How will your children respond when confronted by a moral dilemma? Prepare them before they are.

Does your child know how he or she would respond if faced with a moral dilemma? Thinking through difficult decisions now can help calibrate your child’s moral compass and provide guidance for real-life situations. Use these scenarios as a basis for engaging in conversation about making decisions between right and wrong. Read more

“Do you have any homework tonight?”

A simple question, yet it can spark what becomes a familiar argument throughout a child’s school years.

Haggling over homework is nothing new (most parents can remember protesting their own responsibilities on school nights), but homework battles in the 21st century are aggravated by a culture flooded with technical distractions.

According to research, 97 percent of youth play video games; nearly three quarters of them have a social media profile; 91 percent have a cell phone; and the typical teen sends an average of 10 text messages an hour. Is it any wonder parents will repeatedly hear their children complain that homework is boring and pointless? Even with the advent of computers in the classroom, formal education doesn’t even come close to holding a student’s attention like the competition. Fortunately, you don’t have to be as tech-savvy as your kids to keep them engaged in their schoolwork.

Even if the assignments are boring and pointless, you can use these opportunities to help your children develop the skills and attitudes they’ll need to be successful. You can get them thinking about the way they learn best, how they can motivate themselves and what it will take to succeed. You can teach them to be confident learners. Read more

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. And its presence is especially potent on social media. Click on the link to learn helpful tools to protect your children online.

Your teens needn’t chat with ChatGPT or Bard or any of the other ever-growing legion of chatbots. Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. And its presence is especially potent on social media.

Knowledge is power, said philosopher Francis Bacon. Power corrupts, said politician Lord Acton. And when AI knows so much about our teens—perhaps more than the living, loving people around them—that can be corruptive indeed. Read more

Meet your child where they are. If you are interested in relevant insights that grow with your child and have long-lasting influence, answers to the tough questions not covered by generic books and podcasts, and trusted parenting advice that’s both clinical and biblical to build your child’s faith, then the Focus on the Family's Age & Stage program could be a great tool for you. Read More

The world regularly teaches us ways to consume in our relationships rather than contributing to them. How, then, can we teach our kids to become contributors rather than consumers? What does real love mean? And what are ways that we can teach our children how to genuinely love others? Read More

In the journey of raising children, parents play a vital role in shaping their children’s mental health. A strong connection exists between parental influence and a child’s emotional well-being. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognizes that “… a child’s healthy development depends on their parents—and other caregivers who act in the role of parents—who serve as their first sources of support in becoming independent and leading healthy and successful lives.” A study from 2021 revealed that “poor mental health among parents or primary caregivers is associated with poor mental and physical health in children.” Read More

In this podcast, Dr. Skinner talks with Bill Klasnic, VP at Bark - a company focused on providing filtering for safety and content for phone and internet usage. The conversation focuses on internet safety issues, pornography usage, and ways that technology can help with these important roles in parenting, working with those struggling with inappropriate usage, and how parents and others can use a tool like Bark to help with accountability and safety. They talk about the Center's new partnership with Bark which makes it easy for everyone to get access to resources around this important issue and obtain filtering that is easy to use and maintains a high level of technology.

Listen to the podcast now and find out more at www.champion.org/bark.