Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 5 – Following A Spiritual Compass
If you have been following this series, I hope you now have a clear picture of some of the essential tools you can share with your kids and teens to help them live as...
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Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 4 – Living A Life Of Service To Others
As we begin looking at how cultivating a life of service to others guards our teens against the allure of addiction, let me tell you why I chose this image to illustrate the point:...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 3 – Facing The Hard Things In Life Directly
Let’s be realistic. Not every hard thing you or your kids will face in life is of giant proportion. It’s not always little David with his five little stones and his faith in God...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 2 – Working For Long-Term Rewards
As we continue this parenting series on how to help our teens prevent addiction in their lives, we move from the importance of living honestly to the power of working for long-term rewards. This...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 1 – Living Honestly
We begin this series of how parents can empower our kids against the destructive pathways of addiction by looking at the freeing power of living with a pattern of honesty and integrity. When I...
Equipping Your Teen to Live Free from Addiction
Addiction. We seem to hear more about it all the time. New forms of addiction. New addiction treatment options. Someone famous has been crushed by an addiction. This is what addiction is costing society....
Five Reasons You Should Be Concerned About Teens Vaping
If you have not yet heard about vaping or “juuling,” you haven’t been paying close attention to what’s happening with teens and pre-teens today. Yes, I said pre-teens. Vaping (sometimes referred to by its...
5 Reasons Families Need To Give Thanks
Life gets tough. And busy. And distracting. And even discouraging. Right? While it may take many different forms from family to family, I love that our country continues to recognize a holiday that is...
Family Inspiration
As parents, we should aim to inspire our kids whenever we can. It isn’t easy. It takes purposeful effort. It takes seizing the right moments. It often takes discipline. But our kids, from infants...
Three Ways to Help Your Teen Grow Toward Adulthood
As parents who love our kids, our aim is to raise them to become fully capable and responsible adults who will strive to make a positive impact on the world around them. Right? And...
