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Shout out today to great fathers!

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There are so many of you. You are great in such diverse ways. Some of you are no longer with us but your good fathering lives on in your children. Today, I celebrate dads and the positive impact you have on the young people you are parenting … along with the...

How Do We Parent in Ways We Weren’t Parented?

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Make lasting changes in behavior that last a lifetime and span multiple generations. In some ways, it’s easy to parent our children in ways we weren’t parented, right?  I was a latch-key kid with a working mom who was gone a lot. When it came time for me...

Jude Keeps the Church Offering

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Jude (6) confessed to keeping part of his offering out of the offering basket at church.  Dad was initially mad. But then he decided to make this a learning opportunity and help his son develop conscience rather than create a pattern where he simply feared...

Discipline that Makes Cents

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Tax Unwanted Behavior At a parent coaching session recently,  a single dad talked about a real world solution to his parenting dilemma. He charged a tax to his children when they displayed unwanted behavior and paid them a bonus when they displayed positive...