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Back to School Checklist for Parents

With a new school year about to begin, you're likely busy filling out forms and shopping for everything on your child's school supply lists. Amidst all the necessary preparations, don't forget to ensure your child is safe from explicit...

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How to Interpret Emojis

Today’s children are growing up in a world that is more technologically connected than at any other time in history, and they are increasingly spending more time communicating through digital means.  Texting, instant messaging and emailing...

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The Virtue of Kindness

We all want our kids to be kind, but that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your child being unkind.  As a world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has led the character education movement in schools...

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The Truth About Living Together Before Marriage

Living together, or cohabitating, before marriage, used to be a rare living arrangement in our society with 0.1% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 0.2% of 25- to 34-year-olds living together before marriage in 1968. Today, living together before marriage is...

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Holy Week Family Activities

Holy Week is an opportunity for your family to pause and ponder, to carefully mark each day and not let the week fly by like every other. These are some of the darkest and brightest days in the history of the world, and they are rich with...

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Surgeon General & Teen Social Media Use

In a recent interview with CNN, the United States Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, was asked about teenagers on social media. He shocked hosts by saying that he believed that 13 was too young to be on social media. He said, “Based on the data...

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Sex Education in Your Community

Across the country, people are influencing and indoctrinating children. This is especially dangerous when it comes to how children are taught to view sexuality. The effects of radical sex education span far more than just the immediate implications...

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The Power of Parents

Since 2020, the power of parents has become increasingly evident in the public square, especially in regards to education policy. But parents have been instrumental in important changes in other areas of public policy too. From social media filters...

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True Girl Podcast

True Girl, formerly known as Secret Keeper Girl, is a program developed by Dannah Gresh for "tween" girls to encourage them to be young women of confidence and faith. True Girl works to equip moms in raising their daughters to withstand the...

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Parents & Screentime

The Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute recently released a study examining teenager's screentime. The study surveyed 1600 adolescents ages 11-18 in America. The findings were staggeringly high across the board, averaging a...

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