Parenting Families – Strategies for the Blended Family Parenting within a blended family is especially difficult. How can you avoid letting the past fracture your future? At times it may even seem hopeless. But, take heart; it is possible to build a new family unit that stands strong against the assaults of the past. It […]
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Raising Your Children With Respect Booklet
Raising Your Children with Respect Raising a family is hard work, especially in today’s world. Many external forces reach into our homes and influence our families, but studies still show that children look to their parents for guidance in the major areas of their lives. In this booklet, parents will find helpful tips for building […]
Parenting With Purpose Booklet
Parenting with Purpose How do you parent with purpose? Order our booklet Parenting with Purpose for insight into managing the balance between life and loving and protecting your children the best way possible. Please enter your name and email address below to download the booklet. Name First Last Email(Required) CAPTCHA Δ If you would like […]
Nothing Normal: 12 Years of Foster Caring
Nothing Normal: 12 Years of Foster Caring Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a foster carer? ‘They say it takes a village to raise a child and it’s the same in foster care. Every child that’s come into our care, I know we’ve had a positive impact on, they’ve had good memories […]
Call Me Dad: Long Term Foster Parenting
Call Me Dad: Long Term Foster Parenting ‘It’s important that it’s not about you. You’re doing this for the sake of someone else.’ There are around 46,000 children currently in foster care around Australia. Ben and his wife Kelly became foster carers to Madi when she was seven years old. Listen as Ben shares the […]
Parenting – Finding The Fun
Parenting: Finding the Fun Please enter your name and email address below to download the booklet. Name First Last Email(Required) CAPTCHA Δ If you would like a printed version sent to you, click here to order the printed version with your name and postal address details.
Foster Parenting
With 40,000 children in desperate need of care around Australia, foster care organisations around the country seek to provide hope for young and vulnerable children. Listen to Ann, a foster parent, and Margaret, a foster care placement worker with Lutheran Care in South Australia, as they share the unique struggles and joys that come with foster parenting.
Bethany’s Story
How do you respond when doctors tell you your unborn child has complex heart issues? And when you discover your child will have ongoing special needs, what do you need to know about giving them the best chance at life? Listen as Jo and Luke share their story of caring for a child with a disability. Hear how they found hope when faced with challenges.
Single Parenting: A Journey of Resilience and Faith
‘I didn’t know anyone who had been in that same situation of being a single mum while pregnant.’ ‘I was still overjoyed to be expecting but then also very nervous, and then also devastated at the loss of my marriage.’ Raising kids is NOT an easy job, let alone raising a child as a single parent. But what about becoming a single parent before your child is even born? Click here to listen to listen as Steph shares her story of resilience and faith in the through the challenges of single parenting.
Fathers and Daughters
Parenting a teenager isn’t easy and we often get it wrong. Listen as we talk with Matthew about father daughter relationships, and how dads try to find the balance between wanting to protect their daughters and empowering them towards independence. What happens when we, inevitably, mess up?