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Show Hope Book Club: The Connected Therapist
The Connected Therapist “Children have inherent worth regardless of how society might try to quantify their development. This isn’t a book about helping parents raise perfect kids. It’s a book about loving imperfect people, ourselves included,” author Marti Smith writes. “It’s about being compassionate, having empathy, and doing the best we can while striving to…
Hope for the Journey Hosts and Teaching Session Speakers
For 15 years, Show Hope’s Hope for the Journey has impacted more than 155,000 parents, caregivers, church leaders, and professionals with much-needed, paradigm-shifting insight, education, and training. That legacy continues as we launch hopeforthejourney.com, with a reimagined experience that better serves children and families, churches, and entire communities. Access Hope for the Journey teaching sessions,…
Will You Help Us Close the Gap?
Here’s the thing, we fell short in raising $500,000 at the end of calendar year 2024, and today, we need your help in closing the gap. By June 30, we have some lofty yet impactful goals to meet: Over the past two years, we have seen more than a 30 percent increase in Adoption Aid…
8 Tips for Building Strong Relationships Among Your Children
As parents and caregivers, we have the opportunity to help build strong relationships among our children. Sibling relationships can be complicated with rivalries and squabbles, and in many ways, these challenges are natural and as old as time. (Remember Cain and Abel? OK, that’s an extreme example.) However, as you work to build connection and…
Show Hope Book Club: Created to Connect
Created to Connect Our friends and partners at Empowered to Connect recently updated the “Created to Connect” study, a free resource designed to guide Christian parents through the biblical foundations of the book “The Connected Child” by Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dr. David Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine. From Empowered to Connect: “This resource has encouraged…
How to Advocate Well for Your Children at School
It has often been said that “it takes a village” to raise a child, and a critical member of that community is your children’s school. As a parent, it is important for you to connect and build relationships with your child or teen’s teachers, the school’s faculty, and the support staff around them. However, knowing…
