The Parenting Compass
Your weekly guide to more intentional parenting.
One practical idea each week. Straight to your inbox.
Your Child Is Watching Someone. Make Sure It's You.
In this issue, we explore why your example often shapes your child more powerfully than your words.
Your Child Doesn't Need More Friends
In this issue, we explore why the quality of your child's friendships matters far more than the quantity.
Teach Them to Leave Well
In this issue, we discuss why teaching children to leave people and places well builds gratitude, humility, and respect.
Stop Solving Problems Your Child Can Solve
In this issue, we discuss when helping becomes hindering and how to raise confident problem-solvers.
Don’t Punish Childhood
In this issue, as parents, one of the most important things we can learn is to distinguish between childhood and sin.
To Spank or Not to Spank?
In this issue, most parents have an opinion. Few have considered what "the rod" actually meant.
The Best Thing About an Allowance Isn’t the Money
In this issue, how the dollars matter far less than the life lessons.
Your Teen Doesn’t Need More Lectures
In this issue, as our children become teenagers, our approach to conversations and advice has to change with them.
Great parents never stop doing this…
In this issue, we explore the reality that parenting is a learn-as-you-go experiment.
Don’t waste bedtime
In this issue, we examine how to move bedtime from the finish line of the day to intentional parenting time.
“Treat me like an adult!”
In this issue, we explore what your teen really means and how to actually treat them like an adult.
Less screens, more memories
In this issue, we discuss the value of activities in building lasting memories of your child’s time at home.
Stop counting to three
In this issue, Stop Counting to Three. Right away, obedience is possible. Find out how.
Set their direction daily
In this issue, we discuss how cultures bombard your children with messages. Be the first and most consistent daily voice.
Beware the power of your words
In this issue, correcting poor behavior while building the right identity.
Feelings are cues, not commands
In this issue, learn how to validate feelings without surrendering authority.