Encouragement for Empty-Nesters
I have a word of encouragement prepared especially for those of you who are depressed today. It is a message written by a loving mother named Joan Mills, who must be a very special lady. She expressed
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Do You Enjoy Teasing Your Spouse?
One key to building trust is to take great care not to hurt or embarrass those we love. Some information is private and should remain so. For one partner to reveal family secrets indiscriminately or t
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Setting the Tone in the First 5 Minutes
Here's an idea relevant to relationships that I think makes a lot of sense. It's called "the first five minutes" and is based on a book that was published many years ago. Its thesis was that the first
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Adult Children Living At Home
Question: Dr. Dobson, we have a twenty-one-year-old who is still living at home. He does not want to come under our authority and he breaks all the rules we have set up as minimum standards of behavio
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Do You Accept Your Spouse As Is?
Question: What advice would you give to a woman whose husband just won't respond to her emotionally? That's my situation. Darrell is a good man, but he's not romantic, and he'd rather keep his thought
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Why Rules Alone Don’t Work
The culture is at war with parents for the hearts and minds of their children. I dont need to describe this battle because you see it, too. Parents in decades past would not have believed what was abo
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Don’t Overdo After-School Activities
Compulsive parenting can be equally hazardous to the object of all this attention: the child. Many parents today burn out their kids with too many scheduled activities. Like Martha (Luke 10:40), they allow busyness to distract their family from what is truly important.
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Protect Your Kids from Harmful Media
Are you aware that the average person between the ages of eight and eighteen spends approximately 44.5 hours each week engaging with some form of media? That's the equivalent of a full-time job and several hours of overtime! With consumption at this level, it's little wonder that media has become a type of "super-peer," influencing behaviors and shaping values.
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Understanding Your Child’s Behavior Before Disciplining
You have described the nature of willfully defiant behavior and how parents should handle it. But does all unpleasant behavior result from rebellion and disobedience?
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Trials Are Nothing New
If you have begun to slide into despair, it is extremely important to take a new look at Scripture and recognize that you are not unique in the trials you face. All of the biblical writers, including
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Dr. Del Tackett
