Authors Brian Mills and Ben Trueblood encourage parents to engage their teens in spiritual conversations before going to college. They talk about the two beliefs that determine your life every day
Your teens are college ready, but are they spiritually ready? Brian Mills and Ben Trueblood talk about the difference between parents who live out their faith and those who are Christian in name only.
Steve Argue notes that most young adults are embracing a theology that tells them "God wants me to be happy." Argue shows parents the different stages in the young adult journey.
Dr. Steve Argue empowers parents with three new strategies to help their young people have better connections with their family, faith, and world.
Shelby Abbott reminds listeners that the gospel has solutions for everyday pressures. Abbott tells of a time when the pain from a herniated disc had him scrambling to understand the character of God.
Campus minister Shelby Abbott talks about some of the stressors students face in today's culture. While stress is a natural part of college life, social media can make it worse. Abbott also addresses the stress of discerning God's will.
Inevitably our kids will step in pot holes along the way to maturity, and Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler want to help. Together these authors talk honestly to young teens about the challenges they'll face in adolescence.
Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler talk about teaching young men to seek knowledge through education, learning from adults, and other wise steps. They discuss some of the biggest challenges teens face.
Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler tell about the unique mentoring relationship they began when Shuler was a teen. Together they talk about the eleven wise decisions young men must make to live a great life.
Unlike the advice of Teen Vogue that robs teenage girls of their value, true advocacy and social responsibility should be in God-glorifying ways.
Right now there’s a mom whose 18 summers are up with her child.18 sounded plenty when empty sippy cups scattered the backseat. Now 18 doesn't feel enough.
Spending the night with friends seems like a normal part of growing up. But my wife and I wonder: should we let our kids go to a sleepover?
For 18 years, you have parented through a maze of joys, laughter, confusion, and even bruises. Now your child is a graduate. You have big changes ahead.
My kids need to see that their value isn’t tied to their grades or what school accepts them. I need to encourage them to follow God’s design and purpose for their lives and not insist they conform to a specific formula for success.
Ben Stuart gives some guidelines for parents to consider as they prepare their kids for the dating years.
How much should you tell your kids about the mistakes you've made in the past? Pastor Drew Hill believes parents should unveil some of the ugliness in our lives ... to show what God has done.
Drew Hill addresses what parents can do when they are disappointed in their children. There are many things that can trip up our kids, which is why parents need to be proactive in talking with their kids.
Pastor Drew Hill talks straight with parents about engaging kids emotionally. Hill recommends parents repeatedly initiate with their kids by going on family walks and enjoying family meals.
Pastor Drew Hill invites parents to see their teens through the lens of the gospel. Hill encourages parents to ask good questions, like Jesus did, rather than always issue a command.
Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty want young men to find success in the workplace. In order to see that happen, young men have to learn the value of hard work, punctuality, and responsibility.
Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty encourage young men to build a healthy relationship with their parents, and advises parents to listen and be there for their teens.
Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty have a heart for seeing young men grow into adulthood. Burnette and Hardesty also give insight to the most important question: "What is my purpose?"
We advise against giving your children a phone if you are not ready to have a conversation with them about it multiple times a week for multiple years.
If a child has strayed from the faith of his parents, it's tempting for parents to question what they did wrong. Phil Waldrep, Bob Lepine, and Michelle Hill offer hope for families of prodigals.
A list of questions to help you engage your teens about their beliefs on LGBT issues.
Five steps to prepare them to withstand peer pressure, stand with the truth, and display the love of Christ.
What role should parents play to steer a child away from the traps in the most popular sport for many teens—the dating game?
John Majors and Michelle Hill help parents discuss friendships, mentors, and opposite sex relationships with their teens through FamilyLife's new resource, Passport2Indentity™.
John Majors and Michelle Hill coach parents on helping their teens embrace the Christian faith as their own.
What defines real femininity and real masculinity? Michelle Hill and John Majors help parents explain to their teens what manhood and womanhood are really all about.
Michelle Hill and John Majors discuss a teen's longing for independence and how parents want this too, but that tensions often arise as they guide a son or daughter to successfully stand on their own.
Here are five questions to consider as you seek to help your daughter grow in godliness.
The arsenal of weapons employed against this generation of teens is unmatched in human history.
Is it possible to get through college without going into debt?
Helping your children learn to live within limits.
Form convictions that you can hold with integrity as you shape the life of your child.
Dennis and Barbara Rainey, parenting, ages and stages, teens
Few things occupy the hearts and minds of modern young people more than dating relationships. Having a boyfriend or girlfriend strokes a lot of core needs. First, it strokes the need for significance. You can almost hear the cry for validation when you hear a teenage person say, “You’ll never guess who I dated this summer …” You feel […]
Learn why freedom is so important to teens and how to help them channel that freedom without causing a revolution.
In order to teach our children, we parents must embrace three core convictions.
There are three critical tasks that parents must personally embrace before helping their children.
The popular Netflix series seeks to address a worthy issue, but it has some troubling flaws.
Observations about the Netflix series from a junior high teacher.
Your kids need you to hold them accountable in the area of dating.
Since we live in a media-driven world, how can we stay on top of the media?
Four lessons from a mom and dad who have been there.
Children must be taught that cutting others down in any way is repulsive because every person is made in the image of God.
Steering clear of peer pressure can keep your standards from being trampled.
Your kids know all about the latest phone and internet technologies. So do pornographers. Donna Rice Hughes talks about the importance of protecting your children.
How to prove to your kids that you're not weird.
A survey in a teen Sunday school class reveals a desire to know the honest truth.
Raising teenagers means pursuing their heart even when they don’t demonstrate love in return.
Shaping your child’s convictions about deceit begins as you teach him to fear God.
Many parents make the mistake of releasing their kids to make their own choices at the very time when they are most tempted to follow the crowd.
Eleven ways to ensure that your teenager will not be prepared for the future.
As a parent you do need to set some limits.
Is it a parent’s job to produce godly children or God’s?
Pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker talks about the alarming spread of STDs in America and urges parents to talk to their kids about the dangers of premarital sex.
The culture is in denial about sexually transmitted diseases.
