by VP Admin | Feb 11, 2019 | Weekly Parenting Tip
There are so many distractions! We all say that our family—our kids and our marriages—are our highest priority, but so many other things—responsibilities, social engagements, church callings, entertainment, friends—all crowd into our lives and soak up our time and...
by VP Admin | Feb 4, 2019 | Weekly Parenting Tip
The best parents we know have what might be called “A positive, ‘can’t do’ attitude.” What we mean by that is that they acknowledge that they can’t do it by themselves, that they need help in raising their children. Sometimes the difference between successful and...
by VP Admin | Jan 28, 2019 | Weekly Parenting Tip
Synergicity is a hybrid word that we made up, combining “synergy” and “synchronicity,” to mean the acceptance of one’s interdependence with others and dependence on God. It suggests that when we work in tandem and in commitment with a...
by VP Admin | Jan 21, 2019 | Weekly Parenting Tip
If we think of our children as our possessions, we respect them too little! If our paradigm is “I made them so I own them and can try to make them into what I want them to be,” we will fail as parents and will feel a lot of frustration while we are failing. We don’t...
by VP Admin | Jan 14, 2019 | Weekly Parenting Tip
Controlling parents try to manage all of their children’s actions, thoughts, ambitions, and behavior, to make their decisions for them, and to turn them into their version of what they should be. They often lose their kids or force them to rebel. Serendipity parents...
