In two days, on June 1st, the Life Hike will be happening again in Steinbach. The hike is simply a short, peaceful and positive march in support of life. One of the most critical issues currently facing Christian families is abortion. We need to talk … Read More
I Told Him the Truth: A pro-life conversation between a father and his son.
(Please note that this is a conversation between a father and his son. If the characters were female, I’m sure it would sound different. I just happen to have more experience with boys.) I ended my meeting with Jesus with a prolonged sigh. My journal … Read More
Your Kids Need Less Quality Time Than You Think
Parenting is an everyday race against time to accomplish a thousand tasks, while also carving out that precious quality time our kids so need and deserve. Parenting is a huge job. Not only are we raising humans but we also have to fit in time … Read More
Teaching Our Children To Pray
It’s interesting but it doesn’t seem to matter who you ask about prayer there is always a tone of guilt in the answer. “How are your devotions going?” “Good, but I only really did like 4 days last week. One day I did 45 minutes … Read More
Easter’s Over – Let the Adventure Begin
Show me a kid who doesn’t love an adventure. (If you can, I’ll show you a kid who has rotted his brains out with video games.) Easter, the most important holiday on the Christian calendar is over for another year. Now it’s time to help … Read More
Re-blog: If Christianity is True, Why Do So Many Kids Have Doubts Today?
I love Natasha Crain’s writing about apologetics for parents and kids! This is a GREAT blog post she wrote on February 28, 2019. I hope you find it helpful as well. If Christianity is True, Why Do So Many Kids Have Doubts Today? Christianity Today recently … Read More
Engaging Your Pre-Teen and Teenager Over Spring Break
(Re-posted from Spring Break 2018… because, let’s be honest, we could all use a refresher.) Spring Break is upon us! I would wager a guess that, for some parents, spring break elicits feelings from when you were young and anticipated a week of sleeping in, … Read More
What I Learned at Disney (this time round)
Well, we did it again. We took four of the kids to Disney World over Spring Break. Here is a rundown of my top ten lessons from this year’s road trip. 33 hours is still a LONG time. That’s how long it takes to drive … Read More
4 MORE Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’s Love for Jesus
Welcome back to our four-part series on growing your child’s love for Jesus. Here’s where you can find part one, two, and three. Today we’ll close with four MORE ways to cultivate in your kids a love for Jesus. Live the hardships of life with … Read More
Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’s Love for Jesus (Part 2)
As Christian parents, we want our kids to love Jesus just like we do.And there are very practical ways to grow that in our children. In this second part of our 4-part series, we’re looking at some very simple, down to earth ways we can … Read More
Practical Ways to Grow Your Child’s Love for Jesus [Part 1]
By Brad Klassen As a parent, if you are like me, you have a desire and a heart to see your children love Jesus and grow in Him. This could be based on many different things. Maybe for you it’s because of the life … Read More
Five Secrets Noah Knew About Raising Jesus-Loving Kids
By Brad Klassen I have a deep desire to see my children choose to live life God’s way. I have prayed for it often. The problem is, my children have me as their father. I get tired and don’t want to play. I have been … Read More
3 Tips To Reset Your Parenting
We’ve all felt it before. That gut-wrenching, soul-killing sick thought that our parenting has screwed up our kids. For some reason, there is less laughter, more stress and more bad behaviour. You’re tired, the kids are tired of YOU (they yell as they run to … Read More
A couple of great blogs from OTHER parenting sites!
Every so often, it’s good to let all the Renewed Family readers know about some other excellent parenting sites. Here are a couple of samples from two that I often look at. What Christian Parents Should Learn from the Normalize Atheism Movement by Natasha Crain from … Read More
Making friends in Middle School
I don’t care what anyone tells you being in middle school, those grades from 5-8 are hard. Probably one of the most difficult things about them is the way our friends change in those years. I remember being in grade 5 and crying to my [awesome] teacher, Mrs. … Read More
8 thoughts on transitioning to a new school
Depending on your child heading back to school might be exciting or terrifying. However, transitioning to a new school is always tricky. Here are 8 thoughts on making the transition a little bit smoother. ONE: Do a drive-by We are scared of the unknown, so make the … Read More