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A new trend promoted on the social media platform TikTok has people taping their lips shut at bedtime — a practice that could be dangerous, an expert warns

Strict parenting can alter the way the body reads the DNA of children

Which now moves to the Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine for approval

If Michiganders Re-Elect Whitmer And Pass Prop 3, Kids Aren’t Safe From Sexualization At School. the Democrats’ efforts to use the schools to sexualize kids and peddle gender-bending ideologies

The Michigan Department of Education has adopted a radical gender theory program that promotes gender “fluidity” beginning in elementary school and encourages teachers to facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent

Democrat party is allowing men to play in women’s sports, and into women’s locker rooms, sexualizing your children, emptying prisons, opening the border, aborting black babies, closing schools, forced vaccinations, record inflation, and the worst economy since Jimmy Carter was president.

70% of the examined face masks contained TiO2 in quantities ranging from 100 to 2000 mg kg−12

Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage

There is no one-size-fits-all answer, but there are factors that it can be traced back to. Let’s take a look at five of them

Optimism about next generation’s ability to have a better life than parents drops

Anyone who works with Gen Z is facing a mental health crisis in this generation at levels they’ve never seen before

Creating a culture of belonging, welcoming teenagers as God has welcomed us in Christ

New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child’s psychology

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Walt Mueller

Walt Muller

Our teens desperately for need for the adults in their lives to be equipped to share Biblical truth and hope whenever the topic comes up

The goal, first and foremost, is to treat each individual as an image bearer of God, worthy of love. The second, is to guide that individual toward professional help and toward hope in Christ.

It’s not that religious people don’t have suicidal thoughts or take their own lives — after all, even ministers sometimes die by suicide, she said. Rather, a spiritual group may provide a valuable sense of belonging and support to those who are suffering from thoughts of self-harm

Flashback: Even Christian Kids Contemplate & Attempt Suicide

(As I’m doing research on teen suicide, I found the survey by Christian camp Falls Creek insightful and the Content/breakout session they did with the students. This is part of an article that we posted many years ago by Andy Harrison.)….(I decided to make a list information from previous articles…

US math scores among fourth- and eighth-grade students saw largest ever drop amid COVID-19 pandemic

A “Face the Nation” Republican, Democrat, independent agreed “woke culture” has become a concern for parents raising children in America

3 Things I Would Tell Myself as a Newer Youth Worker

“What’s being consumed in these concentrates is devastating for their mental health.”

Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA

Documentary on young women who went through medical gender transition, with cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and regret it

A gender-affirming doctor who works for Plume, an online telehealth service that offers gender-affirming hormone therapy through a cell phone app, believes that young gender-confused females can “try out” testosterone if they choose to do so.

Far-left counter-protesters MELT DOWN

…he once pledged to ‘do away with’. Again in April 2018, he said, “I’m opposed to that $75 million tax credit, that school voucher system.”

Tucker Carlson provides an update on the possibility the CDC will include the COVID-19 vaccine on the childhood immunization schedule on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight

A recent Harvard-Harris poll showed that 64% of voters find the rise in crime to be the fault of “woke politicians,” with less than a third of respondents saying the country is “on the right track.”

Young people are leaving the church because they feel they do not belong to Christianity, they do not believe the Christian faith, and they do not affirm the behaviors that Christianity encourages

In this episode of the Rooted Parent Podcast, Cameron and Anna visit with author Megan Hill about her recent book A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church

Even Jesus had to make it through the mess in the middle. After years of mentoring his disciples, they still didn’t seem to get it

Youth ministry is not dead. Youth ministry is not even dying. Contrary to how we all may feel while climbing out of a sweaty church van after a week-long mission trip

Dr. Stephen Levine, a clinical psychiatrist who founded an Ohio gender clinic in 1974, is concerned about hormones being used to treat distressed transgender children

Indeed, if anything, the report underplays the ghoulish revenue potential for these procedures, since it fails to mention the complications

by Jonathan McKee: 3 Ways to Help Our Kids Tap into Truth

Does Church Really Help My Kid?

3 Ways to Help Our Kids Tap into Truth

by Jonathan McKee

(Here’s a post that Jonathan sent me, I believe about two years ago that we never posted. My bad)

A few months ago Buzzworthy and TruthTheory each published articles claiming religious kids were less generous….

So, what do I mean by good communication between an adult leader and a young person?

A Storytelling App Beloved By Gen Z

Probably, nothing will change until enough mama bears sink their teeth and claws into these crooked pedophiles and grooming school administrators and school board members

As soft-on-crime LA District Attorney George Gascón — whose woke policies have been blamed for rising crime the city and surrounding areas — has faced mounting criticism over his progressive directives to reform prosecutions

US consumer prices rose by more than forecast to a 40-year high in September, pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates even more aggressively to stamp out persistent inflation

There could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men

This might lead to dependency on highly addictive drugs

9 Reasons Why Media Is At Fault.

According to Pinterest.

