Parenting

On this Focus on the Family broadcast, authors Cynthia Tobias and Sue Acuna explain how parents can effectively adapt to various challenges they and their children will face during the middle school years. For more from Cynthia and Sue, check out their...

Our guests offer parents practical advice on teaching children responsibility by giving them age-appropriate chores.

Author Susie Larson shares practical ways for parents to teach their children gratitude, especially during tough times.

Psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman shares valuable parenting lessons with personal stories and humor as he discusses the indelible imprint a father has on his daughter's life.

Author and speaker Kathi Lipp offers encouragement to moms as she describes how they can work through struggles with guilt, shame and the illusion of perfection and being in control.

Relationship counselors Bill Farrel and his wife, Pam, explain how parents can become more intentional in raising their kids by formulating a plan to help them succeed in life.

Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane explain the dangers of overusing digital gadgets and media, and offer parents practical advice on establishing healthy boundaries and teaching their kids the importance of face-to-face relational skills.

Author Lysa TerKeurst offers advice to moms who struggle with a sense of failure, encouraging them to relax, relinquish their guilt and rely on God for guidance.

Pastor Michael Youssef offers insights on how parents can pass godly values on to their children by keeping God at the center of the home.

His humor kept the Promise Keepers audience in stitches. Then Phil Callaway delivered the one-two punch about fatherhood. He stresses the need for grace, understanding, a yielded attitude and a walk with Jesus.

Author Jeannie Cunnion and Jean Daly encourage moms and dads to teach their children about God's love by focusing on a grace-based rather than a rules-based approach to parenting.

Our guests take a compassionate and knowledgeable approach to the topic of mental illness, discussing its medical, psychological and spiritual aspects as well as the challenges it poses for families.

Author Erin Davis encourages women to embrace their identity in God's high calling to motherhood, rather than become distracted by the difficulties that accompany it.