Mama Bear: What Makes Moms Amazing?
I’m Jeff Schadt, the founder of Revive Family and we’re going to begin this year by encouraging moms. In today’s busy, hectic world, where moms are working outside the home more often and the pace of kids’ activities has increased, moms find themselves facing more pressure than ever That is why, if you’re a dad […]
Compassion 2020: A Family Resolution
Thanks for returning today. I’m Jeff Schadt, the founder of Revive Family. I hope you had a truly blessed, peaceful, and meaningful Christmas. If you didn’t read or listen to the Meaningful Christmas blog or Podcast series I would recommend it. It deals with the essential building blocks of healthy relationships, which build the platform […]
A Meaningful Christmas – The Gift of Great Relationships – part 3
Last week in Part Two of my blog, A Meaningful Christmas, we began talking about the building blocks of a healthy relationship and how relationships are the only things that lead to fulfillment in life according to a 75 year Harvard study. Since the best gift we can give our kids is healthy relationships let’s […]
A Meaningful Christmas Loving Our Family – part 2
As we pursue A Meaningful Christmas, we talked last week about how giving, sharing, and gratefulness impact how we’re feeling, our outlook on life, and even our health. Celebrating Jesus birth is a great time to give, share and be grateful for the blessings that we’ve received. Doing this as a family can make a […]
A Meaningful Christmas of Giving, Sharing and Gratefulness – part 1
Christmas brings an immense amount of anticipation to some of us, especially those of us with younger kids. For others it can be overwhelming, a disappointment or kick off a sense of loneliness. So, how do we make Christmas joyful and meaningful no matter where we find ourselves? Believe it or not the answer can […]
The Jesus Your Kids Will Follow: Part Four
The research I did for my book, Going, Going, Gone, made it clear that we need to examine how we talk about and teach the Faith to our kids. Too many kids are leaving the Faith today. Seventy, eighty or even ninety percent of kids depart the faith; it depends on whom you talk to.
The Jesus Our Kids Will Follow: Part Three
I’m Jeff Schadt, author of Going, Going, Gone, a book that looks into the many reasons kids are leaving the faith. Given all my interaction with kids around the country, I can say that one of the reasons they’re leaving the faith is this way we tend to talk and interact with them about faith. […]
The Jesus Our Kids Will Follow: Part Two
This is the second installment in a series that is close to my heart. We are focusing on how the church can stem the tide of young people leaving the faith and how we as parents can help to ensure that our own children learn to love and follow the real Jesus. In my last […]
The Jesus Our Kids Will Follow: Part One
Today we are starting an important series to help parents understand how to talk to their kids about God in a way that will draw them to Him, rather than push them away.
Lessons from a Technology Outage: A Technology Fast
There is no question technology makes things easier and faster, when it’s working… but does it make life better? What would happen if we lost all cell and internet service?
Screen Time. Kids and Mental Health
We all desire to have healthy kids! We may think that screen time leads to issues and takes our kids away from us. This fear has some basis given that screen time for kids has doubled in the last 10 years. A great deal has been written about the damaging effects of technology use on […]
Parenting with Love – Part Two
We all want to feel connected in our homes. We want to be close to our kids. This becomes difficult when the sense of being loved breaks down due to issues and conflicts. We can lose the desire to please each other. By contrast, when everyone is feeling loved, cooperation springs forth. Helping each other […]