Parenting
Raising children. Growing alongside them.
Parenting asks us to grow, too, in patience, understanding, and the way we respond when life gets hard. Explore Orthodox Christian perspectives and practical guidance for nurturing connection, setting loving limits, and living the faith with your children.
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Becoming parents is one of the most life changing events for many of us. While we may be deeply committed to being good parents, we often don’t know what that means or how to put it into practice. As Christian parents, we know that we are called to teach our children about God and how to live their lives according to His word. This too can be challenging without spiritual guidance and community support. We believe parenting is a divine calling and we are here to share and help you to live out this commitment.
At The Orthodox Family, we can’t make parenting easy, just like we can’t get your kids to listen to you the first time. We can, however, open up the path of how God is working in us, as parents, and in our children, through the challenges of daily life. And we can offer skills and strategies to help you respond to your children in ways that help them grow as Children of God.
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When Your child is hurting and you want to fix it
When your child is hurting, the desire to make everything better can be overwhelming. In this conversation with Faithtree, Dr. Philip Mamalakis explores how to separate your own fear from your child’s struggle so you can respond with greater calm and care.
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How To Get Your Kids To Listen Without Yelling
Listening can be hard, even for adults. So how can we raise children who listen well—to us and to the other people around them?
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When the House Is a Mess and You Feel Like You’re Failing
Dr. Mamalakis explains why peace isn’t the absence of chaos, shares why our kids need a peaceful mother more than a spotless home and reminds us that naming our guilt out loud can loosen its grip.
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The Parenting Goal We Often Get Wrong
If you’ve ever struggled to keep a wiggly four-year-old quiet during the Anaphora, you know how easily our sense of success as parents can get tangled up with how our kids behave.
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How to Stay Peaceful When Life Feels Chaotic
Some days the sacred feels impossibly far away—buried under the laundry, the backpacks, the dishes in the sink.
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How Perfectionism Hurts Parents and Their Kids
It’s easy to get caught up in perfectionism in a world that gives us so much to worry about and so many “perfect” families to measure ourselves against.
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