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Questions to Help You Determine Your Family’s Summer Goals

Do you want help setting summer goals that encompass the interests of each family member? Plans that include fun and productivity, adventure and relaxation, movie nights and home improvements projects? This guide will help you make a plan that the whole family will love. This list is intended to be used as a guide that triggers your own thinking. It’s…

Teaching Character in Your Home

Within your home, do you have selfishness? lying? stubbornness? deceit? anger? stealing? pride? jealously? bitterness? rebellion? You’re not alone! In this Cultivate video, Rhonda shares practical tips to help parents address character in the hearts of themselves and their children.

Preparing Your Kids for Air Travel

Have you ever traveled by plane, frustrated by someone’s loud children? Or perhaps you’ve been the parent stressed out with the rambunctious ones? Recently I took a trip across the USA to visit one of my adult children. From the back of the plane we all heard: Whining, demanding, fighting, name calling “Shhhhhh!” loudly, over the noise of…

Parenting to the Heart

For years, I’ve been opening my home once a month to teach women. Most often the topic is on some aspect of “parenting to the heart” of our children. “Parenting to the heart” means focusing on the heart not the outward appearance. Parenting to the heart involves dealing with the root of the sin in…

My Broken Hearted Child

(Shared with permission…to encourage parents to “Stop the World.”) My daughter was about twelve when it happened…again. One of her closest friends was moving away. I remember this day well. She and her sister and I were driving to a homeschool field trip, running a little late…being that I am the reigning U-Turn Champ, and all. (Does anyone else suffer…

Restoring Hearts

Are there things your kids wish you would do differently? Can they answer that question knowing their hearts are safe or do they expect you to be defensive? Here’s how to restore the hearts of our children and make changes within our own lives.

What does “Talking of God in Our Homes” Look Like?

This video contains some powerful truths that are life-changing. It’s about training our children… and talking of God in our homes so that the next generation knows God and the works He has done. What happened to the next generation – even after the previous one knew God and experienced His great works? Judges 2:10  “When all that…