Milestone Storehouse Parent Resources

Family Wins -celebrating your family

You and your family have made it to the end of another school year. Regardless of your school situation, it…

Family Traditions

Welcoming Kids Into Worship

Sometimes kids should remain with adults during church so they can experience the true heart of worship.

Prioritize Church, Even When There’s No Childcare

Before planting The Town Church in Fort Collins, Colorado, we attended a church in North Dakota that offered childcare up…

Let the Children Worship in Church

We pulled into our driveway exhausted. Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but this morning felt like…

How Can I Care for My Family When I Feel Overwhelmed as a Parent?

When my oldest child was just a toddler I was contacted by our church nursery to inform me that my…

What to Do When I Feel Lonely as a Parent?

I want you to consider an issue most parents experience, but few would ever want to talk about with others.…

How Can I Relationally Invest in My Teenager as They Grow Older?

Life with kids in the home can often move faster than we would like. One day they are babies you…

How Can I Maintain Perspective as a Parent?

Do you ever find yourself thinking: How is this all going to turn out? Will I mess up my kids?…

How Do I Know the Difference Between Guiding and Controlling My Teenager?

How do you guide your teenager without controlling them? Now, we understand that your teenager sometimes feels that most of…

How Do I Parent My Teenager when they Question their Faith?

Remember when your teenager was a child and had a question? Most questions were never simply answered but followed by…

What Are Some Practical Ways Busy Parents Can Spiritually Invest in their Teens?

Have you ever noticed that the older your kids become the faster time seems to move? It is almost like…

How Can I Encourage My Teen to Spend Time in God’s Word?

As followers of Christ, we know that spending personal time in God’s Word is essential to our growth regardless of…

How Can I Get My Teenager Talking More With Me About Their Faith?

Having spiritually deep conversations with your teenager can at times be challenging.  However, God has designed our families so that…

What If My Teenager Asks Me a Bible Question I Cannot Answer?

One of the biggest fears that I hear from parents is that they are scared to death that their kid…

What Do I Do if We Are Too Busy for Family Discipleship?

If you casually ask someone how they are doing, there is often a good chance you would hear the word…

How Do I Engage My Family with Prayer?

Most parents can smile when thinking back to when their teenager was a small child who folded their hands at…

How Do I Show Authority In My Home Without Pushing My Teenager Away?

“But why!? Why can’t I?” “Well, because I don’t think you should?” “But why?” “That’s just how I feel about…

How Do I Develop Healthy Communication with My Teenager

Have you ever received a text message from your teenager that made you laugh? I don’t mean because the content…

How Do I have a Conversation about Gender and Sexuality?

If you look at many modern college applications, you will see dozens of different options for selecting an individual’s gender.…

How Can I Get My Busy Family on the Same Page?

Sometimes families can feel like they are running in different directions. Plus, in all that running it is hard to…

How Can I Better Respond to My Teenager’s Emotional Outbursts?

Have you ever had an argument with your teenager?  I know, I know, is water wet right?  Disagreements between us…

What Can I Do to Avoid Shaming My Teen?

One thing I’ve noticed in social media is a tendency for parents to vent about their teenagers. This could be…

Helping My Teen Deal with Stress

We all know the teenage years are often filled with high levels of emotion, but combining that emotion with pressure…

What Do I Do When My Teenager Has Experienced Hurt in the Church?

We all know the pain of being hurt by someone, whether that is a stranger we barely know or a…

How Do I Help My Family Navigate Social Media?

I once heard a parent describe keeping up with social media to running up and down the beach to touch…

How Do I Guide My Teen in Dealing with Cyberbullying

Few things can rattle us as parents more than finding out that our child is being bullied. When another person…

How Do I Help My Family Navigate Technology in My Home?

Technology is one of those things in our lives that has become so commonplace we can forget what our life…

Kaspersky

This tool is available in a free version that offers many of the features parents want. Kaspersky Safe Kids enables…

Covenant Eyes

This accountability and filtering software sends a report of your internet activity to an individual you select. It’s especially targeted…

Qustodio

This cross-platform (Windows, iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle) program provides content filtering, app blocking and an online activity log. The dashboard…

Famisafe

This parental control app for kids’ smartphones (iOS and Android) enables parents to track children’s location, as well as blocking…

Net Nanny

This parental-control filter blocks unwanted apps, filters content and allows parents to monitor children’s web usage.

Norton Online Family

This parental-control filter shows sites your kids visit, provides app supervision and blocks inappropriate sites.

Bark

Monitoring for an unlimited number of devices. In addition to monitoring more than 30 apps and social media platforms, this…

How Do I Help My Teen Learn Responsibility?

Let’s talk about responsibility.  We all want to raise children that will become responsible and independent adults, right? We all…

How Do I Help My Teenager Make the Right Choices?

Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. Life is full of choices. When your child was young you made all the decisions for them…