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Nurturing Your Child’s Personality

Is your child a rosebush?

A palm tree?

A pine?

How about a boxwood?

God wires our children with unique personality types. The nuances can be quite diverse, but they’re also finite to the point where a model of four personality types can explain them.

There’s power in personality. It’s a window into a child’s soul that parents can look through to see their hearts and to know how to lead them forward through life.

Hettie Britz is an author, a speaker, and one of the foremost voices in parenting advice from a biblical perspective in South Africa.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, kids, parenting December 10, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Exploring Your Love Style

Are you an avoider?

A pleaser?

How about a chaotic or a vacillator?

Those are four of the five the love styles you and your spouse likely see in your marriage. Their various combinations describe the core patterns driving a couple’s interactions and the problems they cause.

Avoiders and pleasers don’t experience much conflict, but for all the wrong reasons. Avoiders don’t like to have honest conversations because they get messy, and pleasers worry their spouse will get mad.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, marriage, relationships December 7, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Game Plan for Raising Well-Behaved Children

Dr. Kevin Leman humorously says of children, “We have seen the enemy, and they are small. They’re unionized. The ‘ankle-biter battalion’ is on the move, so you better have a game plan.”

I’m sure many parents would heartily agree with that assessment. To that end, Dr. Leman is with us on our program “Game Plan for Raising Well-Behaved Children” to share a wealth of practical tips that can bring order to the chaos in your home more quickly than you might think possible.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, kids, parenting December 6, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Expressing Pro-Life Views in a Winsome Way

I could have been aborted.

I was born in the ’60s prior to Roe v. Wade, but even then many people felt my mother would have been justified to abort me. She was the perfect candidate. She was 42 and in a high-risk pregnancy. My dad was an alcoholic, and I was the fifth child of a marriage that was already struggling to stay together. I was born into a household in turmoil.

I could have been aborted.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: abortion, broadcast, kids, pregnancy December 3, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Healing Our Hurting Marriage

Do you ever waste time with your spouse?

That may seem like an odd question. But your answer will get to the heart of what your relationship with your spouse is all about.

You see, some couples don’t do too well with “wasting” time with one another. Simply being together with no particular agenda and nothing to focus their attention on except their spouse is uncomfortable.

In other words, they have a hard time with intimacy.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, husband, marriage November 29, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Giving Your Teen Freedom to Become an Adult

When should parents say, “My child is old enough to be completely free as an adult”?

By the way, “Never!” is not a good answer.

It’s worth thinking through when your job is done as a parent. Your answers will guide you in how you approach raising your kids.

Children on their way to adulthood have always struggled against their parents. And parents have always wondered, “Have I done everything I could to prepare my child for adulthood?

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, kids, parenting November 26, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Relishing the Christmas Season

Alexandra Kuykendall knew she had to do Christmas differently.

Her job required a significant amount of her time, and her children and husband wanted a good chunk of the rest. Add to that visitors who were staying in her home and the usual accoutrements of Christmas – food, gifts, decorations, etc. – and she was overwhelmed.

After the holidays, even a non-committal, “Fine,” felt like a lie when friends and co-workers asked her, “How was your Christmas?”

She encountered something all of us go through at one time or another at Christmas.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, christmas, faith, holidays November 23, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Remembering the Pilgrims’ Journey

It’s easy to forget the origins of the holidays we celebrate. For a lot of people, Thanksgiving is about family, football, and pumpkin pie.

That’s all good stuff. But it’s also good to remind ourselves of the true origin of Thanksgiving and to remember how grateful we should be to live in a nation that has been immeasurably blessed by God.

While you’re fixing your Thanksgiving feast today, or heading over to Grandma’s in the car, tune into our Focus on the Family Broadcast “Remembering the Pilgrims’ Journey.”

Professor Jay Milbrandt, a professor at Bethel University in Minnesota, is with us to peel back the layers of history and get us back to what the first Thanksgiving was all about.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, family, holidays, thanksgiving November 22, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Reducing Drama in Your Relationships

The holiday season can be one of the most joyful times of the year. But it can also be one of the most stressful.

Spending time with family during Thanksgiving and Christmas sounds enjoyable in July and August. But once November and December arrive, you realize how much needs to get done, and you remember what’s it like to be in a house filled with people who have different interests, different traditions, even differing political and spiritual viewpoints.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, drama, family, holidays, relationships November 19, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura

Calming Your Fears

Remember Goliath? In 1 Samuel, he taunted the Israelites, saying, “Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us” (v.9).

Author Deborah Pegues encourages her readers to imagine their fear as a giant like Goliath. If you overcome it, if you conquer it, your fear will serve you.

Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, fear November 16, 2018 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura