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Challenges for Families

By Christine McPheter

Today’s world is filled with challenges for families.  Parents unprepared for parenthood, changing social norms and expectations, economic difficulties, increasing peer pressure, and COVID disturbances.    Together they are escalating family problems and straining many families to the breaking points.

A family is a place of warmth when the world is cold;
a place of safety when the world is hostile;
a place of light when the world is dark.  Family ties quotes

Successful parents are:  those who realize that the hopes and dreams they have for their children won’t just happen.  They have to work for them!

Successful parents also have discovered five simple, yet essential things each of us, as parents, needs to know and do if our dreams for our children are to be realized.

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