Real World Situations
Parenting and Children
Raising, disciplining, teaching, losing, and being reconciled to children. Every situation below is answered from the King James Bible only.
129 situations in this domain
Situations
- A blended family finding unity
- A child asking hard questions about God
- A child battling an eating disorder
- A child being bullied at school
- A child born with a disability
- A child facing peer pressure
- A child facing surgery
- A child glued to screens and devices
- A child in the hospital
- A child living a lifestyle against your faith
- A child running with the wrong crowd
- A child struggling in school
- A child struggling to make friends
- A child struggling with anger
- A child suffering abuse
- A child testing your patience daily
- A child who blames you for the past
- A child who has rejected your values
- A child who is disrespectful and rude
- A child who lies
- A child who no longer wants to go to church
- A child who steals
- A child who talks of harming himself
- A child with a chronic illness
- A child's baptism
- A depressed teenager
- A father raising children largely alone
- A father setting an example for his household
- A father who lost his job and fears for his family
- A gifted child and the pressure to succeed
- A grandparent raising grandchildren
- A missing child
- A mother's quiet daily labor for her children
- A parent facing the death of a grown child
- A premature baby fighting for life
- A prodigal or wayward child
- A rebellious child
- A rebellious child who defies your authority
- A stepparent earning a stepchild's trust
- A teenager caught in addiction
- A teenager staying out late and defying rules
- A teenager who slams the door and shuts you out
- A wayward child returning home
- Adopting a child into your family
- An adult child who has cut off contact
- An adult child who has left the faith
- An anxious or fearful child
- Apologizing to your child when you were wrong
- Balancing work and time with your children
- Becoming a grandparent for the first time
- Blended families and stepchildren
- Blessing your children with words
- Breaking a generational pattern of harshness
- Bringing home your first child
- Co-parenting with a former spouse
- Comparing yourself to other parents
- Correcting a child in anger you regret
- Dedicating a newborn to the Lord
- Disciplining a child without provoking resentment
- Disciplining your children
- Discovering pornography on a child's device
- Fathers and their sons
- Fear for a child's safety
- Feeling like a failure as a parent
- Finding rest as an overwhelmed parent
- Forgiving yourself for your failures as a parent
- Fostering a child in your home
- Grandparents pouring faith into grandchildren
- Guarding against favoritism among your children
- Guarding what your children watch and hear
- Guarding your children against worldly influences
- Guilt over time missed with your children
- Homeschooling and teaching your children daily
- Infertility
- Leading a child to salvation
- Leading family worship in the home
- Letting a child fail and learn
- Letting an adult child go
- Loosening the reins on a growing teenager
- Loving an adopted child through attachment struggles
- Miscarriage
- Missing your children during a custody arrangement
- Modeling honesty and integrity before your children
- Mothers and their daughters
- Naming your child
- Nursing a newborn through sleepless nights
- Praying at a child's bedside at night
- Praying for a wandering child to come home
- Praying over a child's future spouse
- Praying when you don't know how to reach your child
- Providing for your children in hard times
- Raising a child with special needs
- Raising a strong-willed toddler
- Raising children in poverty
- Raising children in the faith
- Raising children to love their siblings
- Reconciling with an estranged child
- Sending a child off to college
- Sending a grown child into military service
- Setting boundaries with a manipulative child
- Sibling rivalry in the home
- Single parenting
- Teaching a child to obey the first time
- Teaching children about God
- Teaching children contentment amid comparison
- Teaching children generosity and giving
- Teaching children gratitude
- Teaching children to be kind to the poor and outcast
- Teaching children to forgive
- Teaching children to guard their tongue
- Teaching children to honor their parents
- Teaching children to stand alone for what is right
- Teaching children to work and take responsibility
- Teaching your children the Scriptures
- Teaching your children to pray
- The empty nest after the last child leaves
- The loss of a child
- Toilet training and the small daily battles
- Trusting God with a child beyond your control
- Watching a grown child marry
- Watching an adult child make choices you disagree with
- Weariness and burnout in the daily grind of parenting
- When one child feels less loved than another
- When you fear you are running out of time to shape your child
- When you fear you are too harsh with your children
- When you fear you are too lenient with your children
- When you struggle to show affection to your children
- When your child mirrors your worst faults
- When your ex-spouse turns the children against you