Tag: teens
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It’s Vacation Time!
Joey & Carla Link June 24, 2026 Traveling and vacationing with your kids can be a fun time but also can feel exhausting to the point you almost wish you had stayed at home. We have written blogs about this recently, but with vacations coming we wanted to review it one more time. The fun…
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Be an Encourager
Joey & Carla Link June 17, 2026 Summer is upon us and kids often spend their days fighting with each other. That is what kids tend to do when they have too much unstructured time together. You have gotten to be an expert on telling them to settle down and keep their hands to themselves.…
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Kids, Money & Responsibility
Joey & Carla Link June 10, 2026 Summer time is a great time to teach kids responsibility with money. They typically are asking for more of it so they can have fun while out of school. Some kids start thinking of how they can earn money and might even ask you if there are some…
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Where Did the Time Go?
Joey & Carla Link June 3, 2026 Our oldest grandson recently turned 15! Where did the time go?! Now Summer is here and you think you have time to kick back and relax, and you do, if you make time for it. You also have to make time for sport’s practices for the teams your…
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Pointing Your Kids to the Good
Joey & Carla Link May 27, 2026 “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23 Suppose you go to a parenting conference and hear it said that you need to go beyond dealing with your kids’ misbehaviors and get to their hearts instead. How do we get to…
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Encourage the Good Things
Joey & Carla Link May 20, 2026 School is getting out soon and for most of you, your kids will be home for the summer. Bickering, arguing, whining, complaining and so forth tend to be a part of every kid’s day, especially when they are with other kids, and even more so when these other…
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Kids’ Behavior in Public
Joey & Carla Link May 13, 2026 A family is at a theme park with lots of roller coasters and rides. The kids are so excited, as soon as they get through the front gate, they run off to their favorite ride or the first one they see. They might have talked about where they…
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What Makes Your Family Strong
Joey & Carla Link May 6, 2026 When Carla and I are teaching at parenting conferences, there are times we talk about interdependent and dependent families, something we first learned in the Growing Kids God’s Way parenting class. Visualize the members of your family standing in a circle, holding hands with their backs to the inside of…
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When Loving Others is Hard
Joey & Carla Link April 29, 2026 When our girls were in their teen years, they had to come up with a schedule for morning bathroom time. The problem was our oldest daughter had a bad habit of oversleeping and not getting into the bathroom on time, but she stayed in for the amount of…
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Good, Better, Best
Joey & Carla Link April 22, 2026 One of our daughters was not doing her chores so they were completely done. Minimum effort would best describe her work. When checking them one time to see how well they were done, I (Carla) asked her, “Good, better, best, which one would you say described your work on your chores today?”…