Tag: Parenting Teens
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Teen Challenges
Does this description sound familiar: Teens are unstable emotionally. One minute they feel wonderfully happy. The next minute they feel like the world has come to an end again for the third time that day. Their lives are emotional roller coasters. Solid ground is hard to find. As the parent of three, relatively well-adjusted, teenagers,…
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Teenagers: Lacking a Hunger for Wisdom
No one likes to be corrected, but the wise person learns to appreciate correction that comes from a reliable source. Proverbs 13.18 tells us: He who ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored. This is a lesson all of us need to remind ourselves. But according to Paul…
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Teen Tendencies & Temptations
The teen years are both exciting and exasperating as young men and young women try to find themsleves and find their place in this world. When I think back to my own teen years I am regularly filled with a feeling wishing I could have a do-over, in every sense of that phrase. There are some aspects of my teen…
