Any time parents of teenagers or pre-teens are in a room together, the subject of homework and education seems to be on their lips. My experience is that most of the time parents worry more about their teen’s schoolwork than the teen worries about their schoolwork! I’m can’t promise to improve your teen’s grade…
We want our kids to develop healthy habits, but if we’re honest, we probably aren’t the best when it comes to sticking with positive behaviors ourselves. So what’s a parent to do? Thankfully, there is a lot of research that can help when we fall short. One of the latest popular books on the topic,…
Kids who are considering the dark road of suicide will many times tip you off by giving signals and signs. The last two blog posts looked at the first two (emotional and physical) categories of signals and signs that we can be looking for. Today, we look at the third category known as behavioral cries. Teens……
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Teen suicide. . . the reality is sobering. It’s on the rise. And, we need to be aware. Certainly our response must be prophetic (instilling biblical hope and the reason for living in kids) and preventive (taking steps to build relationships with kids that build resiliency, for eexample). And sadly, we must also be redemptive….
Last week we hunkered down in the CPYU studio to record a rather difficult yet necessary upcoming episode of our Youth Culture Matters podcast. We interviewed our good friend Marv Penner, tapping into his years of expertise in youth crisis intervention to get some help with how to address the issues of teen suicide. ….
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*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on CNBC. Piggy banks might be on the endangered species list, yet your kids still need to learn about money. They’re handling a lot of it. Kids ages 4 to 14 received an average $454 in allowance over the course of 2017, in…
Splink 1: Excuses, Excuses Play the “Excuses Game” (a good game to play while riding in the car). The first person should give a command to be obeyed (put on your shoes, take the dog outside, take out the trash, do your homework, clean your room, etc.) Everyone else must think of an excuse why…
I saw myself on the screen the other night. I wasn’t on the jumbotron at the baseball game. I wasn’t starring in a home movie. No, I saw myself in a movie character. An unlikely one. And the irony is that it was the antagonist of a movie that I watched years ago. I have become the bad…