Tag: kids
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Positive Parenting, Part 2
Joey and Carla Link October 22, 2025 Last week we talked about being positive when you parent your children. Yelling, being harsh and angry or critical of them is being negative in your parenting and your children don’t need that. Being calm when you talk to your kids is one way you can be positive…
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Positive Parenting
Joey and Carla Link October 15, 2025 You ask one of your kids to do a chore he knows he is supposed to do. He ignores you. Forget trying to be polite. This time you tell him to do it in a firm voice. He tells you he will do it in an annoyed tone.…
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Right Away, All the Way, With a Happy Heart
Joey and Carla Link October 8, 2025 Young children need more than than teaching, which is giving them information, like why obeying those in authority is a wise thing to do even if they don’t want to, they need to be trained how to use that information too. When you are first teaching/training your kids about a…
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Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong
Joey and Carla Link October 1, 2025 No parent wants to believe they have a rebellious child. We may say our friends and neighbors have a rebellious child but rarely do we speak to parents who say “I have a rebellious child!” Actually, few people today use the word “rebellious”. It is more common to say…
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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.…
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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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Summertime
By Joey & Carla Link June 18, 2025 School’s out for the summer and you’re ready for some fun with your kids! Whether you’re staying home this summer or traveling we wanted to share some things we did with our kids while they were growing up to make our summer’s go smoother. We found that…
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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…