Author: Laurie Gauger-Hested
No matter what age your children are, your role as a parent has changed over time. The first time we leave them with someone else as newborns can feel monumenta...
My kids are 15, 10, and 7, so I haven’t quite gotten to this stage of parenting yet . . . but I can feel it coming. The important moments are stacking up. Tim...
For better or worse, Christmas is filled with traditions. Some of these traditions help celebrate Jesus’ birth—the Christmas Eve candlelight service or the ...
This month’s column might not be what you are expecting. It doesn’t include endorsements for the latest security apps to keep your child safe online or to m...
What’s the best parenting advice you’ve received or given? Years before I became a mother, I wrote a news article for Forward in Christ in which I interv...
How should we handle it when people undermine our parenting decisions? I think that parenting is often like an ice cream sundae bar. No two people make exactly ...
Parenting is a balancing act in so many ways. For example, each day I try to help my kids balance their sleep. If they go to bed too early, they’ll wake up t...
What should we do when our children grow silent? There are days when we all would long for some silence as parents—during those long colicky twilight hours; t...