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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...
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May 29, 20252 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...
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May 15, 20252 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.
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May 8, 20252 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.
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May 1, 20252 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: How to Proactively Parent
The foundation of Unison Parenting is a process called Proactive Parenting.
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Apr 17, 20252 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 10, 20252 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?
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Apr 3, 20252 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
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Mar 20, 20252 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.
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Mar 13, 20252 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.
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Mar 6, 20252 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 13, 20252 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.
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Feb 6, 20252 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.
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Jan 30, 20252 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.
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Jan 16, 20252 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.
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Jan 9, 20252 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.
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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.
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Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: Melding Family Traditions
What I'm about to describe is easy to read but can be very hard to implement. When you become a couple, you become a new family. Each of...
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Nov 28, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: What to Do with the Cookie
This is the first of a two-part series (the other is in Further Insights) on making parenting decisions in front of your children.
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Nov 14, 20242 min read
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Unison Parenting Blog: The Amoeba
Children don't mature in all facets of life in perfect proportions, like a gingerbread person. They might be better described as amoebas.
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Nov 7, 20242 min read
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