R.I.N.G.

Are you contemplating marriage? Consider! Often quoted, “statistics show that ‘Christians’ or non-Christians alike almost have the same tally for marriage breakups.”  If you are like me, my logical mind…

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Deploy

The time to deploy is when your child reaches maturity as a young adult. This is a difficult stage not so for the child but more so for the parent.…

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Love

The pre-teens to the teenage years are the most volatile stage for a child. This stage is termed the “tween” years (ages 9-12) and the adolescence (ages 13-19), respectively. The…

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Instruct

Instruct. This is the age of reason. The season when children start to verbalize their thoughts, to read, to write, and be physically coordinated. This is the moment that we…

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Hone

The toddler years. What do I mean by hone? To hone the character. At the earliest stage, caring for your baby would have created an imprint of you as parent.…

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Care

For the sake of emphasis, I categorized CARE as the initial stages of parenting—from pre-natal to baby stage. Being a parent is paradoxical. We all start from scratch. Clueless. Yet,…

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C.H.I.L.D.

Helpful Parenting Principles Clueless. There are many jobs that can be delegated, if not relegated. But there are two which is an exclusive domain—Husband and Father. As a husband I…

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