Tag Archive for Parenting
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…
TikTok Pushes Suicide Videos On 13-Year...
The Chinese app’s recommendation algorithm is so advanced that within ten minutes, it will start pushing suicide videos if the young TikTok…
Book: Transgender
It surveys the Christian worldview and seeks to apply these principles to the many complex questions surrounding gender identity
Book: Teaching Your Children About...
Helping Kids Navigate a Confusing Culture
Public School Enrollment Decreased By 1...
…Within the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Homeschool enrollment rose 30%
Dad Discovers His Daughter’s A...
Refuses to make her car payments any longer: ‘It’s my money’
Remote Work Encourages Marriage, Family...
Remote work may boost marriage rates and encourage women who are already parents to have more children
Mom Removes Teenager’s Door
Mom removes teenager’s door after girl won’t stop slamming it
Dad Dresses As Julius Caesar To Protest...
Michael Guglielmo accused the Concord School District of ‘facilitating gender confusion’
The Wolf In Their Pockets
13 ways the social internet is shaping the people you lead, with advice to help everyone deal with it!
A Darker Consumerism
Our relationship with social media has made us consumers of people.
Academic ‘Success’ Is Not The Point
As Christian parents, we view our kids’ schooling in light of eternity
50 Famous Parental Sayings
Fun video where comedian Andy Andrews shares 50 Things Parents Say in just 60 seconds
When Your Son Is An Addict
Loving someone in addiction feels like fighting a long defeat
“No More Secrets”: Protect Kids...
Woman behind Libs of TikTok writes children’s book that ‘will give parents and children a tool they can use to spot predatory…
WH: Federal Agencies To Ban TikTok From...
Over communist spying concerns
Ash Wednesday “What Was That On Your...
Why? Because God will give us new bodies, resurrected bodies, glorious bodies, not made of the earth or dust, but of heaven
The Temptation To Control Our Children
Serving the Lord’s Portion to our Teens
Tempted To Control Your Children’s...
But one day, you might face a chasm. And only the Holy Spirit can carry them across
DVD: A Biblical Response To Critical...
When Galatian believers tried to add to the gospel, the apostle Paul sternly reminded them that the gospel is complete. Today, Christians…
Belonging: The Effects Of Purposefulness...
A Sense Of Purpose May Have Significant Impact On Teens’
Saving Trans Kids?
What’s happening to children is morally and medically appallin
Recovering Proverbs 22:6 For A New...
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it
New Study Of Teenagers And Pornography
Three Things Youth Ministers Need to Know
Seeking Validation
Nothing is wrong with posting our updates and accomplishments on social media, but we must remember that true worth from our work…
Surgeon General: 13-Yr-Olds Too Young...
Murthy told CNN on Sunday that he believes being on social media “does a disservice” to kids early in their teen years
New Plan To Save The Children From...
Trump: the “gender confusion” pushed on our nation’s youth is a form of child abuse
Parents Rank Youth Mental Health as Top...
An analysis of 3,757 U.S. parents with children under the age of 18 found that roughly 40 percent say they are “extremely…
Parents Low View on Kids Having Similar...
Roughly a third (35%) of U.S. parents say it is extremely or very important to them that their children have similar religious…
They have very little tolerance for...
“Today’s 18-year-olds are like the 12-year-olds from a decade ago.”
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
13-Year-Old Girl Leads Police On 100 MPH...
Inside the car, they also discovered a gun and some marijuana.
FB/Instagram: To Allow Bare Breasts For...
Policy can be limiting to transgender-identified individuals, board claims
Stop Overindulging Your Children
One of the biggest problems with today’s young adults is a “failure to launch.”
Parenting Tips To Be A More Effective...
Don’t miss this parenting video by Alexandra Motz. It’s really good. Alexandra is a part of HomeWord’s Pass it On training program
73% Of Teenagers Have Consumed...
The average age of first consuming porn is age 12
Explaining Our New Prayerbook
It follows the Calendar Year, and has longer readings that take you through the Old Testament in (almost) its entirety each year,…
Hundreds of Chicago Teachers Raped,...
Biden administration attempted to end the reporting requirements for teachers. If so we would have 16 allegations with criminal charges, not the…
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
What If This Was Your Last Christmas?
Wow! This is a powerful blog by Brandon Janous and our friends at Parent Cue. This blog made me want to lean…
The Nativity Story (As Imagined By...
I love this rendition the Nativity Story. It was filmed in Kenya and imagined by children with some of their cultural traditions….
Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes And...
Because children are vulnerable, they need to be protected. After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has…
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
White House Invites Drag Queen Promoting...
More disturbing information is surfacing regarding the police-hating drag queen, Marti Gould Cummins, whom Joe Biden invited to the White House
Biden:Transgender Surgeries For Kids Are...
Biden has previously described Republicans as “immoral” for passing laws to block transgender procedures for children
50 Shell-Shocked Teachers, Staff Flee...
Violent and disrespectful classroom behavior has led to a staggering 50 teachers and bus drivers to quit a Florida school district in…
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
Drag Queen Story Hour Redeemed
Two Fed-Up Pastors Have Brilliant Solution to Drag Queen Story Hour: ‘Push Back on Evil’
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
A Boarding School Ban On Smartphones For...
“We found our students had disengaged more and more from real life as their phones became their world,”
TikTok Promotes Toxic Diet Culture Among...
Prior projects have found a connection between adolescent social media use and disordered eating or negative body image
Long Distance Grandparenting
Words cannot adequately express the joy grandkids bring us and the sadness we so often feel when they live far away from
Grandparenting Through the Tough Times
Loving our children’s children can also bring heartache or pain. Larry Fowler puts it so well in his book Overcoming
Can Christians Date Nonbelievers?
To some degree, Christians date and marry nonbelievers because of a lack of imagination
Prayers For A Teenager Struggling With...
Father, I know that I’ve spent much more time this week fearing for my child rather than depending on you. Forgive me…
For The Burdened Parent Of College- Aged...
So when you are tempted to beat yourself up for parenting failures (real or perceived), look up to see God’s smile upon…
Teaching Christology And The Incarnation...
In a culture where the majority of people self-identify as Christians, it’s important for youth workers (and all Christians, in general) to…
A Reflection on Barna’s Open...
The Barna Group conducted a global survey that included over 24,000 teenagers from 26 different countries
A Clearer Picture Of Developing Teen...
A critical period for neuroplasticity in the frontal cortex during the teenage years, a time at which risk-taking behaviors and mental illness…
Using Reason To Lead Little Ones To...
A childlike faith isn’t at odds with intellectual curiosity. In fact, a child’s appetite for learning could be the conduit through which he…
Recovering The Art Of Christian...
In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse
Expose Your Kids To Hard Truths
Shying away from hard subjects does little to prepare children to defend a faith that’s increasingly under attack
Nurturing Faith In Teens
5 ways you can nurture faith that goes beyond youth group
A Biblical Resource For Pastors On...
We must not fall for the lie of culture that our bodies are to be changed to meet our self-perception
3 Takeaways From Barna’s New Research...
The state of Generation Z’s faith
Teenage Brains: How It Works & Why...
But understanding how teenagers see the world or what makes them behave in a certain way is important
Strict Parenting May Hard-Wire...
Strict parenting can alter the way the body reads the DNA of children
Fla. Board Of Medicine Votes To Ban...
Which now moves to the Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine for approval
Whitmer And Prop 3, A Danger To Kids And...
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…
Michigan To Facilitate Child Sexual...
The Michigan Department of Education has adopted a radical gender theory program that promotes gender “fluidity” beginning in elementary school and encourages…
5 Reasons Why Kids Grow up And Turn Away...
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…
Gen Z Mental Health Crisis: How Pastors...
Anyone who works with Gen Z is facing a mental health crisis in this generation at levels they’ve never seen before
NIH: Children Who Think They’re...
New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child’s psychology
Suicide Prevention And Additional Notes...
Our teens desperately for need for the adults in their lives to be equipped to share Biblical truth and hope whenever the…
5 Truths The Church Needs To Realize...
The goal, first and foremost, is to treat each individual as an image bearer of God, worthy of love. The second, is…
Flashback: Parents’ Religious Beliefs...
It’s not that religious people don’t have suicidal thoughts or take their own lives — after all, even ministers sometimes die by…
Flashback: Even Christian Kids...
Flashback: Even Christian Kids Contemplate & Attempt Suicide
(As I’m doing research on teen suicide, I found the survey by Christian…
Woke Education A Critical Voting Issue...
A “Face the Nation” Republican, Democrat, independent agreed “woke culture” has become a concern for parents raising children in America
San Diego ER Seeing Up To 37 Marijuana...
“What’s being consumed in these concentrates is devastating for their mental health.”
Study: Gender Transition Surgeries On...
Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA
The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our...
Documentary on young women who went through medical gender transition, with cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and regret it
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