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A mother of four shares how her family wrestled with a son's growing absorption in online gaming, and how honest conversations during their weekly Family Time led to workable house rules, a clearer understanding of internet addiction, and a renewed commitment to raising kids who master their screens rather than being mastered by them.
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From a daughter punished and publicly shamed for drying her rain-soaked clothes, to a son pressured by a bad crowd and later falsely accused of theft, the author shares how Family Time helped her stay alert to what her children were facing at school — walking with them through injustice and traps, and helping them come out the other side with forgiveness, resilience, and character.
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From the unintended hurt caused while pushing her two daughters through talent classes, to the freer, interest-led approach taken a decade later with her two sons, the author shares how Family Time helped all four children discover their gifts, build character, and shape their own dreams of a life spent helping others.
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Walking alongside her aging mother through her final years — from planning a family trip back to Taiwan, to weighing hospice care, to navigating misunderstandings around her Christian funeral — the author uses Family Time to help her four children reflect on life, death, faith, and family, turning the experience of caring for their grandmother into a life-education class for the whole family.
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Through their weekly Family Time, the author and her husband talk openly with their four children about dating, love, and marriage — sharing their own testimony of building a marriage across very different backgrounds — while naming three dangers common among today’s young couples: the phone “affair,” gaming addiction, and premarital cohabitation.
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Reflecting on growing up in a Christian family of nine siblings, the author shares how that faith heritage carried into her own marriage and the raising of her four children, and calls fellow Christian parents to commit to becoming their children's spiritual mentors.
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Drawing on twenty years of weekly Family Time, the author shares how her family learned to serve together as a team — hosting a struggling family for a meal, volunteering side by side at church, sending the boys off as neighborhood babysitters, and even moving the whole family back to Taiwan to care for an aging grandmother — discovering along the way how one family, and one life, can bless another.
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Raising four children spanning nearly two decades in age, the author shares how weekly 'Family Time' turned potential flashpoints — mealtimes, screen time, allowance, chores — into open conversations where the whole family worked out rules everyone could actually agree to keep.
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When the family decided to uproot and drive across the U.S. so Mom could pursue seminary training, a cross-country road trip turned into an unforgettable adventure — full of scares, laughter, and a whole family learning to lean on God and on each other.
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The author recounts how her family prayed — and even voted — during Family Time over whether to have a third and then a fourth child, and how each child’s name and signature hymn came to be woven together by the Chinese character for "heart," bearing witness to the grace and joy of raising a large family.
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Having grown up as the sixth of nine siblings and now raising four children of her own, the author shares how her family’s twenty-year practice of weekly Family Time became the heartbeat of their communication, prayer, and conflict resolution, and distills it into five practical keys for making it work in any home.
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The author describes how her family’s Christmas begins weeks earlier with Advent, observed together during weekly Family Time, and recalls the year the whole family traded a tree and ornaments for Salvation Army uniforms, ringing kettle bells together in Los Angeles for a Christmas that turned out even more meaningful.
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