Helicopter Parenting

Care Pastor and Psychologist Merry C. Lin talks about the pressure that new parents face to be "perfect parents". Merry mentions that she was afraid of traumatizing her child through her parental mistakes when she first became a mother. 

Intentional Parenting includes Having Fun

A happy childhood requires some serious fun that lead to positive memories. How can we make sure we have enough fun as a family in today's fast-paced and busy world? We can decide to schedule fun by prioritizing family vacations and by creating fun family traditions.

Intentional Parenting

Parenting is really, really difficult. One reason it's difficult to be a good parent is because parenting requires us to give up our own selfishness. Ouch!

Dough Fields has a lot of experience from working with children and shares some great parenting advice in this video. Episode 3 focuses on why it's important for us to be present and create a peaceful home for our children.

The Pressure of Having It All

Author and speaker Jen Hatmaker shares her wisdom on parenting and keeping the balance in life. Jen says that her goal when it comes to parenting and life in general is to do a "good enough" job. If she's a good enough mom, wife or friend, that's enough! We don't have to do everything perfectly.

There's a freedom that comes when we learn to let go of everyone's expectations on us. We can also choose to stop comparing our real lives to everyone else's highly edited lives online.