Our kids need to learn how to manage money wisely: saving, spending, being responsible with digital money, tithing, stewardship, and being a cheerful giver. What about allowances? How do you deal with entitlement issues? Should the teaching approach be different with boys and girls? What about debt? We need to very intentionally teach our kids about money. Steve and Kara talk about all these things and more in this episode of HomeWise.

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How can you keep food from becoming a battleground in your home? How do we responsibly care for our bodies, while keeping food from becoming overly important in our households? How can you deal with children who are picky eaters? How can you make big dietary changes when you have kids in the household? What about doing hospitality when so many people have food sensitivities? Can the relationship to food in your home set your daughters up for eating disorders?

There is a tendency in our culture to turn food and diet into an idol. Healthy food can become an idol as well as unhealthy food. It can become over-prioritized and put other more important things out of balance. Join Steve and Kara as they talk about maintaining a wise relationship to food within the family.

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Giving spiritual instruction to your children is a parent's responsibility. How does the atmosphere of your home help or hinder this? Can this kind of atmosphere be planned or manufactured? What kind of tools can be used for spiritual instruction? What place do storybooks, catechisms, and memorization have? How can we teach our children to apply what they are learning to the life they are living? How can we help our children seek and find biblical answers to their questions? Join Steve and Kara as they talk about spiritual instruction within the family.

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Who are your children's friends? How much should you interfere in your child's relationships? How can you encourage good and edifying friendships and discourage detrimental ones? How can your kids be a good influence on kids that need encouragement without being too influenced by them? How can you protect your kids from dangerous friendships? Are church friendships always safe and good? Join Kara and Steve for a conversation on wise friendships in the childhood years.

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When you make big changes to your family's lifestyle, or experience a change of conviction that changes things for your kids, especially older kids, it is important to help them make the change with you. Conversations with your kids are extremely important when you are making changes in your family or lifestyle. Helping your kids to understand and own the changes along with you can be a delicate but rewarding thing for your whole family.

It's hard to be consistent. Inconsistency also brings its own kind of hardship into your life. Making useful goals and resolutions has more to do with choosing the kind of hard you will endure and focusing on prioritizing things that will have the most impact. Small changes can make a big difference in your day-to-day living.

Do you really celebrate Christmas for twelve days straight? Isn't that exhausting and expensive? Join Steve and Kara as they talk about celebrating the season of Christmas and the traditions they have developed with their family over the years and how this season is a time of teaching as well as celebration.

Does your Christmas include celebrating the season of Advent? Including this season in your holiday preparations can build the anticipation for what Christmas is really about. It can be a time of preparation and a way to slow down the hurry of the season. Join Steve and Kara as they talk about how they have incorporated the season of Advent into their family traditions.

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Can you celebrate Christmas without Santa and the elves without being a bah humbug? How you do holidays is part of your family culture. Thinking outside the box with your Christmas celebration can be a blessing to your family and help create meaningful traditions for your children.

Sunday is the high point of our week. Having a restful Sunday requires some planning and preparation during the week. Kara talks about some things you can do to help diffuse the stress and hurry of Sunday and truly make it a restful day…even for Mom!