The Parenting Compass
Your weekly guide to more intentional parenting.
One practical idea each week. Straight to your inbox.
Fair Doesn't Always Mean Equal
Giving your children what they need likely won't appear fair to them and sometimes even you.
Stop Parenting For Your Child's Approval
Helping your child understand doesn't mean they have to agree.
Your Child's Emotions Are Not an Emergency
Emotions can often create urgency, but should they?
Don't Raise Well-Behaved Cowards
Obedience matters. So does courage. Your child needs both.
Don't Waste Their Mistakes
In this issue, we discuss how natural consequences often become a child's best teacher.
Your Marriage Is Parenting
In this issue, we explore how your marriage shapes your children's understanding of love, commitment, and family.
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.

