Pushing Back on Teen Drug Abuse
The CDC reports that drug overdose deaths in the United States were four times more common in 2018 than they were just twenty years earlier. The CDC also reports that drug overdose deaths increased by thirty percent during the pandemic.…
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Your Kids and Relationships
Parents, today I want to encourage you to conduct a two-pronged relationship check. First, take time to take stock of your family relationships and closeness. Kids who are engaged with their families and who know they are loved are less…
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Kids and Sinful Choices
One shift that’s taken place in youth culture over the years is the way that kids live out their friendships with their peers. In year’s past, kids were more prone to intervene and warn their friends if they saw their…
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Identity and the Peer Group
In her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain, Sarah Jayne Blakemore reminds us that for teenagers, what she calls the social self becomes central. A teen’s social self is all about expressing who you and how…
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Wisdom for Young and Old Alike
When theologian Carl Trueman was recently asked “What are you learning about life and following Jesus?”, he answered “Life is short. Now in my mid-50s I am increasingly conscious that time is limited and that as a Christian I need…
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