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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...

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Helping our teens choose healthy relationships calls for our child to know what ■fuels the relationship. This study helps parents prepare their children for situations ■when an instant response is needed.

Helping Your Teen Choose Healthy Friendships

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 ...

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Raising teens involves facing physical, emotional, and spiritual changes. This ■study for Christian parents of teens helps parents talk to their teen about the ■church and spirituality.

Helping Your Teen Connect to Their Church Community

By Sue Washburn

What does it mean when a teen loses interest in attending church? What should a parent do? Has our teen abandoned God? Have we failed?Many teens grew up going to church with family. It wasn't a choice and they went. Many enjoyed their church communit...

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How do you convince your child that while your love for your spouse may have ■died, your love for your child never will? What is the Christian response to ■parenting after a divorce? How can our Christian values guide us in our effort to ■redefine family?

Parenting during Divorce

By Sue Washburn

While there is no way to make a divorce easy on a child, there are good and bad ways of handling the situation. In this study, we'll explore some of the more challenging aspects of severing a marriage when children are involved.Legally divorcing a sp...

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Parenting Teen Girls

By Sue Washburn

Teen girls are under enormous pressure to succeed, and dealing with this pressure can often lead to self-destructive behavior. This study reflects on the challenges facing teen girls (and their parents) and explores how we as parents can support our ...

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The Bible presents many cases of multi-generational family living arrangements ■that benefited each generation in different ways. But in our contemporary world, ■Christian families face many challenges when sandwiched between their parents ■and their children.

The Sandwich Generation

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...

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Looking at prayer, Sabbath keeping, and lectio divina, this study provides ■parenting advice for raising spiritually aware teens.

Spiritual Disciplines for Teens

By Sue Washburn

How do you nourish the spiritual life of your family in the home? Is the thought intimidating? Is this something you prefer to just leave for church?Most teens are very interested in spirituality as is seen by the interest in vampire movies and other...

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As Christians, we can look to the Bible's Ten Commandments for basic rules on ■how to conduct ourselves. But for tweens and teenagers, manners and etiquette ■are far too often ignored; knowing the rules of basic, polite interaction with others ■is vital to strong relationships.

What Manners Are You Teaching Your Kids?

By Sue Washburn

For many teens, the concept of manners or etiquette may seem horribly formal and outdated. But in fact, basic guidelines for social interaction represent more than just another set of rules teens must follow; they are tools that teens can use to form...

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