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Half of today's teens have tried alcohol by the time they are in eighth grade. This statistic becomes all the more troubling when you consider that adolescence is a time of poor impulse control, a time of independence-seeking and experimentation. Add...

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Should Christians have tattoos? What about piercings? Body art--permanent ■reminders of a temporary fad?

Body Art and Teens

By Sue Washburn

In this timely study for parents of teens we'll explore our responsibilities as Christian parents when it comes to forming an educated opinion about tattoos and piercings.Researchers estimate that a quarter of the population between the ages of eight...

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None of us want our child to be bullied or to be the bully. This study for parents of ■teens provides advice for both situations.

Bullying
Sticks, Stones, E-mails, and Texts

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Far from being the source of comedy as it is often portrayed in film or books, bullying is a serious public health problem with the potential to shape the life of a child for good or for ill. No young person should have to endure being bullied. Nor s...

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Can God's unconditional love help your teen overcome feelings of self-loathing? ■How can you encourage a healthy body image for your children?

Eating Disorders in Teens

By Sue Washburn

Up to ten million Americans are diagnosed with eating disorders each year. While as many as one million of them are male, the most common sufferers are girls who appear to be well-adjusted with good grades, sports participation, and busy social lives...

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Exploring and Discussing Your Teen's Music

By Sue Washburn

Most teens feel very connected to the music they listen to, and it is important for parents to understand this connection and how music influences their teens' lives. This study for parents of teens helps parents understand how music impacts their te...

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As Christian parents we don't want to think that teenagers are cheating in school, ■but they are. This study helps parents recognize the signs that their children might ■be cheating and provides tools for talking with their teen about cheating.

Is Your Kid a Cheat?

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Has your teen been caught cheating at school or do you suspect this may be happening? What's changed for our youth since we parents were in school? How have methods changed for cheating and for catching cheating in school? What should Christian paren...

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A little white lie never hurt anyone, but thirty might! This study provides parenting ■advice for teaching parents how to be truthful and gives tools to parents for ■raising truthful teenagers.

Lies, Alibis, and Fibs

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Is lying always wrong? Does your child lie? Do you? This study looks at things we all should consider when we consider lying to others.One study reported that 81.2 percent of high school students have lied to a parent in the last year about something...

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Reflections for Christian parents on modeling your commitment to social justice for ■your teenager.

Modeling Love for the "Least of These"

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...

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When a child decides to come out to his or her family, many questions arise. ■What do I tell my friends, or grandma and grandpa, younger siblings? Will my child ■be safe, can I change his mind, and how will my spouse react? This study ■provides answers and advice for parents or friends of parents whose children ■have come out.

Mom, I'm Gay

By Donna Sinclair

What is a helpful response to a child who risks rejection by confiding in you that he is gay? How do you deal with your first reactions? What will you tell family and friends? What has changed and what has not?This study is for parents and friends of...

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Teens and technology: What's the fascination? And how do I help my child learn ■responsibility in using these wonderful and frightening technological tools?

Parenting in a Text Messaging World

By Leslie Scanlon

Today's teens are bombarded with technological gadgets that were not around when their parents were teens. How does one parent in unknown territory?Some adults prefer to not use social networking sites or text message on cell phones. But for many tee...

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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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Some say that true love waits, but even with lines like these it's still difficult to talk ■with teens about sex. This study provides Christian parents with advice from the ■Bible and from physicians and sociologists.

Purity Codes and Teen Sexuality

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Have you heard about purity balls and purity pledges? How about high schools and colleges across the country transforming Valentine's Day activities into Annual Day of Purity activities?What exactly is purity, and more specifically, are these activit...

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Gee, it must have been so easy raising Christian children in biblical times! No TV, ■no internet, so sexting, no constant barrage of sexual imagery to tempt and ■confuse our kids--NOT! Since the dawn of man, teens and tweens have found ■ways to satisfy their curiosity about sexuality but some ways are healthier than ■others.

Talking to Your Kids about Porn

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...

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Fingernails on a chalkboard . . . dental work . . . and talking to our kids about ■sex: most parents would put them all in the same category! This study will give ■parents practice at responding to the kinds of questions that children raise about ■sexuality and, where appropriate, to put their responses in a theological context. ■It includes helpful answers to some of the most common questions to help get the ■conversation started and reviews some very basic information and vocabulary ■related to sexuality, growth and development, reproduction, and relationships.

Talking with Your Child about Sex

By James H. Ritchie, Jr.

For many people, discussing matters of sexuality with children is one of those painful, periodic duties parents must assume. Despite being berated by images of sexually explicit advertising and content in television shows and movies, sexuality is a s...

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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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