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Simply reading and understanding God’s will for us isn’t enough. We must also choose in obedience to follow it—and that’s the difficult part. So often, we are too headstrong to submit.
The culture is waging an all-out war for the hearts and minds of your children.
Raising children today feels harder than it did even a few years ago, doesn’t it? You’re not only protecting your son or daughter from what is happening at school or in the neighborhood. Now you’re navigating smartphones, social media, gaming platforms, and a culture that moves at digital speed and is determined to pull your kids into a corrupt secular worldview. Many Christian parents feel fatigued. The rules keep changing. The platforms continue to multiply. And just when you think you understand the landscape, artificial intelligence appears and brings a whole new level of complexity to parenting.
Teenagers crave freedom but secretly, three out of four kids want a “take-charge parent.”
Why can't parents get children to obey just by explaining what they want them to do? Why is it so often necessary to punish or raise our voices to get them to cooperate? Why can't they just accept a f
Parenting teens can feel like navigating a minefield of emotions and boundaries.
Children cannot raise themselves properly. This fact was illustrated again in a recent conversation with a research psychologist who visited my office. He had been studying the early childhoods of inm
There are several major social problems that account for much of the trouble facing boys and their parents today. One of which is called postmodernism, which helps explain further how families, and especially how boys, came to be in such a mess.
Question: Dr. Dobson, why are kids so vulnerable? How do you explain this paralyzing social fear at an age when they are notoriously gutsy? There is very little else that scares them. Teenagers drive
It’s important to understand how kids think. Their conflict often becomes a way of manipulating parents. Quarreling and fighting provide an opportunity for both children to capture adult attention. It has been written, “Some children had rather be wanted for murder than not wanted at all.” Toward this end, a pair of obnoxious kids can tacitly agree to bug their parents until they get a response—even if it is an angry reaction.
