Making family prayer time stick with teenagers
We've been trying to do prayers before dinner but getting everyone to actually be present and not on their phones is like herding cats. My 15 year old especially just goes through
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Christian faith for fathers. Leading by example, prayer life, raising godly kids, walking the walk at home.
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We've been trying to do prayers before dinner but getting everyone to actually be present and not on their phones is like herding cats. My 15 year old especially just goes through
My wife believes but she's not passionate about it the way I am. She thinks I'm a little too much sometimes with the Bible studies and church involvement. I worry that our kids wil
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So I lost my temper with my wife yesterday over something stupid and my 7 year old saw the whole thing. I felt awful. I apologized to both of them but I keep thinking about how I'm
Real talk, I haven't been living out my faith the way I should and my kids are starting to notice. I'm asking them to be honest and kind but I'm not always doing it myself. I snapp
Started doing 5 minute devotions every morning before school with the family and it's honestly changed our mornings. We read a verse, talk about it for a minute, pray together. My
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My son is in middle school and he's starting to see what's popular at school versus what we're teaching him at home. He wants to fit in and I get it, but I'm trying to help him und
We've been doing 15 minutes of Bible study with our four kids (ages 6, 8, 11, 13) every Sunday night for about 3 months now. I wasn't sure how it would go since the older kids are
My daughter asked me the other day why we need Jesus and it spiraled into questions about sin and whether she's going to hell. She got really worried about it and I could tell I wa
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I grew up in the church but drifted away in my twenties doing my own thing. Got married, had kids, and now I feel this weight that I need to be leading my family spiritually and I
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Been doing it for a couple years but tonight something was different. My 8 year old prayed for his friend who's struggling with his parents' divorce. Prayed with real compassion an
Been praying hard about this. I lose my temper over stupid stuff with the boys and then I feel terrible about it. My wife reminded me yesterday that they're watching how I handle f
My brother's kids basically live on video games and streaming garbage and he doesn't set any boundaries. My wife thinks our kids shouldn't spend time there unsupervised but it's fa
We just started doing 10 minutes every morning before breakfast, just reading a verse and talking about it. My kids are 7, 5, and 3 so I wasn't expecting much but they actually get
I want to raise my kids with strong faith but honestly I'm all over the place with my own prayer life and Bible reading. How can I expect my 6 and 8 year old to take this seriously
My 10 year old caught me losing my temper at another driver yesterday and called me out on it. He said 'Dad you always say we should be kind but you were really mean.' Killed me be
Started trying to pray with the family after dinner like my dad did growing up but my kids treat it like torture. They're fidgeting, my oldest makes jokes, my youngest falls asleep