Category Archives for "Motherhood"

Busy Mom Tips: 9 Ways to Be More Engaged With Your Kids

As a busy mom, I feel immense pressure to “love my children” by ensuring that their lives are full of carefully planned activities and studies. While I believe this is an important part of being a parent, it’s not the most important aspect in raising a child. My kids feel the most loved when we are simply […]

30 Days of Kindness Week 5 of 5: Kindness Appreciated

Welcome to Week 5 of the Your Vibrant Family 30 Day Random Acts of Kindness Challenge! It’s our final week! This week’s challenge is about secret agent kindness. We’ll explore some simple ways we can show kindness to each other in fun, stealthy ways (with kindness activities, family discussion questions, Bible verses, and more). Join us and […]

30 Days of Kindness (Week 4 of 5): Secret Agent Kindness

Welcome to Week 4 of the Your Vibrant Family 30 Day Random Acts of Kindness Challenge! This week’s challenge is about secret agent kindness. We’ll explore some simple ways we can show kindness to each other in fun, stealthy ways (with kindness activities, family discussion questions, Bible verses, and more). Join us and let’s spread kindness! Remember–every […]

Mommy Guilt: Conviction or Condemnation? 6 Steps to Freedom

Mommy guilt: Here’s how to tell the difference between a healthy conviction that we need to re-focus our efforts on our kids; and a negative, destructive thought pattern that seeks to destroy and undermine our self-confidence.   As my morning begins, my four kids surround me with their requests. “Mom! Look at my cartwheel! Watch me! Watch me!” […]

30 Days of Kindness (Week 3 of 5): Kindness to Our World

Welcome to Week 3 of the Your Vibrant Family 30 Day Random Acts of Kindness Challenge! This week’s challenge is about showing kindness to our world. We’ll explore some simple ways we can show our world kindness (with kindness activities, family discussion questions, Bible verses, and more). Join us and let’s spread kindness! Remember–every act of kindness counts! Just […]

30 Days of Kindness Challenge (Week 2 of 5): Kindness to Our Community

Welcome to Week 2 of the Your Vibrant Family 30 Day Random Acts of Kindness Challenge! This week’s challenge is about showing kindness to our community. We’ll explore some simple ways we can show our community kindness (with kindness activities, family discussion questions, Bible verses, and more). Join us and let’s spread kindness to those in our community! […]

30 Day Random Acts of Kindness Challenge (Week 1): Kindness to Family

Hooray! Today is the first post in our 30 day acts of kindness challenge! Who’s excited and ready to do some good deeds with their family? Below is the Week 1 challenge! Remember, adjust the activities and discussion ideas to what works for your family. Do some of it, or all of it!     Just […]

3 Practical Ways to Pray for the Persecuted and the Lost

This guest post is written by Bonnie Rose of WriteBonnieRose.com. “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us […]

5 Powerful Strategies for Parenting Teens

Parenting children through the teen years is incredibly tricky. No matter how you slice it. Helping teens transition to becoming well-adjusted adults is a complex and unique process for each parent and child. While there are no perfect formulas for parenting teens to adulthood, I want to share 5 key mindsets I’ve learned that help parents transition […]

9 Tips For Raising Kids Who Change the World

We have a phrase floating around our house that we ask our kids: “What are you going to do to change the world?” And we mean it. We want our kids to dream big dreams with us. We want our home to be a place of imagining, creating and exploring. If dreams are where all […]