By Whitney Fleming Don’t Pick Your Battles With Your Teen, Pour Love Instead
Recently, I watched from the side as my husband nagged my daughter about putting on more cold-weather gear before soccer…
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Dear Daughter, I Was More Than a VSCO Girl Once Too
It seems like just yesterday when the alarm would go off at 6 a.m., I’d roll out of bed and…
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When It Comes To Raising Teens, It’s All Personal
Right before I was married, my mom told me that she read a letter I sent to my college-aged brother…
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By Bambi Loveday Our Teens Need Jesus and We Can Show Him to Them
Being a teenager is hard. I sat at the DMV with my daughter, waiting for her number to be called…
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By Rachel Gossen All of a Sudden I’m Mothering Men
I was up before the sun again. It is creeping up slower now, as the month is drawing to another…
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By Priscilla Baker Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now
This post originally appeared on the author's Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob…
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As a Mom of Teens, My Job is to Idle Nearby
I wash the dinner pots and pans quietly as I look over at my twin daughters who are high school…
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Parents Are Applauding a Colorado High School That Forfeited a Game After Students Were Caught Vaping
If you are the parent of a teenager, you have most likely heard about teens' rampant use of vaping. Kids…
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By Amy Blair Dear Son, What Did I Do to Deserve You?
I think it was about the age my son turned 10 there became new boundaries: too big for cuddles, tickling…
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Dear Daughter, Be the Girl Who Lives Out Love
Dear daughter, Be the girl who reaches behind and pulls the next person up to where you are at in…
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By HVFH Contributor Why I’m (Still) Not Buying My Tween a Smartphone
My grandma smoked her first cigarette when she was 11. Seriously. That sounds shocking to us now, of course. It…
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Our Kids Need Us to Stop Performance Based Parenting
Parents, can I ask a favor? Can we stop pushing the goalposts back for our kids? Can we stop changing…
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