So God Made Teenagers
Being a teenager is hard. Being a parent of a teenager is hard. But, did you ever stop to think that in God’s perfect plan, He created…
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My Nest May Soon Be Empty But I Believe My Life Will Still Be Full
I talked to a neighbor recently who is expecting her first grandchild soon. She excitedly told me about how her daughter was feeling and about the…
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Dear Struggling Teen, Life Gets Better After High School
I grew up in a small town and I still live outside that small town. My high school was not huge, so everyone knew everybody. Everyone knew almost…
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The Time We Have Left Isn’t Nearly Enough
As a mom, I’ve always wished a postcard would come in the mail informing me that I was about to experience some daily task with my kids for the…
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The Secret No One Told Me About the Teenage Years is How Much I’d Love Them
I expected the sighs and the eye-rolls and the closed bedroom doors. After all, I was a teenager once, too, and I remember how I treated my parents.…
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Parenting is Harder Now So I’m Parenting Harder
Being irrelevant to my teenager daughter sounds amusing and inconsequential. Becoming irrelevant is different. It’s heartbreaking. The…
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Dear Teens: You Need Sleep More Than Your Smartphones
Each school night, somewhere between 8:30 and 9 pm, my three teenagers begrudgingly leave their phones on what I lovingly refer to as my containment…
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Sometimes All We Can Do is Be There For Our Teens
I slept on my teenage daughter’s bedroom floor last night. It wasn’t a slumber party. It was just all I could do. She’d gone to bed…
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She’s 14 and I Already Miss Her
Behold the 14-year-old. Starting to spread her wings. Starting to turn her gaze outward from the walls of this house onto the great big world.…
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Our Teens Need Jesus and We Can Show Him to Them
Being a teenager is hard. I sat at the DMV with my daughter, waiting for her number to be called to take her driver’s permit test. I watched as she…
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