Posts in Parenting
Reminder: Your Children Are A Gift!

Do your children know they are a gift from God? Sometimes as parents we struggle in those difficult moments when our children don't particularly feel like a gift. We say things we shouldn’t, and if we're not careful, little by little we make our children think they're a bother rather than a gift.

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Parenting, JoySeth Dahl
Declare: Today I Will Be A Good Influence On The People Around Me

I wanted to encourage you today with a declaration for your kids, “Today I will be a good influence on the people around me.” A declaration like this changes how our kids approach their friends. Instead of being on defense and focusing only on not letting bad influences in, they’re on offense, being a good influence to the people around them. A declaration like this is amazing for what it can do in our children’s lives.

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Parenting From Peace

As a parent, it seems so easy to worry about our kids. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we’re carrying anxiety in our parenting, and this can affect our whole family. I actually created an ebook, Worry-Free Parenting Hacks, to help parents live worry free and teach their children to do the same! I wanted to share an excerpt from this ebook because it seems so relevant for where we are right now.

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Parenting, Joy, ProductsSeth Dahl
Declaration Card Sets for the Whole Family

Why are declarations important? Declarations are a powerful form of prayer, so powerful in fact that God spoke declarations to create the entire universe. When we declare the truth of who God says we are, it not only helps line up our beliefs about our families with the Truth of God’s word, but it will also recreate our homes and relationships to look like God’s home and relationships.

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5 Effective and Loving Ways to Discipline: Managing our Energy as Parents

Most people live a good part of their lives by a schedule, but a lot of us tend to schedule things that drain the life out of us and not enough things that give us life. We get home at night and wonder why we're so drained, even if we are good at time management. It’s because there is an important second side to that coin - energy management. This is a key tool for us as parents…

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ParentingSeth Dahl
5 Effective and Loving Ways to Discipline Your Child Part 3: Do You Need to Be Held?

One day, I was walking through the living room while my daughter was in the no fun chair, and she had been there for quite some time. She was crying harder and was visibly very upset. As I passed her, this thought popped into my head, “Can you calm down on her own, or do you need to be held?” Sure enough, she told me that she did need to be held in order to calm down.

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ParentingSeth Dahl
5 Effective and Loving Ways to Discipline Your Child Part 2: The No Fun Chair

There are many verses in Proverbs about the rod of discipline. Proverbs 22:15 says, “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.” All throughout my childhood I heard this phrase, “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” What this meant was that if you didn’t spank your children, you would ruin them. Many people focused on the rod specifically, instead of discipline…

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5 Effective and Loving Ways to Discipline Your Child Part 1: Exchanging Time

My wife Lauren and I are passionate about the topic of loving discipline, and we believe it is empowering to both the parent and the child. Proverbs 6:24 says, “A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by disciplining them” (MSG). We do not believe that discipline has to be a disconnecting, frustrating, or shameful experience for you or your child, and we do not believe that is what God wants either…

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