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  • Blessed Are Those Who Hunger  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Jan 30, 2010
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     | 6,722 views

    Blessed Are Those Who Hunger A family had the habit of treating their children for ice cream after the church service. One Sunday the father decided to break the habit. The children were not happy about it. They started whining. The father decided use spirituality to deal with the situation. He ...read more

  • According To A Survey By The Ladies Home ...

    Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
     | 1,565 views

    According to a survey by the Ladies Home Journal: o About a third of all mothers spend ten or more hours per day with their children; another 47 percent devote four to nine hours daily. Eighty-two percent consider at least half of their parenting hours “quality time.” o Almost every mother polled ...read more

  • Even In A "Good Divorce," Where Parents Amicably ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,407 views

    Even In A “Good Divorce,” where parents amicably minimize their conflicts, children inhabit a more difficult emotional landscape than those in intact families, according to a new survey. Divorce restructures children’s childhoods and leaves them traveling between two distinct worlds. It becomes ...read more

  • Even In A "Good Divorce," Where Parents Amicably ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 822 views

    Even In A “Good Divorce,” where parents amicably minimize their conflicts, children inhabit a more difficult emotional landscape than those in intact families, according to a new survey. Divorce restructures children’s childhoods and leaves them traveling between two distinct worlds. It becomes ...read more

  • The Energy Of Praise  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2002
    based on 25 ratings
     | 7,554 views

    THE ENERGY OF PRAISE A study was done by psychologist Dr. Henry H. Goddard, on energy levels in children. He used an instrument he called the "ergograph." How he ever got some children to stand still long enough to connect them to the machine is a mystery. But he did, and his findings ...read more

  • Christmas Changed In A Hurry For Mike And Tiffany ...

    Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 24, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,394 views

    Christmas changed in a hurry for Mike and Tiffany Bailey from one year to the next. In 2001, their neat house with the white picket fence was fairly quiet. Like all of their past Christmas seasons, Mike and Tiffany had gone to parties, exchanged gifts, attended family get-togethers, and prayed for ...read more

  • In A Local Mall, Someone Noticed That The ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 17, 2008
     | 1,478 views

    In a local mall, someone noticed that the lingerie store with scantily clad women on the windows was next door to a children’s store. Could it be a coincidence that the ...read more

  • In 1212 A French Shepherd Boy By The Name Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
     | 2,494 views

    In 1212 a French shepherd boy by the name of Steven claimed that Jesus had appeared to him disguised as a pilgrim. Supposedly, Jesus instructed him to take a letter to the king of France. This poor, misguided boy told everyone he saw about what he thought he had encountered. Before long he had ...read more

  • Some Fascinating Psychological Detective Work Was ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 24, 2004
    based on 27 ratings
     | 822 views

    Some fascinating psychological detective work was once done in a second-grade classroom. The teacher had complained that the children were getting harder and harder to control. They were standing up and roaming around the room rather than doing their work. Two psychologists spent several days at ...read more

  • Talk About Doing Good, Or Do Good

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
     | 7,968 views

    Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote: A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it ...read more

  • The Orphan Train

    Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Dec 15, 2016
     | 7,600 views

    THE ORPHAN TRAIN In the history of the westward migration in the United States, part of the story has been largely passed over. From 1850 to 1930, tens of thousands of those who populated the west were orphans--children from eastern cities who were without parents because of disease or the death ...read more

  • Diverse Gifts  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 16, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
     | 3,847 views

    [illustration] On Christmas morning, the children in a family do not usually all receive the same gifts. One gets a football, one a puzzle, another receives a doll house, and another a table game. Yet, although each child does not receive the same gifts as the others, the parents intend the gifts ...read more

  • In 1986 Paul Vitz, Wrote A Book Entitled, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
    based on 6 ratings
     | 1,457 views

    In 1986 Paul Vitz, wrote a book entitled, Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children’s textbooks. Now, Paul Vitz is not some Bible-thumper, he is a professor of psychology at N.Y.U. and for his study he systematically examined some 90 widely used school textbooks. He wanted to answer the ...read more

  • Forgive My Skepticism, But I've Conducted Highly ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,436 views

    Forgive my skepticism, but I’ve conducted highly scientific observations of my children’s bedrooms, and the natural progression of things there isn’t that they get better and better on their own. In fact, ...read more

  • A Hurricane Was Coming. All The People, Family ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2002
    based on 63 ratings
     | 1,754 views

    A hurricane was coming. All the people, family and those working on the farm that day, had hurried into the shelter. They were huddled together in a dark hurricane shelter with the winds howling and rattling the only door that everybody could see in the front of the shelter. The wind was blowing ...read more

  • Why Should I Forgive?  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 31, 2003
    based on 13 ratings
     | 6,202 views

    WHY SHOULD I FORGIVE? During a children’s sermon one Sunday morning, I held up an ugly-looking summer shirt that I wore occasionally around the house. I explained to the children that someone said the shirt was ugly and should be thrown away. "This really hurt me," I explained. "I’m having ...read more

  • He Comes To Us

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 22, 2008
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    He Comes to Us During a Christmas program, the children's choir sang. A girl had a solo part and a pretty red dress that she could not wait to wear. When her time to sing came, she forgot the words and fell apart in tears. She walked back to the choir sobbing. Soon, the other children were ...read more

  • Child Slaves

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 2, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,864 views

    CHILD SLAVES Over two hundred million children around the world, some as young as four and five years old, are slaves. A majority of the children work in Asia, especially in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia--slaving away to make goods for us to buy in K-Mart and Wal-Mart... "Child slave ...read more

  • I Don't Want To Be One!

    Contributed by Christopher Gregas on Sep 8, 2012
     | 2,871 views

    I DON'T WANT TO BE ONE! There was a pastor that was giving a "children’s sermon" to all the young children. And as they sate before him, a bright-eyed three-year-old girl listened intently as he explained that God wanted them all to get along and love each other. "God wants us all to be one," he ...read more

  • Child Care: The Nation's Largest Childcare ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 2,165 views

    Child Care: The nation’s largest childcare providers are the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention with nearly 10,000 childcare centers between them. Since ’97, the number of church-based childcare centers has risen by 26% versus a 19% increase in all U.S childcare centers. ...read more