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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...

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College applications can be stressful. How can you help your teen apply to ■college?

Dealing with College Application Stress

By Sue Washburn

The parable of the Prodigal Son articulates the fears of many parents-their teen will come of age, go off into the world, make poor decisions, and return home broke and despondent. Luckily, in the present time we have an interim period for people in ...

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How can Christian parents help guide their teens through constant inentity ■struggles. Who will your teen be when they grow up?

Helping Teens Find Their Identity

By Sue Washburn

Parents can play an extremely helpful role in their teens' lives when they inspire, guide, and protect them as they explore the positive and negative possibilities for their lives. This study explores ways you can help your teen form a positive ident...

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Our role as parents is to support our teenagers as they face daily pressures. This ■study looks at the story of Daniel in the Bible along with other information to help ■parents of teens.

Helping Your Teen Deal With Daily Pressure

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Does your teen exhibit signs of stress? Where is this coming from? What's changed for teens today? How can parents help?This study examines some of the unique pressures on teenagers today and how to identify the stress and deal with it. It is unlikel...

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Helping Your Teen Grieve

By Martha Bettis-Gee

We tend to associate grief primarily with major life traumas such as a death in the family, a divorce, or an illness. But grief may also emerge in response to changes that we might view as largely positive. Moving away from a place you have lived for...

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How can a Christian parent help a teen with negative body image? What's the ■difference between what marketing aimed at teens and the what Bible says about ■the value of outward appearance?

Promoting Positive Body Image

By Sue Washburn

From movie stars being criticized for not being dramatically underweight, to male models becoming shirtless "collectibles" on bags from teen clothing stores, our teens are inundated daily with messages that tie their self-worth to a certain standard ...

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As Christian parents, we want our children to follow in the compassionate ■footsteps of Jesus. This study offers parenting advice for raising teenagers with a ■sense of empathy.

Teaching Empathy

By Martha Bettis-Gee

How does one learn to be compassionate? Is this an inborn trait, or do we need to actually learn it? Apparently the latter is the case for most of us.Anyone who works with adolescents can find oneself bothered, at times, by many youths' apparent indi...

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Teenage girls and teenage boys are engaging in self-harming behaviors like ■cutting, burning, and the like. In this guide for Christian parents of teens, we look ■at this phenomenon.

Teens and Cutting

By Sue Washburn

"Cutting" is becoming more widely recognized as a type of self-harm among teens, and it is important for parents and others to understand this practice and how to recognize it. In this study parents will learn why teens cut themselves, the influence ...

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Teens and Dating
What Parents Need to Know

By Cathy Caldwell Hoop

Would you want to go through those turbulent, wonderful, awful, teenage dating years again? As many survive those years and then have children of their own, they again face many of the same issues with their own children. In addition, many others bes...

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Raising teenagers can be scary, especially if you're not sure if their moodiness is ■because they have a developing teenage brain or because they truly are ■depressed. This study for parents provides ideas for how to talk to their teens ■about depression and when to get help.

Understanding Teenage Depression

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Chronic depression is not something one can "snap out of" nor does it signify a crisis of faith. Major depression is an illness and affects every aspect of a person's life.What are signs that your teen may be depressed? What treatments are available ...

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Raising teens is a complicated process and you can feel like you have to learn a ■new language to be successful. This study offers information and advice for ■parents of teens such as letting teens practice a good argument and knowing ■when to stop listening.

What's Happening to My Child?
Adolescent Biology

By Sue Washburn

Is this teenager the same child I used to know? What is happening inside that body and mind that makes them act the way they do? How can I be helpful as they change? This study explains some of the physical and emotional changes teens experience and ...

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