Category Archives: Shaping Self-worth
Parenting: How To Bring Out The Worst In Your Kids
8 Dangerous Dispositions of Rookie Parents and Those Who Act Like It! Heed the warning: How you interact with your children —the tone of your parenting —full-on shapes their life —their...
Parenting: Keeping the Connection through the Teen Years
Keeping the Connection through the Teen Years You and your kid don’t have to grow apart during the teen years. It is true that there is a natural drive for independence...
Parenting: Are you the primary influence in your child’s life?
INDELIBLE IMPRINT—Getting Straight A’s on your Parenting Report Card and Becoming the Primary Influence in Your Child’s Life. Are you the primary influence in your children’s life? Indelible. Not as common...
Parenting: Helping Kids Handle Peer Pressure
A Candid Q & A with Dr. Dave & Donalyn Currie “My son is entering Junior High this fall. How can I prepare him to withstand the negative influences that often...
Parenting: 3 Things Parents Should Never Withhold from their Children
As I look back, I was at times a rather selfish and insecure parent. I was too often tempted, especially in the early years, to parent the children worrying about how...
Parenting: Responding to Your Child’s Porn Problem
Many parents believe that the character of their children will protect them from the dangers of the online world. Unfortunately the usual reality is that the online world bombards them and...
Parenting: My 6 Greatest Joys of Being a Parent
The truth is—my primary days of being “Dad” are over. Sure, I still hold the title and always will. But at best, I now only occupy a small place in my...
Parenting: BUBBLE WRAP CHILDREN: How Shielding Kids From Suffering Works Against Them
After speaking eight weeks this year to a Vancouver-based group of 150 parents in our iParent Series: Formatting the Next Generation, I received this amazing thank you gift pictured here. The...
Parenting: Developing A Family Mission Statement
Knowing Why You are Developing a Family Mission Statement Life is about choices. When you intentionally make the right decisions, so many things will go well in the life of your...
Parenting: The Impact of Family Traditions
Why does a college student say to a fellow passenger on a flight home for Christmas, “I can’t wait to get home. I miss my family”? Because family traditions, like a...
Parenting: Rethinking the Sex Talk
What Every Son Needs to Hear From His Dad An interview by Sam Black for Covenant Eyes Many dads feel awkward when talking to their sons about girls, feelings, sex, and…yikes,...
Parenting: Indecent Exposure—Winning the Sexual Battle for the Minds and Hearts of the Next Generation
Tears poured down her face as we embraced. My wife, Donalyn, whispered to me through her pain, “It is so wrong, and so easy. What if our grandbabies ever saw that?”...
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 5—The Top Ways to Protect Your Kids from Predators
Coach them early on what is good touch and bad touch. Discuss healthy personal, relational, emotional and sexual boundaries. While we want to encourage our children to be expressive and affectionate,...
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 3—Covering the Key Sexual Topics
Here are the Top 40 Topics to discuss with your child in your Pre-Teen Sex Talk. Recognize that though you may not cover all of these issues in one sitting, know...
Parenting: SEX TALK Part 2—Framing Your Discussion on Sexuality
Understanding the Coat Rack of Sexual Truth As a parent, you are seeking to build a “coat rack” of truth that will be the life framework for each of your children....