Tag: parenting
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Changing Traditions
December 10, 2025 Becki Smith As our children have grown older, I’ve started to wonder if I will lose some of my treasured traditions. But I’ve come to realize that our traditions can take a different shape as our season of life changes. One of our favorite family traditions during the Christmas season has been…
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The Tradition of Sharing
Grace Morris December 3, 2025 Every year since my husband and I got married, 11 years ago now, we have made an assortment of Christmas cookies and put them in baggies and passed them out to all of our neighbors. We first lived in an apartment for 2 years and this was a great way…
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Holidays and Your College-Age Kids
November 19, 2025 Joey and Carla Link One of our daughters went to college 4 hrs. away and we weren’t able to see her much her first semester there. When she came home for Thanksgiving, we couldn’t wait to see her. She spent much of that short time home sleeping or sending messages to her…
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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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REMINDERS
November 5, 2025 Joey and Carla Link I remember a time when I reminded one of my girls once again to get her chores done and her response was, “I know, I know.” I thought if she already knew, why wasn’t it done? In the last 24 hours how many times have you heard your…
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The Parenting Notebook
Kim O’Brien October 29, 2025 Have you heard the phrase, “Train your kids in times of non-conflict?” First, you should think about what training entails. As Joey & Carla have so often said, it has 3 parts: 1. Give them information 2. Show them how you expect them to use that information 3. Correct them when they don’t and praise…
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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…