Flourishing Parenting Tips

Parenting is one of the most rewarding journeys, but let’s be honest—it can also test every limit of your patience, energy, and connection with your spouse. Between diapers, deadlines, school projects, and grocery lists, it's easy to go from soulmates to co-managers of a household.

What a time to raise children! Everywhere you turn, there’s a new challenge: emotional struggles, peer pressure, anxiety, confusion about identity, distractions from devices, and a culture that often pulls them away from faith instead of toward it. Sometimes, it feels like you’re fighting an uphill battle with one hand tied behind your back and a prayer whispered on your lips.

Are you tired? Not just “need-a-nap” tired, but bone-deep, “I can’t take this anymore” weary? Between drop-offs, pick-ups, homework, work deadlines, church meetings, bills, and trying to squeeze in some time for yourself (what’s that again?), you’re running on fumes. And in the midst of it all, there's this quiet whisper you keep ignoring—the invitation to rest.

Whether your relationship is the best it's ever been, hanging on by a thread or somewhere in between, the best thing you can do for it is to pray. If you want strong relationships that continue to flourish, then prayer cannot be your last resort. It must always be your first weapon in the arsenal against the attack of the enemy. Here are three prayers you can use today. 

Whether your relationship is the best it's ever been, hanging on by a thread or somewhere in between, the best thing you can do for it is to pray. If you want strong relationships that continue to flourish, then prayer cannot be your last resort. It must always be your first weapon in the arsenal against the attack of the enemy. Here are three prayers you can use today. 

One thing we’ve learned over these decades is that while the parenting trends may change, the foundations to raising healthy and well-adjust