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"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3

'Become Like Little Children'

  • by Lisa Damour
Being a preschool teacher is an opportunity to see the childlike nature God desires of us at work.

Treasure Digest: The Five Love Languages of Children

  • by Marilyn Braley
The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell M.D. (Northfield Publishing, 1997) is an outstanding resource for those of us blessed to be able to work with children in some capacity, such as United Youth Camp counselor, school teacher or having children or grandchildren of our own.

Truthful Tribal Storytelling

  • by Randy Stiver
"Writing, writing, writing, Daddy's sermon, sermon, sermon!" So proclaimed my two-year-old-daughter sitting in a laundry basket scribbling on a tablet.

Time for School Making Sure Your Child Gets off on the Right Foot

  • by Marti Springer
All parents worry about their children starting school, but Church members have the additional concerns about dealing with society’s holidays and getting off for God’s Holy Days. What can a parent do to insure their child’s success? Here are tips from a Church parent who is also a teacher.

Treasure Digest: The Blessing

  • by Marilyn Braley
The Blessing by Gary Smalley and John Trent (published by Thomas Nelson Inc. in 1985) explains the need that children of all ages have for the approval of their parents and how they can suffer by not receiving this.

Just For Youth... What's So Special About Families?

  • by David Treybig
Some suggest a family should be redefined as any group of people living together in the same household, irrespective of blood connection or sexual orientation. But is such definition warranted? Before we throw away our traditional view, maybe we should consider what we would lose in the process.

Illicit Sex: The Threat to Children

  • by Good News
The major consequences of sex before marriage include the problems of disease, premarital pregnancies, single mothers and fatherless children. Since 1960 in the United States, 'out of wedlock births have skyrocketed 511 percent, and the percentage of single-parent families has more than tripled' (Human Life Review, Spring-Summer 2000).

Divorce's Devastating Impact on Children

  • by Good News
Children of divorce often experience the same hardships suffered by children born out of wedlock. Because divorce typically slashes the mother's financial resources, "mothers and children in families that were not poor before separation suffered an average decline in income after divorce of 50 percent" (Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Divorce Culture, 1996, p. 93).

Do You Know Your Father?

  • by Doug Horchak
A physical father is a type of our spiritual Father. How can we come to understand our spiritual Father better?

The Growing Plague of Child Pornography

  • by Good News
Child pornography was pretty much eradicated in the 1980s," says Kevin Delli-Colli, head of the Cyber Smuggling Center. But, "with the advent of the Internet, it exploded.
Reading Together

Reading Together

  • by Don Hooser
When family members read aloud together, lots of good things happen including learning, laughter and love.

What Is Your Children's Future?

  • by Bill Bradford
Is the future of our children left to chance and circumstance? Their future is in your hands more than you think.