Family and faith is a collection of ideas, encouragement and resources for spending fun quality time with your family and tips and ideas for parenting from a Christian perspective.
We all have special prayer requests for our families, as well as ourselves. We want the Lord to keep our husbands safe and bless them as they’re at work and as they travel. We want the Lord to help our children to grow to know Jesus as their personal Savior. With so much at stake, …
Handwashing is one of those fundamental life skills that all children need to master at an early age. Teaching preschoolers how to wash their hands requires consistency. They need to be taught the best way to wash their hands and when to do it. Then they need to reminded (over and over). The habit of …
There is one thing that every parent buying toys for 4 year olds, learns sooner or later. It’s that no matter how cute a toy is or how educational the toy is, if the child doesn’t like it, it’s just going to sit around collecting dust until the next yard sale. You may have also …
Generations of preschoolers have grown up memorizing the phrase, “Never talk to strangers.” As a preschooler, they learn about stranger danger in books during storytime. They sing songs about tricky people, with their favorite- fun-loving characters like Elmo or Barney the Dinosaur. As a preschool teacher, it was a lesson I taught every year. But …
Go Fish is one of the first card games kids learn to play. It’s an easy game to learn. The mystery of guessing what cards the other players are holding makes it that much more fun. Games like this offer many other benefits, in addition to the fun. They teach children to follow directions, improve …
If you’re looking for the Best Board Games for 5 -6 year olds, you’ve found it! These are games that make learning fun! So much fun kids don’t even realize they are learning critical and strategic thinking skills, logic, math and memory skills. Not to mention, friendly competition, good sportsmanship and how to follow directions. …
Have you ever been excited to see a new trending family movie with the kids, only to be utterly disappointed at the content? We live in a day and age where we can stream movies and TV shows 24/7. The entertainment industry seems to have no limits when it comes to inappropriate content for us …
