Tag Archive for adolescence
Close-Knit Family, Community Key To...
Teenagers who are part of close-knit neighborhoods and families are less likely to have sex at a young age
A Parent’s Watchful Eye Keeps Kids...
The fear of being caught reduced substance use by about 40% among a group of 11- to 15-year-olds
Book About Teens: The Breakthrough Years
A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens
Five Things Teens Wish You Knew About...
We must reframe the way we view the teenage years
Catechizing Our Kids…A Spiritual...
The marks and characteristics of effective Christian nurture
Parenting: Who’s In Charge?
Gentle, non-judgmental parenting is not good parenting. Have you read Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6?
Parents Keep Talking To Your Kids About...
Teenagers are less likely to drink, smoke or use drugs when parents keep tabs on their activities, according to findings published in…
Delta-8, an unregulated form of THC
Is popular among high school students
Having Faith Conversations With Your...
When families have healthy faith conversations in the home, the kids stay engaged in their faith when they get older.
Is It Time To Pass The Kids Online...
Social media presents a “profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.”
How To Get Teens To Listen To Your...
Teens will appreciate parents’ unsolicited advice, but only if the parent is supportive of their teens’ autonomy
Book: Faith Beyond Youth Group
5 Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship
Book: Church Doesn’t End With Z
Why Gen Z is Leaving the Church and How to Reach Them
Detrans Documentary: Dangers Of Gender...
DETRANS Doc: serves as a wake-up call to all of us: our children are in danger and it’s up to us to…
You Don’t Have to Give Your Child a...
Who is most responsible for the mental health crisis among American teenagers stemming from their use of smartphones and social media platforms?
Study: Contributing Factors In Helping...
Positive Relationships W/ Parents, Adults During Childhood Helps Better Mental Health
Why Young Men Are Failing To Launch
“For Gen Z men who feel purposeless and lost, the way off the couch is the way of the Cross.”
Zuck… Failure To Address The Harm...
Thirty-seven percent of teenage girls between 13 and 15 were exposed to unwanted nudity in a week on Instagram
Study: Death By Selfie Young Females...
Selfie-related deaths are…a silly youthful mistake. An unhealthy extension of our celebrity culture and social media pressures
Book: The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Way Forward For An Anxious Generation
Haidt and Moore discuss the alarming rates of anxiety and depression among children and adolescents
Teens Start Thinking Like An Adult...
Executive function is a set of mental skills that include the ability to plan, switch between tasks, resist tempting distractions, and focus
The Collapse Of Tavistock’s Gender...
Book…Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture...
….and What We Can Do About It. To have intrinsic self-worth not contingent upon external achievements
Teens Open Up About The Impact Of Social...
Social media can have negative, sometimes dire, impacts on teens’ physical and mental health
Target CEO Is Lying About Targeting Kids...
He says that they didn’t target children with transgender ideology products, and he says that they didn’t work with the devil worshiper
The Next Gen Is Leaving The Faith...
Children born in the 1980s and ’90s never absorbed the faith in their home. And they walked away from it at an…
Planned Parenthood Preying Upon Confused...
Planned Parenthood Turns Its Attention to Confused Adolescents Who Think They’re Trans
Social Misfit or Normal? Students Who Do...
A new study examined whether 10th graders in the Low dating group differed on emotional, interpersonal, and adaptive skills from youth in…
The Holy Sexuality Project Throwing Your...
The Holy Sexuality Project definitely has resources I will be using with our family ministry. I am hoping we can highlight their 12-lesson…
The Holy Sexuality Project Throwing Your...
The Holy Sexuality Project definitely has resources I will be using with our family ministry. I am hoping we can highlight their 12-lesson…
Reviving Evangelism In The Next...
Provides you with practical tips for fostering a passion for evangelism in the young people you lead
Videos: The Holy Sexuality Project
36 videos exploring topics like identity, temptations, desires, singleness, marriage, gender, and more!
Teaching Biblical Sexuality Points...
Do not fear. The Holy Spirit is at work, and he will give you the words you need. Have boldness and confidence that,…
Anxiety: Finding The Better Story
A 31-day Devotional for Teenagers by Liz Edrington
Teen Brains With Depression Linked To...
Depressed adolescents also recalled more negative than positive feedback words, thus suggesting that parental criticism more strongly affected these individuals than healthy…
California’s Pro-Trans Child Custody...
Under the proposed law, parents, who fail to acknowledge and support their child’s gender transition, could face potential consequences, including the loss…
Book: “Live Your Truth” And Other...
Apologist exposes modern day proverbs that trip up Christians and lure them from true biblical wisdom
(Book) Anxiety: Finding The Better Story
by Liz Edrington, is a 31-Day Devotional for Teenagers.
Anxiety And Teens: A31 Day Devotional
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from our latest book, Anxiety: Finding the Better Story, written by Liz Edrington
Why Teens Are Leaving The Church?
…what is revealed when they transition into adulthood is that they’ve only ever been veneered in biblical Christianity.
How To Deal With Teenagers Stress And...
How Philippians 4 Equips Teenagers to Deal with Stress and Anxiety
UK: Transgender In A Changing Culture
A brief biblical and pastoral introduction to understanding transgender in a changing culture
Helping Those Experiencing Gender...
Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast
10 Q’s Every Teen Should Ask &...
Whether you consider yourself a Christ follower or not, these questions can seem like deal breakers
Young People, Church Membership Isn’t...
