Parental Patience
How easy it would be if adolescence were an overnight phenomena. But the process of moving from childhood to adulthood takes time. In today’s world, the assumption that the adolescent years cease and a teen becomes an adult at the…
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Teachers on Kids and Screen Time
A Reddit user recently threw out this question to school teachers: “What screams ‘I have unlimited screen time’ in students?” Their answers give insights and warnings parents should hear and heed regarding digital addiction, distraction, attention deficit trait, relational breakdown,…
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Episode 192: “Parental Stress” a Youth Worker Roundtable
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.RSS FEED – click here.Access from Apple Podcasts. EPISODE SPONSOR: This episode of Youth Culture Matters is brought to you in part by Judson College. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful…
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What to do with our Sinful Kids
All teenagers face great temptation. All teenagers make sinful choices that are at times devastating to themselves and to others. It’s who we are as broken human beings. But here’s some great advice for parents: The most important factor in…
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Modeling the Faith
The office of the United States Surgeon General recently released a report entitled, “Parents Under Pressure: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents.” In his introduction to the report, Surgeon General Murthy writes these…
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Is Life Getting Harder?
When you were growing up, how many times did you hear your parents begin a sentence with these words: “When I was your age. . .” What usually followed was some kind of revelation comparing the relative ease of teenage…
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Parents and Stress 5
All this week we’ve been looking at some strategies for reducing the stress you may be feeling as a parent. This comes in response to the recent Surgeon General’s advisory on Parents Under Pressure, and the fact that forty-one percent…
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Parents and Stress 4
All this week we’re looking at some strategies for reducing the stress you may be feeling as a parent. This comes in response to the recent Surgeon General’s advisory on Parents Under Pressure, and the fact that forty-one percent of…
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