Daylight Calendar Teaches Kids the Importance of Honesty, Love and Forgiveness
As a family, use this month’s Daylight Calendar to study the book of Philemon and to discuss the true meaning of forgiveness. Talk about the ultimate gift of forgiveness that God offers to us through Christ.
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10 Ways to Help Your Child Make Friends at Church
The lady wistfully looked at the group of kids standing in the church yard. After the service, they had gathered to share the latest news, laugh together and just do some good-natured pushing and poking. "I wish our kids had good friends at church," the lady lamented to her husband.
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Larry Fowler Discusses Raising Modern-Day Josephs on National FamilyLife Radio
What are you doing to grow spiritually strong youth? That was the topic of the FamilyLife Today radio program on October 16. Larry Fowler spent the 30-minute show talking with hosts Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine about instilling your children with biblical faith and character.
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When Both Kids Want to Go First
When your two kids both want to do something first and you have no reason for one to go before the other – toss a coin. The one who calls it correctly does get to be first. The other one gets to keep the coin. The problem is solved without argument.
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Road Trip Memory Game Drives Bible Verses Home
“I was driving to work the other day thinking about all the road trips we took with our kids and the games we played as we drove down the highway,” says our parenting blogger, Linda Massey Weddle. “One of our favorite was the alphabet game …”
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Is Parenting Worth It? 
Parenting requires an immeasurable amount of time, energy and effort. Is it worth it? Yes … if you look at your role as a calling from God.
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Helpful Resources for Parents
Parents, you’ll find a host of resources that help your kids get the most out of Awana ... and that support you in raising them to know, love and serve Christ!
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Make Family Night Matter to Your Kids
Have Awana at home with Family Team Time Cards! They’re modeled after the tested three-part design of Awana, featuring a Game Time, Handbook Time and Bible Time. Now you can have fun, meaningful times of spiritual enrichment in the home.
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Memory Verses: Tools for Life
Think of life as a camping trip and the brain as a backpack. You never know what your kids will face in life. You want them to be prepared with a mind and heart filled with the right things – the Word of God.
How Bible memory verses prepare kids for life 

24 Ways to Make Family Meals Matter
Kids who regularly eat dinner at home with their parents are, by and large, better behaved, emotionally more stable, stronger academically, happier, more connected to their family, more receptive to their parents’ leadership and less likely to give in to peer pressure.
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