“Putting off marriage, going to college, entering the workforce, women are doing that at much higher rates than they used to,”

Go to church your first Sunday in college. The most influential, biblically founded advice for me in my freshman year of college

School choice advocates defeated union opposition that tried to stop law even after it was signed

Sharon Osbourne Agrees with Kanye West on BLM ‘Scam’ Wants Donation Back

Tim Keller is one of the greatest thinkers in our world today. I loved his thoughts on Why Does Anyone Become a Christian?

Serving Each Other and Falling in Love Again Every Day

..said the group could provide false documentation to hide children’s whereabouts while they participated in gay activities

When young people are adopted into the body of Christ and the local church family, youth ministry shifts from ministry FOR teenagers to ministry WITH teenagers

Cardiologist calls for the immediate suspension of all COVID shots as real-world data show they cause more harm than good

25% Of People Who Received Covid-19 Vaccination Missed Work Or Reported A “Serious Event” Affecting Their Normal Life Functions, According To CDC Data

The father has been instructed by the court to call his child by a new, chosen name, new preferred pronouns, and to refer to the child as being of the new, chosen gender. Golisano Children’s Hospital recommends puberty blockers.

Offers puberty blockers to kids, cross-sex hormones, guides for boys on “tucking”, and guides for girls on “chest binding.” They also promote their services in helping young children fully transition

Last the National School Boards Association’s letter to the DOJ asking them to investigate parents who were opposed to critical race theory

There’s how many mental health disorders that make you hate your body, and the solution isn’t to change your body, it’s to fix your brain.

Four former Connecticut high school female athletes are suing the state for its policy allowing transgender students to participate in women’s sports

Aimed at minors, incorrectly markets puberty-blocking drugs as safe substances that can be used “like a stop sign” to halt puberty

Pro-Trans Group Behind Virginia School Walkout Plans To ‘Rehome’ Gay Kids Who Hate Their Parents

If a child comes into the state by themselves, the bill states that “A court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and the child has been abandoned

The best research data we have is “The Binding Health Project”. This was an online survey of 1800 chest-binding females and was conducted in 2014

The “Equality Act.” It would “demolish existing civil rights and constitutional freedoms — and is a grave threat to parental rights” and “result in lifelong physical and emotional harm to countless children, who would be subject to even more dangerous drugs and surgeries,”

Despite Biden’s move to force America to accept transgenderism in school locker rooms, the states have been passing their own laws and sports and education rules putting limits on transgender students

Thousands were allowed to enter the U.S. without proper vetting and hundreds pose a national security risk

Josh Evans

“Isolated in a world full of connection.”

Here are four ways our ministry intentionally connects with parents

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Dogs should be groomed not kids! Transgender grooming in schools

Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’

This is a direct result of having an open border. The strategy was quickly devised  in response to seven student overdoses over a three weeks – at the Bernstein campus and Hollywood High School.

Even if inflation slows in coming months, Americans will have to spend thousands more in 2022.

Unveils the Marxist strategy of creating false racial tension between Americans, with its ultimate goal of obtaining power, destroying capitalism and replacing God with government

Nation’s top early childhood development organization tells educators to ‘use tenets of Critical Race Theory’ when working with babies

Man admits to killing teen after political dispute

The effects of social media and the evolution of parenting

The promise of Heaven reminds us that our suffering is not to last forever

The intelligence report warns agents the freed prisoners have been seen within migrant caravans traveling from Tapachula, Mexico toward the U.S.-Mexico border as recently as July

Some states are spending taxpayer dollars to push progressive left causes

Yes, Boston Children’s Hospital is doing ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries on kids

The proposed petition would prohibit minors from receiving sex-reassignment surgery and puberty-blocking hormone treatments, and would also require that older patients sign a consent form and wait 24 hours before starting such treatments

That would roll back some accommodations and tighten parental notification requirements

A Guide to Developing and Delivering Messages That Stick

Four Insights About Parents That Should Radically Impact Your Ministry

Close the border: She thought she was taking a painkiller but it was laced with fentanyl

Mostly out of love and good intentions, we parents offer support in ways that our teenagers experience as stress because our support can come with qualifiers

How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups

Seducing Our Daughters’ the impact transgenderism is having on girls

Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension is the inheritance given to Christians, and the Spirit is the guarantee of our place with Christ, connecting us to the promised glory to come

Get to know youth with the long game in mind

A parent is the number one spiritual influence in a child’s life, Rooted wants to equip and encourage parents as they seek to grow their child in knowledge and love of Jesus

What is the possible significance for the Anglican communion?

The ghastly fad of genital mutilation will end when the lawsuits begin