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Giving Time To Your Children
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by Jean Fleming
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I CRINGE WHEN I hear, "It isn't how much time you spend with your children that matters, but whether the time you do spend is of high quality." High quality for whom? If we define quality time as that which meets a need, we must ask, "Meets a need for whom?"Quality time for a four-year-old may be having Mommie there to kiss a scrape and apply a bandage.
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—Issue #10
July/August 1982
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How Can We Teach Our Children Compassion for Others?
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by Rita Trickel
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A. This is a common concern for Christian parents. Perhaps a son relates with amusement a story about someone ridiculed at school. Or maybe your daughter seems more concerned with maneuvering ahead of her group's power players than with the needs of others. Take heart. At least one well-known Christian leader also lacked compassion early in life.Consider
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—Issue #101
September/October 1997
Department: On the Home Front
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"How Can I Help My Child Deal With A School Bully?"
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by Faith Tibbetts McDonald
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Lately school has been distressing for our nine-year-old son, Matt. He's endured frequent unpleasant encounters with a big, mean classmate we'll call Neil. Our intervention initially was tentative, because my husband and I just weren't sure how to respond. When the situation didn't resolve itself, I began to release my negative emotions in prayer.
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—Issue #106
July/August 1998
Department: On the Home Front
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"How Can I Teach My Children about Hard Passages from the Bible?"
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by Tina Reiman
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The innocent eyes of my six- and eight-year-old children grew wide as I read about Jezebel's death. "So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot" (2 K. 9:33). They looked at each other, and a shudder passed between them. "But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except
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—Issue #107
September/October 1998
Department: On the Home Front
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"How Can We Help Our Children Develop Healthy Relationships with Their Unbelieving Peers?"
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by Peter & Carol Mayberry
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When it comes to our kids' unbelieving friends, we can be tempted to give them a checklist that asks, "Does this person meet a certain set of criteria?" But this approach doesn't necessarily teach them to think critically or internalize godly values. Instead, we must help them establish a walk with God that will equip them to make wise decisions.Getting
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—Issue #109
January/February 1999
Department: On the Home Front
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"How Can I Cope With My Child's ADD?"
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by Jennifer Maze Brown
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Millions of us feel overwhelmed as we love, struggle with, and try to guide children with Attention Deficit or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD). Take heart: God's Word offers us insight and hope.Seek a new perspective.Many understand ADD/ADHD in terms such as deficit, disease, and disorder. But does that line up with Scripture? Psalm
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—Issue #110
March/April 1999
Department: On the Home Front
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How Can I Teach My Child to Think Wisely about Advertising?
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by Faith Tibbetts McDonald
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Sometimes I hear, "Mom, don't buy those batteries! They're not as good as Energizers!" Or, "Mom, I really like that commercial where the frogs sit on the lily pads and croak, ‘Bud.' It's so funny." From batteries to beer, no one can deny that advertising impacts our children's thinking.Teach kids to think critically.Because watching TV is
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—Issue #111
May/June 1999
Department: On the Home Front
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Married To An Unbeliever?
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by Beverly Bush Smith and Patricia DeVorss
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When Carol told her husband she had become a Christian, he exploded. "There is no way I will live with someone who's holier than thou!" Helen greeted her husband's announcement of "accepting Jesus" with a blank stare and a shrug. "So you do your thing, and I'll do mine." When Janice and Ted were dating, he went to church with her. Sure that he'd
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—Issue #117
May/June 2000
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"How Can I Help My Children Develop A Heart For Missions?"
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by Sarah Robertson
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When I was a missionary working at a Christian orphanage in Romania, I received a special package from an 11-year-old girl named Rebekah. In the package I found a crib quilt, a picture, and a letter. Her letter explained how she had made the quilt for the new baby at the orphanage. She had drawn a picture showing America and Romania connected by a large
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—Issue #117
May/June 2000
Department: On the Home Front
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