Kingdom parents, THIS IS IT. 🧡 Every single one of you who signed up for the Everything Parent Award your certificate is below. Find your name. Download it. Print it. And then go get a frame because this is going on your wall. This is not a participation trophy. This is not something you scroll past and forget about. This is a declaration. A reminder. Something your children will see hanging in your home one day and ask about and you will get to tell them that you never gave up, even when it was hard. So here is what I need you to do right now: Download your certificate. Print it out. Get a frame any frame, any store. Put it somewhere you will see it every single day. May 31st is almost here and I need you ready. Not just for the day but for what this represents. You did the work. You stayed. You healed. You showed up. And now it is time to celebrate that out loud. All certificates are attached below as a PDF file Do not let this sit in your downloads. Print it. Frame it. Own it. You earned this. 🧡 In honor of Frances Marie Williams. @Courtnie Harris @Jennifer Baumgart @Tjmarii Hastings @Soranlly Castillo @Teniqua Spence @Janelle Alexander @Precious Rouse @Tilanie Williams @Joy Perry @Amma Alexander @Renee Smith @Amanda Griffith @Keisha Valdez @Jeanne Carron @Martha Munro @Jahquette Davis @Bianca Fields @Shanai Blake @Alonna Brickhouse @Adriana Perez

You need to know who your teenager is eating lunch with. Not just their name. Their values. Their home life. Their parents. What they laugh at. What they post. What they talk about when nobody's watching. Because that friend group is not just keeping your child company. They are shaping them. Proverbs 13:20 says it plainly.... walk with the wise and become wise. Walk with fools and suffer for it. Your teenager is becoming who they spend time with. And if you have never had a real conversation about what makes a good friend they are choosing friends based on who is fun, who is popular, and who accepts them. Not who is good for them. Here's what I need you to do this week — Ask your teenager to tell you about their three closest friends. Not "are they good kids." —Ask what do you like about them? What do they believe? How do they treat people? How do they treat you? Listen to the answers. Because your teenager will tell you everything you need to know if you ask the right questions without making it feel like an interrogation. Know the village that's raising your child. Because they have one whether you built it or not.

"Because I said so." It worked when they were 6. It doesn't work at 14. And there's a reason for that. Teenagers are in a developmental stage where their brain is literally wiring itself to question authority. That is not rebellion…. that is biology. They are trying to figure out: - What do I actually believe? - Who am I outside of my parents? - Does this rule make sense or am I just being controlled? When you answer every question with "because I said so" you're not teaching them. You're just building resentment. Your house still has rules. God is still the head. And yes, there are some things that are non-negotiable. But when you explain your WHY something changes "We don't talk like that in this house because words carry weight and God holds us accountable for every one of them." "You have a curfew because I love you and the world at midnight is not the same world at 8pm. If you can’t agree you can stay home" "I need you to respect me because I am your parent and God placed me in your life for your protection not your punishment. If you don’t there will be consequences" When teenagers understand the WHY behind the rule they don't always agree. But they respect it more. And they start learning how to think not just obey. That's the goal. Not robots. Not rebels. Teenagers who know God, know themselves, and know how to make wise decisions when you're not in the room. What's a rule in your house that you've never really explained the WHY behind?

This might make you uncomfortable? Your teenager's attitude is not the real problem. I know. I know it FEELS like the problem when they're rolling their eyes at everything you say. When they slam doors. When they answer you in that tone that makes you want to lose your entire saved soul. But ............ Attitude is a language. And your teenager is fluent in it because somewhere along the way... words stopped feeling safe. That doesn't mean you accept disrespect in your home. You don't. We're going to talk about that this week. But before you can address the behavior you have to understand what's underneath it. A teenager with a constant attitude is a teenager who feels: - Unheard - Controlled without being respected - Like they can't get anything right - Like their feelings don't matter in this house None of that makes the eye rolling okay. But it does mean your response has to go deeper than "fix your face before I fix it for you." This week we're going into all of it. The attitudes. The disrespect. The door slamming. The silence that feels louder than a scream. Because your teenager needs you to understand them before they'll ever listen to you. Does your teen have an attitude problem? Tell me what it looks like in your house. Let's talk about it.

Father, Today we repent. Not just for what we’ve done but for what we failed to do. You called us to lead our children. To train them. To guide them in the way they should go. And Lord, forgive us for the times we withheld the correction they needed because we were tired, overwhelmed, passive, distracted, or afraid of upsetting them. Forgive us for calling it “gentle parenting” when sometimes it was avoidance.Forgive us for allowing attitudes, disrespect, lying, manipulation, laziness, entitlement, and disobedience to grow unchecked. Because every time we ignored what should have been corrected…we robbed our children of the training You assigned us to give them. Forgive us for shrinking back from leadership. Forgive us for wanting peace more than order.Forgive us for choosing convenience over consistency.Forgive us for disciplining emotionally one day and ignoring behavior the next. You never called us to just keep our children comfortable. You called us to prepare them. So today, strengthen us as parents. Give us wisdom to correct with love and firmness.Teach us how to discipline without anger but also without passivity. Remove guilt that keeps us from enforcing boundaries.Remove fear that keeps us from saying no.Remove laziness in us where we have stopped training our children intentionally. Father, help us understand that correction is not rejection. Discipline is discipleship. And we do not want to fail our assignment by refusing to lead. Teach us how to coach our children toward maturity, responsibility, honor, and self-control. Let our homes not be led by emotion, chaos, or entitlement. Restore order.Restore structure.Restore intentional parenting. And where we’ve gotten it wrong give us grace to reset. We will not parent perfectly.But we will parent intentionally. Because our children deserve guidance, not neglect disguised as freedom. And we declare that from this day forward, we will lead our children with wisdom, consistency, truth, and love. In Jesus’ name,Amen.