Find a local healthy local church, overlook its flaws, work against your own selfishness and resistance, and become a contributing member. The…
When Children Come Out: A Guide For...
By: Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets
Resources For Navigating LGBTQ Issues...
Parent & Pastor resource guide on transgender issues
Knowing Parental Rights & Against...
We are an organization fighting for parental rights and against schools radicalizing and sexualizing children
The ‘Gender Affirmative Model’ or ...
The current evidence base shows that around 80% of pre-pubertal children will outgrow their gender dysphoria during adolescence
Youth Ministry: Nurturing Adolescent...
A youth ministry that fails to balance the proclamation of proper belief with a call to pursue and live out the resulting…
10 Ways Social Media Affects Teens’...
For you busy parents, caregivers and educators out there, we’ve distilled it down to 10 useful takeaways
Record One In FOUR HS Students Say They...
These students are more likely to attempt suicide and be victims of abuse
Study: Teens And Social Media
Pew Research Center asking teens – and their parents – about their experiences with and views toward social media
Parent Resource Guide To Transgender...
Educating and equipping parents on how to respond
Book: Back-Pocket God. Study On The...
Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Emerging Adults
The Five Essential Soft Skills Your...
Today’s blog is an excerpt from the upcoming book, “Ready for Real Life.”
Book: Ready For Real Life
Unpacking the Five Essential Soft Skills Great Leaders Instill in Their Students
Gen Z and Millennials’ Top 10 Favorite...
YPulse’s Media Consumption report shows 65% of Gen Z and Millennials say they’ve watched a TV series in the last week—making it…
Protect Teens From Sextortion
We can’t warn our children against every scam and trap in the world. So how can we teach them to be wise…
Exposing The Gender Lie’ e-book...
The number of minors in America receiving a diagnosis of gender dysphoria tripled from 2017 to 2021, with more than forty-two thousand…
Kids Hospitalized In Mental Health...
Outpatient help for kids with mental health issues is hard to come by in much of the U.S. As a result, hospitalizations are…
Study: Social Contagion For Surge In...
Adolescent-onset gender dysphoria disproportionately affects females.
Pharma Paying TikTok Influencers 2Hook...
“Pharmaceutical marketers have noticed the power of patient persuasion and begun to leverage ‘patient influencers’ in brand campaigns,”
Why Chinese Apps Are the Favorites of...
It isn’t just the algorithms, but lessons from a competitive culture
MN ‘Trans Refuge’ Bill To...
Minnesota ‘trans refuge’ bill will threaten to take children away from parents who don’t consent to transitioning their kid
‘State-Sanctioned Kidnapping’...
California bill would give therapists power to take children over 12 from parents ‘without accusation, evidence, or trial’
TikTok Admits Chinese App Tracks...
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew admitted to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks that the Chinese app tracks users’ keystrokes during a House Committee on…
TikTok Threatens America’s Social...
Almost 70% of American teenagers use TikTok. Though the content teenagers scroll through masquerades as harmless short videos, many of the videos…
The Wolf In Their Pockets
13 ways the social internet is shaping the people you lead, with advice to help everyone deal with it!
Tempted To Control Your Children’s...
But one day, you might face a chasm. And only the Holy Spirit can carry them across
Belonging: The Effects Of Purposefulness...
A Sense Of Purpose May Have Significant Impact On Teens’
New Plan To Save The Children From...
Trump: the “gender confusion” pushed on our nation’s youth is a form of child abuse
Liberal Parents Mad, Schools R Hiding...
liberal parents feel Outraged when schools hide their minor children’s gender “transitions” from them until it is too late to intervene
Chloe Cole Reveals How Her Family Was...
“People often talk about how the children in these situations are vulnerable, but it’s the families as a whole that are vulnerable,”
73% Of Teenagers Have Consumed...
The average age of first consuming porn is age 12
Flashback: Teacher Unions To Curtail...
Biden Education Department to Curtail Trump-Era Effort to Track Teacher Sex Crimes
Teachers Unions Held Children’s...
Teachers unions held children’s education hostage to secure multiple multi-billion-dollar ransom payments from taxpayers
Flashback Book: The Coddling of the...
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Luddite Teens Swear Off Cell Phones…
A high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology
Biden:Transgender Surgeries For Kids Are...
Biden has previously described Republicans as “immoral” for passing laws to block transgender procedures for children
Children On Trans Hormones ‘Probably...
American Academy of Pediatrics executive admits children on trans hormones ‘probably will be infertile
Yellen: There Is Real National Security...
Well, it’s that private information could potentially end up in Chinese hands and used in ways that would negatively impact Americans
Indiana Sues TikTok over Child Safety,...
The app misleads children in particular about the level of inappropriate content and the security of consumer information
As Alcohol Abuse Declines Among Teens,...
Marijuana abuse among 6- to 18-year-olds has increased 245% since 2000, while child alcohol abuse has steadily declined over those years
1 in 10 Teens Have Sexted, Many See Porn...
School counselors must be prepared to talk about sexting and pornography use with students, and to change the narrative about these behaviors
Pandemic Stress Physically Aged Teens’...
Making their brain structures appear several years older than the brains of comparable peers before the pandemic
Vaping Can Ruin Your Smile, Speed Up...
After inhaling, the sticky and sugary content of the vaping liquid sticks to the teeth — causing all the damage
Dept. Of Health & Human Services...
She was pimping me and I didn’t like that. She would pimp me to men
A Reflection on Barna’s Open...
The Barna Group conducted a global survey that included over 24,000 teenagers from 26 different countries
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