One of the greatest parenting joys is when your child lets you into their private world. What is the private world? Generally speaking, it is a special place where we all hold deeper thoughts, treasured memories, and feel the most vulnerable. It is the essence of who we are. The private world is what we share with our spouse and only our most trusted and closest friends. As our children grow and develop their sense [...]
As we begin each new year, we are excited to share our top ten parenting tips. This list highlights the best practices and addresses some trends we have observed over the past year. Some of these tips may be familiar to you, while others might be new. Regardless, we hope this list serves as thoughtful encouragement to you as you kick off 2025! 10) Have fun and enjoy your kids – It's easy to get wrapped [...]
This past spring, OneFamily hosted an international parenting conference that reached nearly 300 parents from around the world. This is another example of the many resources – online classes, seminars, daily encouraging quotes, Tuesday Letters of advice, and more - OneFamily offers families as they seek to improve their marriages and parenting strategies. Claire and Hunter are a wonderful example of parents who take advantage of everything OneFamily has to offer: We are so thankful [...]
A successful parenting journey requires consistency, patience, and resolve. Yet the journey is often filled with frustration, anxiety, and, at times, hopelessness even when we are trying to do our best. Thankfully, there are those moments that can unexpectedly encourage and sustain us in the process! Recently, we were reminded of a heartwarming story shared by friends and OneFamily parents. This story beautifully illustrates one of those unexpected moments when parents receive affirmation that their [...]
The mission of OneFamily is to equip, encourage and sustain you throughout your marriage and parenting journey. For nearly 10 years, we have committed ourselves to serving families, one family at a time, with classes, seminars, events, one-on-one coaching/mentoring, and online with our daily quotes and Tuesday Letters of encouragement. This means you have ongoing access to OneFamily long after you’ve first participated in one of our programs. This year, we worked directly with 2,400 [...]
Does your family embody an attitude of gratitude? When shaping your family identity, do you actively cultivate and teach the importance of gratitude? One of the many reasons we cherish the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, is that it offers a fantastic opportunity to strengthen our family identity through traditions that encourage our family to internalize the virtue of gratitude. Family Identity with Family Traditions Family identity is an anchor for you and your [...]
Each November, as Americans, we have the unique privilege to exercise our American Liberty by “V”oting and honoring our “V”eterans. Today is Election Day and next Monday is Veteran’s Day. How often do we take both for granted, let alone explain the importance to our children? Yet both are fundamental to the founding and longevity of our republic. Without either “V” our country would not exist. Learn, Instruct and Vote Voting is at the heart of [...]
¿Les das a tus hijos la libertad de fracasar o cometer errores? O más apropiadamente, ¿les permites la libertad de crecer con responsabilidad personal y propiedad? Ya seas un niño o un adulto, el fracaso no es fracaso si aprendes y creces de él. Para los padres, es especialmente difícil ver a nuestros hijos sufrir frustración, experimentar dolor emocional o la incomodidad que conlleva fallar o cometer errores. Como resultado, podemos convertirnos fácilmente en "Padres [...]
Do you give your children the freedom to fail or make mistakes? Or more appropriately, do you allow them freedom to grow with personal responsibility and ownership? Whether you are a child or an adult, failure is not failure if you learn and grow from it. For parents, it’s especially difficult for us to see our children suffer frustration, experience emotional pain or the discomfort that comes with failing or making mistakes. As a result, [...]
Por mucho que disfrutemos de Halloween, siempre nos alegramos cuando quedó atrás. Claro, disfrutamos de muchos aspectos del truco o trato, como la vez que un imitador de Elvis de 4 años llamó a la puerta y dijo: "Gracias. Muchas gracias" con su vocecita más profunda. Pero, con toda la diversión y la emoción, también hay un cierto tipo de locura impulsada por el narcótico de la infancia: Candy. ¡Es como si TODO se fuera [...]