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How to Parent Kids Who Feel Safe, Loved, and Ready for Life
As a parent, one of the greatest gifts you can give your child is a home where safe means home and home means safe. Emotional safety, above nearly every other factor, is key to raising children who live, love, and lead well. Parents have first access to the deepest...
Sneak Peek of Cohen Code
Cohen Code, the next novel in the action adventure, fast-paced Marc Wayne series is currently available for presale. As a bonus and thank you for preordering, readers can choose to get instant free download of the three previous novels in the series, The Patent,...
Embrace Healthy Friendships and Maintain a Distance from Toxic Ones
What do your friendships look like? Who are you choosing to be your friends? If your circle of friends consists solely of people who need to be rescued, and individuals who join you in poor-me pity parties, it’s time to expand your circle. Friendships are healthiest...
Do You Have A Living Trust?
A Living Trust is a legal tool to help you better manage your property, or make sure your family will be taken care of after you're gone. Essentially, a trust is a transfer of legal title from the owner (or the grantor or trustor) to an institution or person (a...
Back To School Is My Most Valuable Time To Shop
Back-to-school shopping is my favorite retail shopping season. Just look at all that yummy paper, bright ink pens, handy glue sticks, and notebooks in all sizes and shades. When I was a kid and finally old enough, my mom turned me loose to visit the aisles in the...
How Do Single Moms Choose Wisdom?
CHOOSING WISDOM: For Single Moms is a fresh 7-day devotional that helps single moms choose wisdom. When crisis crashes into your world, your nervous system springs to alert. Legal stress. Financial strain. Comforting children with questions and a broken heart. And it...
Boundaries for Peaceful Parenting
Peaceful parenting is the natural result of Bonding With Your Child Through Boundaries. Families thrive when children know what to do and parents have systems in place that relieve the need to nag. As parents, we can guide and nurture our children to become skilled in...
Have Fun To Be A Successful Single Mom
As a single mom, how often do you and your family have fun? “I’m taking your sister driving,” I announced to my family one evening. “To get her license she needs to learn to parallel park.” There was a chorus of “I’m coming too,” and six other children in addition to...
How To Make Father’s Day Less Awkward
Father’s Day can be awkward. Stats tell us that one in four homes is single-parent-led, and those are primarily single moms. That's a lot of women and kids with an empty place where a dad is designed to be. “Writing a book to benefit others seemed as if I was digging...
4 Proven Ways To Help Kids Feel Safe Through Divorce
By Tiffany Lindsey To help kids feel safe through divorce, parents must understand what the situation looks like from the child's view. Looking back 40 years to my parents’ divorce, there are things I would have wanted my parents to know. Divorce is traumatic and life...
Repentance: It’s Not What I Thought
What exactly is repentance? On a sunny morning, I played outdoors with my two-year-old grandson. In our Midwest neighborhood without fences, a sound caught his attention and the little boy toddled toward the busy residential street. “Come back here this instant,” I...
A Basket of May Day Grace
When I (PeggySue) was in grade school, our teacher explained that the first of May was May Day. Halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, the day was traditionally celebrated by giving baskets of sweets or flowers, often left anonymously on someone's...
Raise Confident Kids Who Live Adventurously
Solo parents can raise confident kids, introduce them to God, and live adventurously.
Does the Second Commandment Make You Feel Guilty?
Is there hope in the second commandment? “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them,...
Beginners guide to get healthy
Feel like a novice when it comes to how to get healthy? Then this beginner's guide is for you. Under crushing responsibility, it’s tempting for the single mom to put our health on hold. After all, we’re strong and have family to care for, career demands, household...
How To Celebrate Easter As A Family
This is the season when we celebrate Easter as a family and remember the greatest gift of all. Giggles quickly turned into belly laughs as I crawled on all fours, the preschooler perched on my back. Older siblings emptied the coat closet and spread their jackets on...