Necessity may be the Mother of Invention, but frustration is a close second. Nothing frustrated me more than to be met at the most inopportune time with an empty roll of toilet paper!
It is easy to recognize when a child has had significant interaction with his parents. His eyes are bright and alive with the pleasure of everything happening around him.
When is a child too young to spank? The answer is obviously dependent on your definition of the word “spank.”
Cheerful training early on can save on later discipline
There are two aspects to child training. One is technique and the other is example.
One of the young mothers in the church tells how she trained her three-month-old daughter to cry and whine to be picked up and held.
I am often asked how to raise boys. It has been so long since my boys were 12 and 14 that I had forgotten much of what we did, but because we have the Russian boys back with us this summer, relating to them again has refreshed my...
The following letter expresses the heart of what this ministry tries to convey to our readers. This lady has truly discovered the JOY in “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth” (3 John 4).
Children are not all necessarily rebellious, loud, selfish, mean, aggressive, bossy, whiny, or moody. But all children have foolishness bound in their hearts, and they all need to be freed from the bondage that will drag them...
Recently I asked two old-timers (men who remember seeing the first airplane or automobile that came to town, and they go to sleep before they finish telling the story) ...