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Unison Parenting Blog: Loveless Marriages Harm Children
In my last blog, I said there was something worse for children than divorce. How about loveless marriages? Parents in troubled marriages...
cecil2748
Jun 201 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Divorce Impacts Children, For Better or For Worse
It's no surprise that divorce is hard on children. But how parents handle the divorce can significantly change children's lives. And one...
cecil2748
Jun 122 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: People Are Watching You
Matthew 5:14-16 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it...
cecil2748
Jun 52 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Inspect Not Expect
The single mom was desperate. Her three teenaged sons, an 18-year-old and 13-year-old twins, would not clean up after themselves. The...
cecil2748
May 292 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Showing Loving Faithfulness to Your Child
What bigger trust is there than to be responsible for a child? We must not only show our faithfulness toward God in this charge but also...
cecil2748
May 152 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Tenderly Loving Your Child
Even as we manage our children, we need to openly and clearly love them as well, with tenderness.
cecil2748
May 82 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Lean Toward, Not Away
When we disagree with how our parenting partner is interacting with our child, we tend to lean the other way to balance. This only sets off a tug of war between parents. To solve the problem, lean toward each other, not away.
cecil2748
May 12 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: How to Proactively Parent
The foundation of Unison Parenting is a process called Proactive Parenting.
cecil2748
Apr 172 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Be a Light
How do we help our children with the temptations and influences they face? Teach them to be a light.
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Apr 102 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: What did COVID kids miss?
The Covid era meant that our children missed some developmental milestones as a result. What does this mean to us as parents?
cecil2748
Apr 32 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Becoming Confident in Your Child's Decision-Making
When you develop your child's decision-making process, you may not agree with every decision, but you can feel good about how they got there
cecil2748
Mar 202 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Modeling Reading to Your Children
Not only is it important to teach your child to read, but it's important for them to see you reading too.
cecil2748
Mar 132 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Teaching Kids about Failure
Cecil uses baseball as an example and analogy of the value of letting kids learn from failure.
cecil2748
Mar 62 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Your Parents' Influence on Your Parenting
We often parent the way our parents did, or we do the opposite. Neither may be right.
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Feb 132 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Question-Based Sex Education
Parents can be shy or evasive about sex education for their child. But kids are curious. Use their curiosity to have short talks about sex.
cecil2748
Feb 62 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Your Child's Love Tank
Don't let your child run on empty. Frequently replenish your supply of love so that they clearly understand your love and encouragement.
cecil2748
Jan 302 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: The Most Damaging Parenting Style
Of the four parenting styles, one stands out as the most ominous, causing the most long-term damage to children.
cecil2748
Jan 162 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Allowing Your Child to Choose
Allowing your child to gradually, incrementally make their own choices pays off when they become of age.
cecil2748
Jan 92 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: How Parenting Grows Your Faith
Life experiences test and grow our faith. Few experiences accomplish this like parenting.
cecil2748
Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Agreeing on What's for Dinner
Parents need to be in unison on the big stuff. They also need be in unison on the smaller stuff, like what food to eat.
cecil2748
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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