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Parenting Today's Teens
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Help for parents of teenagers from Mark Gregston, founder of the Heartlight Residential Counseling Center for Struggling Teens.
Recent Posts
Confronting Your Teen’s Mistakes
“The difference between the exact right words and the almost right words is like the difference between lightning bugs and lightning bolts.” – Mark Twain Avoiding toxic words and wrong motivations helps maintain a solid relationship while...
Guiding Teens on Life’s Highway
Parents of teenagers can grow anxious about the path their teen is choosing in life. They might worry about their teen’s future, or even fret over whether or not they’ll have a good relationship with their teen after they leave home. If you...
The Rising Tide of Teen Dishonesty
Some claim that the silly gesture of crossing your fingers behind your back to cover up a lie originated with Roman persecution of Christians. To escape death, those who lied about their faith in Christ, just as Peter did, made the sign of the cross ...
Parenting Teens This Week
This week instead of my regular article, I thought I’d mention a few things that caught our attention over the past few days… Parenting in the News… This week’s Time Magazine cover story is titled, The Case Against Over-Pare...
A Healthy Relationship with Your Teen
Do you want to become your child’s best friend? Of course you do! But does friendship with your child ever get in the way of your parenting? Do you cover your eyes and ears, or overlook problems with your teenager’s behavior because you ...
The Answers Adopted Teens Seek
When an adopted child enters the adolescent years and their thinking transfers from concrete to abstract, they might begin asking that unanswerable question, “Why did my mother give me up?” At a time that most kids are trying to “find themse...

