Here’s an idea to help fathers have the hearts of their children
How’s the relationship between father and child? Here’s something you can do to be intentional to create safe hearts within your home.
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.
The Out of Control Lady at the Drive Thru Window
Here’s a story of a woman in drive thru who gets the unofficial Doozy Award. What would you have done in this situation? Ponder on and share with your kids.
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.
When My Son Respectfully Put Me in My Place
“If you don’t like children, why’d you have so many kids?” my college son asked me. Here’s the story and six principles about serving my family.
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…