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The Five Best Tips for Praying with Kids

I couldn’t be more excited about sharing these five tips with you - it feels like praying with kids brings us down through all the layers of our busy lives to the heartbeat of our homes. The ways we talk about God and the ways we talk to him and the stories we tell about what he’s done weave the fabric for who our families become.

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Kara Hock Kara Hock

The Best Kept Secret for Praying for Kids

Praying the Scriptures for Your Children will give you the hand-holds to memorize scripture in a way that is incredibly helpful for our home in actually shaping the lives and hearts of our little ones.

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Kara Hock Kara Hock

Five Practical Self-Care Ideas for Busy Moms

Now, don’t get me wrong, I am all about those things you think of that stereotypically relate to self-care: getting your nails done or taking a hot bath or reading in bed with your favorite snacks at the end of the day. But this list is going to be a lot more practical than that. If our desire is to glorify God in our home, let’s start with a focus on true self-care over self-indulgence. Like, go buy a water bottle you like so that you’ll drink some water, okay? That’s not actually on this list, but it probably should be.

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