Search Results authoritative Faith • Parenting May 8, 2020 God as an Authoritative Parent, and Why Our World Needs Him in This Way Recently, I published an article which posited that to more fully understand God the Father, we must also come to understand what it means to be a dad on Earth. […] Full Article Parenting Jan 5, 2018 The Essential Elements for Effective Parenting “Noah’s head is bleeding.” I had just stepped inside after my bike home from work. The day had started at 5 AM with an early training session and had ended […] Full Article Parenting Dec 22, 2017 When to Control — When to Let Go “Do you have any idea just how much I’ve given up so that you can do this?” In the 1960’s, a developmental and clinical psychologist born in an Irish community […] Full Article Parenting Dec 22, 2017 Are We Losing Our Parental Will? Some time ago, a pediatrician that I respect greatly stopped by my office to chat. In the midst of the conversation, he smiled, and spontaneously mentioned that he had seen […] Full Article Parenting Dec 21, 2017 Someday When You Are An Adult At one point or another, most of us heard it when we were a kid. Probably more than we wanted. Whether our parents decided that our requests were too far-fetched […] Full Article Parenting Dec 21, 2017 Understanding Why Authoritative Parenting Is About More Than Parenting Over the years, I have spoken much about the topic of parenting styles, and specifically about the research related to authoritative parenting as opposed to authoritarian or permissive parenting. Simply […] Full Article All Articles