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“Stepping out” is not easy. Here are three crucial things to help you take your first step into something that seems impossible.

Jason Smith and his wife Paulina, in their Purposeful Parenting scheme, have designed various rites of passage for their teen children centering on fun, responsibility and service as they mature into adulthood. Read on to glean some ideas about how to shape your teen's destiny with such memorable moments.

Jason T. Smith and his wife Paulina have come up with a genius parenting plan that will give your children the best start in life, by celebrating the growth milestones in their life as a series of purposeful rites-of-passage ceremonies.

Joseph should get more than a nod at Christmas, because even for Jesus, fathers are not an accessory; they are a necessity.

"All Mothers Work" is a call to Australians — and Aussie political leaders especially — to truly value the unseen work of motherhood. Donate today to help empower Australian mothers raise their own children instead of being forced back to work before they're ready.

In her address to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in Sydney on October 22, 2024, Komisar discussed the negative mental-health outcomes of institutional childcare in the early years, specifically from zero to three years of age.

ARC is taking the best of Western history – the worth and dignity of each person, responsibility rather than victimhood, religious freedom rather than thought control, and promoting that story as the better one for our future.

Birth rates across the West are plummeting, and our economies will suffer untold carnage in the years ahead — all because we have failed to assign value to the unseen work, that most important job of child-rearing. Still, we have an opportunity to turn this mess around.

Turn the screens off and get outside with your kids! It could be as simple as kicking a ball in the backyard or a visit to your local park. Resist the temptation to make it elaborate or expensive – the simpler, the better!

Encouraging your kids about good behaviour is one of the most effective ways to train, or disciple, your children.

Kickstarted and facilitated by the non-profit The National Fatherhood Initiative, Strong Dads is one of six core pro-dad platforms raising men to be men across the United States.

In "Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up", Shrier examines the huge mental health crisis that our young people are experiencing. And much of the “therapy” that most children are receiving is simply making matters worse.

Trump recently told scientist-turned-podcaster Lex Fridman, “If you’re religious, you have, I think, a better feeling towards your own mortality... Without religion, there are no guardrails. I’d love to see us get back to religion, more religion in this country.”

George Barna, director of research at Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center, released new data earlier this month that “reveals the limitations of Christian evangelicalism in American society.”

Dads4Kids wants to make a big deal out of dads on Father’s Day this coming Sunday, 1st September 2024. Watch our brand-new latest Father’s Day Community Service TV ad below. It is essentially ordinary people from 18 to 78 years of age, talking about their Dads.

Robert believes that in an age of “accidental” or “experimental parenting”, fathers must be sharpened by other Christian fathers to combat what he calls a “generational dilution of truth”.

“Family is not an important thing; it is everything,” are the wise words of Michael J. Fox. You must put family first and be there for them. It will pay off in the end.

Amid what is a deeply controversial Olympic Games for Christians, the performance and witness of Christian athletes like silver medallist Elijah Winnington gives reason for hope.

The concept of atomic habits, popularised by James Clear, emphasises the power of making small, routine changes that compound over time. If you build good habits, good results will eventually follow.

One day I was in a shopping mall and happened to overhear this conversation from a table near me. There was a dad with his teenage son, about 13 years old...