Author: Faye Burdick
Faye Burdick is an elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a retired editor. She edited The Roots of Youth Ministry series and God's Plan for Growing Up resources.
By Faye Burdick
This one-session youth study gives high school youth an overview of the holy Bible. The study is designed to help youth from all backgrounds further understand the sacred book and to hopefully inspire them to become lifelong learners of the Bible. Pr...
By Faye Burdick
What tools can youth use to better understand the Bible? This one- session youth study, "Bible Study Tools for Older Youth," introduces youth to some basic resources they can use when studying the Bible.
By Faye Burdick
How can parents help their teen develop a healthy self-esteem? When previously high achieving and happy kids begin receiving bad grades and don't care, issues of self-esteem are likely involved.This study defines self-esteem and shares new research a...
By Faye Burdick, W. Eugene March
The book of Genesis is the first in a collection of books we now call the Bible. It is also the first of five books called the Torah. This collection of books was compiled somewhere around four hundred years before the time of Jesus. It is a book abo...
By Faye Burdick
The bookstores are FULL of books about the exhausted parent, but most are directed toward the parents of newborns, young children, and children with special needs. But what about the parents of teens who suffer from fatigue, weariness, and loss of en...
By Faye Burdick
Guilt. Sadness. Regret. Blame. Transitioning to a lower income is stressful for individuals and families. For middle and upper-class families, the security and comfort that was once there has now disappeared. This study for parents of teens explore t...
By Faye Burdick
How do parents help their teens identify healthy and unhealthy types of relationships? As teens face more pressures from outside the home and choose their own friends, what do parents need to do to support their teen in making healthy decisions?This ...
By Faye Burdick
There's a famous quote, often attributed to Mark Twain, that accurately reflects the parent-child relationship: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one,...
By Faye Burdick
Teaching your children the Golden Rule to do for others what you would wish to have done to you is a common and positive practice for Christian parents. To children it means sharing, being gracious, and having compassion for others. But sometimes "do...
By Faye Burdick
The month of July is "Sandwich Generation Month," but not everyone in the middle feels like celebrating.The Pew Research Center reports that one of eight Americans ages forty to sixty is raising a child while caring for a parent. Over seven million a...
By Faye Burdick
In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart famously stated "I shall not today attempt further to define [obscene or pornographic content] . . . but I know it when I see it."Many parents today feel the same way. With the broadcast media full of sexual images and...
By Faye Burdick
What goes through a parent's mind and soul when a son or daughter dies? Author Faye Burdick's son died in early 2008. In this study she shares glimpses of her journey and what friends and loved ones did that was helpful and not so helpful. Suggestion...