Living For Kids

Do bugs ruin your outdoor time before you can even sit down? If you’re tired of no-see-ums chasing you back inside, this Florida-friendly guide shows you how to create a beautiful, chemical-free garden that keeps biting bugs away. Get Rid of No-See-Ums Naturally is a beginner’s guide to growing your way to a bite-free backyard—using plants, simple design tips, and low-effort habits tailored to Florida’s climate. Inside, you’ll discover how to: • Grow 16 natural bug-repelling plants that thrive in heat and humidity • Design a garden that’s both beautiful and functional • ...

Imagine suddenly looking at behavior differently. When parents learn to replace rewards and punishment with problem solving, fairness, and logic, something amazing happens. Parenting gets easier and children become cooperative and respectful. In Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids: 8 Principles for Raising Kids You’ll Love to Live With (AdamsMedia, 2008), Bonnie Harris has distilled her groundbreaking work on understanding child behavior into eight key principles together with practical strategies parents can use to navigate through everyday challenges.

Audrey "Sunshine" Monke, mother of five and camp owner-director, shares nine powerful parenting techniques - inspired by the research-based practices of summer camp - to help kids thrive and families become closer. Research has proven that kids are happier and gain essential social and emotional skills at camp.

Feel like screens are taking over your child’s life? You're not alone — and you're not powerless. Raising Tech-Free Kids is a practical, compassionate, and timely guide for parents who want to break free from the grip of constant screen time and build a more connected, mindful, and balanced family life. In a world where digital distractions are everywhere, many parents feel overwhelmed, guilty, or unsure of how to set healthy boundaries. This book is here to help you reclaim your child’s attention, spark their creativity, and rediscover the power of presence — all without relying on...

Your kids are spreading their wings. Are you ready? In Fledge, counselor, educator, and mother Brenda L. Yoder helps Christian parents navigate the many transitions of the launching years. How do you parent tweens at home and young adults away from home at the same time? What's a good balance between boundaries and freedom? How can you pray for your fledgling youth? And what do you do with all that mom grief?

How do we keep our kids close while cultivating the confidence they’ll need to grow up? How do we navigate the inevitable dips, divides, and potholes? Where do we find the strength, self-awareness, and wisdom that amount to a path forward? Despite the parenting opportunities in the tween years, we often spend time focused on academics and the social concerns of elementary school then quickly pivot to worries about safety, drugs, sex and the rebellious behavioral issues of the teen years.

What does it take to be a great dad? The world is full of examples of men who weren’t there for their kids. But there are good and even great dads out there, who inspire their children and the men around them to reach for more. How do you become a dad like that - even if your own dad wasn’t such a good example? In The Dad Difference, Bryan Loritts explores the four gifts every kid needs from their dad: Relationship, integrity, teaching, and experiences. He walks you through what each of these mean and how to put them into practice.

Parenting is far from easy. From first steps to first dates, parenthood is filled with unique challenges. Yet there is no greater joy than nurturing one of God's most precious gifts. New York Times best-selling author David Jeremiah presents a heartwarming look at adventures in parenting. Drawing from his own rich journey through fatherhood, Pastor David Jeremiah shares wit and wisdom on raising children in an unpredictable world. Each insightful chapter features timeless truths from God's Word, offering encouragement for the road ahead.

Today's children and teens are growing up more anxious, depressed, and fearful than previous generations. But if we help this generation, often called "Gen Z", to discover true God-confidence, instead of chasing the illusive self-confidence, we can empower them to embrace their uniqueness and find their purpose, passion, and peace as they grow into humble, compassionate, and resilient young people. Cyndie Claypool de Neve, an associate marriage and family therapist, shares her personal journey from feeling anxious and suicidal to learning God-confidence.

In I Just Want You to Know, New York Times best-selling author Kate Gosselin continues her story of faith and family, picking up where her first book, Multiple Blessings, ended. Using excerpts and written prayers from her actual journal, Kate offers an intimate look at the heart of a mother during the three years her family transitioned from obscurity into television fame.

As gender identity, transgender experiences, and emerging gender identities continue to be normalized and celebrated, many parents are left struggling with what to think about these issues—let alone how to talk to their children about them. The leading Christian expert on LGBTQ+ concerns, Dr. Mark Yarhouse has spent years counseling and teaching on these issues. In this biblical, practical guide, he offers parents wisdom and answers to their biggest questions about gender, equipping you to critically engage gender theory from a Christian view.

Eating Healthy Cut Out These 49 Foods To Lose Weight Fast The list includes the usual suspects such as pies and doughnuts, but some foods red-flagged are less obvious, find out what they are A blacklist of foods heavy on calories but light on nutrition has been drawn up to help you lose weight without dieting. Cutting down or even better cutting these foods out of your diet altogether will definitely help you to lose weight without exercise. We take a look at the foods you should be cutting out of your diet or at least slowing down on and what to replace them with. Get It Now Tags: lose ...

Love-Powered Parenting is written out of a love for parenting and a deep desire to encourage parents. Yes, there are experiences in parenting that can cause deep hurt. Yes, there are realities in parenting that certainly will cause you to feel inept. Yet at the core of it all there is a deep gratefulness for the gift that God gives in the opportunity to love a child. This audiobook is a biblical guide to parenting. And by "biblical guide" we mean that it is intended to take you on a journey through what the truth of God's word has to say about parenting.

In the futuristic city of Greyville, where smog fills the air and nature seems to have disappeared, three friends—Maddie, Joey, and Charlie—set out to make a difference. After discovering a tiny plant growing through a crack in the concrete, they form the Green City Kids, a movement to bring back trees, flowers, and gardens to their gray, lifeless world. With determination and teamwork, they inspire their entire city to go green, proving that even the smallest actions can lead to big, beautiful changes. Green City Kids is a heartwarming story about hope, nature, and the power of community.

The author offers listeners the information, guidance, and concrete strategies they need to support the well-being and well-becoming of all kids. In Whole Child, Whole Life Learning, the author draws from personal experiences as a mother, educator, social worker, and field leader. In each chapter she braids these personal experiences with stories from the field and the translation of cross-disciplinary research.

It's not what you think that will impact your child; it's what you communicate. Charles Stanley focuses on the parental role as one of stewardship rather than ownership. As a parent, you have a stewardship entrusted to you, and are responsible to God for your actions toward your children. To keep your children on your team, you must assure them from the beginning that you are on theirs.

From infancy to empty-nesting, parenting is full of surprises and scares, hard decisions and unexpected blessings. Through it all, your children need your prayers. In 90 days of poignant prayers drawn from Scripture, James Banks guides you to speak God’s words of promise and comfort back to Him. As pastor, parent, and grandparent, James uses his deep knowledge of the Bible to address your child’s needs and challenges, covering everything from salvation and temptation to anxiety, growth, and contentment.

Raising kids today is more challenging than it has ever been. Technology, social media, and the ever-shifting standards of what is right and wrong can make parenting in modern-day culture difficult to navigate. If we want to win the battle as parents, we need to have the desire to truly parent well.

As kids grow up, they hear many conflicting messages about how they can define themselves. For example, they are told that they can define themselves by their achievements, popularity, sexuality, morality, or gender, or by how they feel. This warm, realistic, and sympathetic book, written by father of three and founder of Faith in Kids, Ed Drew, provides much needed biblical help for parents on this topic. It shows parents how to encourage their kids to find their identity in the fact that they are made and loved by Jesus, and it explores the implications and applications of this truth.

Unleash the Power of Imagination: Captivating Stories for Curious Kids!