by Kelly Heath | Jun 2, 2021 | Parents and Mentors
Engage in the Hard Conversations (7 Ways to Connect with Your Teen, Part 4) Several years ago, Sarah, who was about ten years old at the time, came in and sat on my bed. “Momma, how do you really know Jesus is real?” For the next hour, I sat there answering...
by Kelly Heath | May 20, 2021 | Parents and Mentors
Welcome to Part 3 of the series 7 Ways to Connect with Your Teen! Today we’ll be discussing how we need to listen more than we talk. If you missed them, here is Part 1: Pray With Them and For Them and Part 2: Make Time for Them. We had a saying in my early...
by Kelly Heath | May 7, 2021 | Parents and Mentors
Are you the mean parent or the fun one? Do your kids talk to you or do you feel like you have to pry even the vaguest detail out of them? When was the last time you felt like you really connected with your teen? Generally, I’m the mean parent (if you know Jeff, you...
by Kelly Heath | Jul 31, 2020 | Faith, Parents and Mentors
School starts for us next week. In two weeks, we will take Sarah and drop her off at college. As you can imagine, there is a lot of preparation going on in our home right now! What is the best way to prepare for something new? Do you make lists or make piles? Do you...
by Kelly Heath | Apr 3, 2020 | Parents and Mentors
CONGRATULATIONS!! If you’ve made it this far, you deserve a milkshake or something! The posts in this series have been quite a bit longer than I usually write, but the information on this topic is just so important, I couldn’t figure out how to shorten it. So thanks...