By Natasha Crain I don’t normally write just to moms—my readers are both moms and dads—but in honor of Mother’s Day this one is specifically for all the moms out there. For the past few days, I’ve been sick with some kind of flu/cold combination. Yesterday, I pulled...
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How Facebook Can Make You a Better Christian Parent
By Natasha Crain I’ve finally wrapped up my next book, taken a couple of weeks to recover, and am ready to get back to blogging! I have a lot to tell you about my new book, but it doesn’t come out until October, so I’ll wait a bit to share more about it. As I worked...
5 Attitude Changes That Will Transform Your Christian Parenting in the New Year
By Natasha Crain It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to write a post because my nose has been buried in writing my new book (if you’re new to the blog or missed what I’m working on, you can read about it here!). My deadline is March 1, so my ability to write...
What it Takes to Raise a Christian Child in a Country Ruled by Moral Confusion
By Natasha Crain Oh, this election. How it’s brought out the worst in everyone, including the two people running for office. As crazy as the last few months leading up to the election have been, I haven’t felt inspired to write anything about it…until now. The...
5 Signs You’re Forcing Your Religion (or Atheism) on Your Kids… and 5 Signs You’re Not
By Natasha Crain Since my book, Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side, came out in March, I’ve been blessed to receive 75 five-star reviews of it on Amazon. To all who have taken the time to leave those reviews, thank you! It means a lot! In addition to those 75 reviews,...
3 Reasons Your Kids May Eventually Think Christianity is Worthless
By Natasha Crain During Vacation Bible School this summer, our church collected an offering to help an orphanage in Mexico. The kids were all encouraged to bring what they could to contribute toward the cause. My daughter, age 7, has always been very generous with her...
What Christian Parents Need to Know About New Age and Occult Beliefs
By Natasha Crain I’m excited to share an interview with Marcia Montenegro! Marcia was involved for many years in Eastern and New Age beliefs, and was a licensed professional astrologer. She became a Christian in 1990 and today has a ministry called Christian Answers...
Atheist Vs. Christian Summer Camps: Which More Effectively Taught Their Worldview This Summer?
By Natasha Crain A blog reader sent me some information recently on an atheist summer camp (thanks DD!). I was fascinated to read all that they are doing to promote an atheistic worldview with their young campers. It immediately made me wonder how Christian camps...
How to Talk to Your Kids About Hell
By Natasha Crain The other day, I received the following comment on an old blog post about hell: The belief in hell is sown into the hearts of many children which this blog advocates and this belief can reap major consequences. Children grow into adults....
3 Key Things Skeptics Will Say to Shame Your Kids for Being Christians
By Natasha Crain I haven’t blogged in the last couple of weeks because my family and I were on vacation. We went on a wonderful trip to the island of Grand Cayman! I successfully managed to avoid email while I was there, but that made for quite a backlog by the time I...
What To Teach Kids About Unanswered Prayer
By Natasha Crain My son Nathan wasn’t feeling well recently so we all prayed together for him to feel better. The next night at prayer time, Kenna pointed out that we prayed for him already but he wasn’t feeling better. She had a look of simultaneous confusion and...
The 5 Worst Beliefs a Christian Parent Can Have in an Imploding Society
By Natasha Crain America is changing fast, and not in the direction we’d like. In light of recent events, I don’t think I need to detail all the signs that point to an imploding society. We see it. We feel it. We fear it. Instead, I want to focus on our role as...
Don’t Be Afraid to Be the Cause of Your Kids’ Questions About Christianity
By Natasha Crain A couple of weeks ago, I started teaching a 5-week “Introduction to Apologetics” class to adults at a local church. In the first session, we talked about the evidence for the existence of God in nature—the origin of the universe, the design of life,...
30 Things You Can Do This Summer to Deepen Your Kids’ Faith
By Natasha Crain It’s now officially summer! For many families, that means a (slightly) less hectic schedule for a few glorious weeks. At the same time, it can mean small-scale panic at what to actually do with the extra time your kids have. Solution: Take the...
5 Things Christian Parents Must Do to Raise Godly Children in a Secular World
By Natasha Crain In the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to speak at several Christian conferences and churches on the importance of parents teaching their kids apologetics (how to make a case for and defend the truth of the Christian faith). When I...
Please Don’t Tell Your Kids to Believe in God Just in Case He Exists
By Natasha Crain Today’s post, like my last one, is in response to some comments I saw in a Facebook group recently. A mom posted that her 5-year-old asked, “How do we know God is real?” Amongst the many responses from fellow parents was this one: “I would say… Maybe...
Is Spiritual Truth a Matter of Opinion? An Open Letter to a Relativist
By Natasha Crain I received the following blog comment this week, packed with statements that your kids are likely to hear (and possibly come to believe) about the nature of truth. I wanted to reply to the commenter right here in a blog post because I feel there is so...
What Exactly is a Biblical Miracle? 3 Key Things Your Kids Should Understand
By Natasha Crain A few weeks ago in our family worship time, we were studying the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 (Matthew 14). After we finished the story, I asked what I thought was a pretty straightforward question: “So, how did Jesus feed 5,000 people with just a...
Don’t Expect Your Kids to Care What the Bible Says Unless You’ve Given Them Reason to Believe It’s True
By Natasha Crain A mom left a comment on one of my older posts the other day that said, “It sounds like you are teaching your kids to question the Bible. We should never teach our kids to question the Bible!” To that I say…Of course we should. Let’s not get confused,...
Why 99 out of 10 Millennials Leave The Church?
By Michael Sherrard As the scintillating Richard G. Howe says, “three out of two people are bad at fractions.” Fewer, I imagine, are good at statistics. Statistics are useful and powerful in telling a story but are often misleading. In fact, statistics can be used to...