Joey and Carla Link September 24, 2025 “Children obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.” Colossians 3:20 Obedience, is doing what someone in authority over you tells you to do without arguing or complaining. Another way to think of obedience is “forced compliance”. Sounds harsh, doesn’t it? But God knew when He…
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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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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.…