*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on USA Today. As teen depression in the United States has risen in the past decade, most boys and girls are seeing mental health as a major problem, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. In a survey of nearly 1,000 teens ages 13…
When caregiving doesn’t spark your joy, what can you do about it? That’s a question I’ve been mulling over lately. Ever since I posted a survey about stress and compassion fatigue in caregivers at my website. Within 2 days, the survey had been completed 500 times. Less than 3 weeks later, that number has risen to…
Trending Today on Twitter – 2/22/19 1. #NationalMargaritaDay 2. Steve Irwin 3. #FridayFeeling 4. #FridayMotivation 5. #FridayThoughts 6. #powertrip 7. Navy Federal 8. Offset 9. Ken Starr 10. Kraft Heinz Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 2/22/19 1. Warriors 2. Lonzo Ball 3. Embolism 4. Natti Natasha 5. CrossFit Open 6. Jussie Smollett 7….
Youth workers and parents. . . Do you know what the questions are that your students are asking? And, if you know the questions, are you equipped to guide them into understanding biblically-based answers to those questions? Two of the most pressing questions kids are asking from birth up until adulthood are these. . ….
Daily Discipline Watch an athletic event (or musical event) together (something that requires practice and more practice). Ask your kids: What does it take for someone to be able to compete on a team (in an orchestra)? How many hours a day do you think they practice? In order to do something really well, a…
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to write a blog post. Every time I sat down to write, I couldn’t. I had no new ideas. Nothing new to share with you. I called it writer’s block. But really, it’s not that I couldn’t write. It’s that I felt like my voice didn’t really…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on HealthDay. When it comes to analyzing the effects of watching reality TV, well, it’s complicated. While some see these shows as a brief escape from daily life, they can have negative effects on some viewers, including impressionable teens. Researchers asked 1,100 girls aged 11 to…
Trending Today on Twitter – 2/15/19 1. #FakeTrumpEmergency 2. #FridayMotivation 3. Bill Weld 4. #FridayThoughts 5. #ImNoHeroBut 6. #PleaseMe 7. Brian Poole 8. Alan Dershowitz 9. Rose Garden 10. Kazee Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 2/15/19 1. Brittany Furlan 2. Pulwama attack 3. Jussie Smollett 4. Olive Garden 5. Papa John’s 6. 25th…
Accountable to Authority Visit the public library and get each child a library card (if they don’t already have one). Allow each child to pick out and take home some books. (One book for each year of their age is a good way to keep up with how many books they checked out.) Explain the…
Here in the Midwest winter has finally come upon us, as I stare out of my window and look at the snow-blanketed ground that has now essentially frozen over with the drop into single digit temperatures. This makes the several months following the Christmas season especially difficult, save for a few holidays that add a…