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Connecting With Your Emotional Teens

When you have an emotional teen, there are three things that your teen may need from you.

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Are You and Your Teen BFFs?

As their parent, you need to find the balance between being your child’s friend and being her parent.

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What Do Teens Really Want?

Learn what teens most value. It may surprise you!

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Peer Problems

Making friends. Losing friends. Choosing the wrong friends. Sometimes things go astray with your teen’s friendships.

Risk Takers

Helping teen boys determine the difference between a risk worth take and a bad-decision risk. 

When Your Teen is Rejected

You can provide guidance and support, motivated by kindness and love, when your teen feels the sting of rejection.

Dating Rejection

How one parent helped her teen through the dating years and a time of rejection.

Talk to Your Kids About Sex

It may be uncomfortable, but the stakes are high. And your teen needs to hear the truth. From you.

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Why Kids Need Healthy Fats

Even when you need to cut fat from your diet, you may want to increase healthy fats in your child’s diet. Learn why.

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Navigating Parent-Teen Negotiations of the Neither World

Here is one practical way parents can help teens who feel caught between the irresponsibility of childhood and the privileges of adulthood.

Encouraging Your Child’s Smarts

Learn about eight “smarts” that will help you recognize your children’s interests and abilities and help you strengthen them.

Watching Out for Your Teen

Find tangible ways to let your teens know how you pray for them.

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Sweet and Strong-Willed

Do you have a teen who wants to make his or her own path? Here’s how one family dealt with an unconventional child.

Why Your Child Needs Water

Dehydration can be a serious problem for children, especially when they don’t recognize that they need more liquids. 

Terrible Teens?

Are the teen years always terrible? Get some practical advice from an experienced parent who didn’t think so.

Do the Inconvenient

Sacrificing convenience — sometimes that’s how God uses parents to help draw others closer to Jesus.

How God Uses Young Children

Never underestimate how God can use the hard times with young children to minister to others.

Make Prayer Real

Helping little ones learn to pray may not be as hard as you think.

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Effective Family Communication

Do you feel like walls are being put up between you and your teen. Try these foundational ways to better connect and develop effective family communication.

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Choosing a College Major

How should your teen choose a college major? Use these six suggestions for guiding your child and in facilitating discussion.