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Preparing Your Daughter for Healthy Relationships

If you’re a dad with a daughter, one of your primary tasks is to set the tone for her future relationships with men. Are you warm and nurturing? If so, she will eventually look for a husband with similar qualities. Do you communicate that she’s beautiful and feminine?She’ll be inclined to see herself in the way that you perceive her to be. If you convey strength by blending love and discipline, your daughter will be more comfortable with a give-and-take marriage characterized by mutual respect. But if you reject her, she is likely to spend her life trying to find a man who can meet the needs you never fulfilled in her heart.

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Dr. Dobson Minute

Challenging the Chief

Kids will often test the waters to see what they can get away with. Set boundaries early and enforce them for smoother sailing later.

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The Role of Fear in Parenting

Question: Dr. Dobson, what place should fear occupy in a child's attitude toward his mother or father?

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Dr. Dobson Minute

Firm Objectives in Parenting

Like runway lights in the dark, both love and respect are crucial guidelines for every parent to rely on.

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Dr. Dobson Minute

Investing Time in Your Kids: Quality vs. Quantity

What’s more important when it comes to spending time with your kids: Quality or quantity? Or both?

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What My Father Did Right: Reflections on a Life Well-Lived

Recently I came across this memoir written by my dad about his experiences of being a father. It brought back a flood of warm childhood memories for me of happy days shared together. During this celebration of Father’s Day, I thought you would enjoy reading his reflections.

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The Time Your Son Will Never Forget

Someone has said, “If you connect a boy to the right man, he seldom goes wrong.” I fully believe that to be true. The full force of my own father’s contribution hit me years ago when he lay in the hospital after a heart attack. As I stood by his bedside, I thought back to the happiest moments of my childhood.

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Audio Blog Series

Preparing Your Son for Courageous Living

Your son was created to lead with integrity, to love a wife sacrificially (if marriage is God’s plan for him), to labor with diligence, and to walk with the Lord humbly and faithfully. When you focus on preparing him for that calling, you’re not pushing him too hard. You’re training him for the life God designed for him.

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Broadcasts

How Parents Can Find Peace and Hope with Their Adult Children, Part 2

When an adult child pulls away or cuts off contact entirely, what should a parent do?

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4 More Principles for Raising Godly Sons

Our culture is at war with godly men. This makes the task of raising boys to be caring and respectful very difficult. Brenen and Morgan Beeler share four more tips on how parents can turn the tide on male-bashing and bring their sons up to fear God and love others.

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