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Improve your parenting
Parenting is a topic of much research in the field of child care. It applies not only to natural mothers and fathers but to single parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, and others who do substitute caring. In each instance the vital element is love. An important observation emerging from this research is that the loving quality of the care counts more than its quantity.
Shortly after becoming a mother I learned this difference between quantity and quality. Our little daughter had a skin condition that persisted in spite of a great deal of prayer. One day her Sunday School teacher said to me, "I feel your daughter needs more love." I think any mother could picture my reaction—I was hurt and a bit furious too! I felt I had been so loving and patient. But I have always been grateful that God gave me not only the healing message I needed but also the humility to be receptive to it.

November 26, 1979 issue
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The healing action of truth-knowing
KENNY L. BAKER
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A pastor to meet all needs
ZOE W. FISCHER
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Reader's prayer
REITA H. NAYLOR
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A reason for confidence
EDWARD C. WILLIAMS
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Improve your parenting
VALERIE B. FREELAND
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No Achilles' heel
CLAIRE ROSELIUS
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Defining our goals
WILLIAM WALTON SAUNDERS
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Going forward
JEAN ADRIENNE HOWCROFT
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What it means to love God
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Consistent good health
NAOMI PRICE
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Safe in God
Lesley Clyne
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As we look at the directions our lives have taken...
HILDA M. NICHOLAS
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Some years ago, I was healed of a painful condition in my side
CAROLYN T. FLOURNOY
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When I was a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School,...
CHRISTINE H. SHANNON
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In times of crisis, God has been to me "a very present help in...
LINDA TABBERT WAGGONER