The Parenting Dare Blog

The Best Gift You Can Give Your Children

3/24/2022

If you think about it, we give our children many gifts. Yes, physical gifts, but more importantly, we teach them Bigger Truths and Ways to Navigate Life. What is the very best gift that you've given to your children?

Such a great question to ponder. While you are at it, think about how you were parented; what's the best gift that your parents gave to you?

Now, for those of you that don't me, I am an older mom. I have 8 kids and I certainly don't have all of the answers but I do love thinking about questions like those.

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Taking a Deeper Look at Our Parenting Methods

3/16/2022

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I’m very excited for this post today. Why? Well, I stumbled upon something that shifted something important with me. And I wanna share it with you.

Okay, in the last several posts, I have been talking about the concept of Parenting Below the Line, which means that we meet our children where they are at and we love them there. We guide them. We build into them. We create a family culture where our children don’t have to hide from us. And when they hide from us, we still meet them in their sin and muck and misery and we love them.

We give them the undeserved gift of grace.

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When Your Child is Stuck in Sin

3/10/2022

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Parenting is such a rollercoaster, isn’t it? There are highs and lows and everything in between. When I was a young mom, I thought it would ONLY be about teaching my children how to be polite, responsible and respectful. I didn’t understand that part of my parental duties were to teach and equip them how to handle the “underworld” of our life.

Today I’m going to tackle this topic: what to do when your child gets sucked into that underworld.

(Our podcast player looks a little different this week...they changed some things.)

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