This Parent Guide will help you discuss the following questions:

• What is anxiety?
• Why does anxiety matter?
• What are the differences between anxiety and anxiety disorders?
• Why is anxiety on the rise in young people?
• What does Scripture say about anxiety?
• How can we help young people with anxiety?

 

This guide helps parents know more about the disturbing incidence of depression and anxiety disorders in the lives of young people. Like other Parent Guides in this series, this tool provides knowledge, references, and faith-based encouragement on the subject to help parents connect with their kids.

This guide will help you discuss the following questions:

• What are eating disorders?
• How does social media play into the portrayal of eating disorders?
• Why do eating disorders run the risk of being glamorized?
• Why are eating disorders on the rise?
• What can helping a teen with an eating disorder look like?
• What insight does Scripture offer on eating disorders?

Fear is real—in fact, God created it—but worry is never beneficial. By looking a little closer at the problems of fear and worry, we can learn where they come from, what they are at their root, how to overcome them through the power of God, and how to help our kids do the same.

This guide helps parents know more about the troubling incidence of suicide and self-harm in the lives of young people.  Like other Parent Guides in this series, this tool provides knowledge, references, and faith-based encouragement on the subject to help parents connect with their kids.

Death has been called the ultimate statistic: 10 out of every 10 people will die. And although some professions come face-to-face with this reality on a more regular basis (doctors, nurses, police officers, butchers, the military), this conversation can feel quite difficult to begin because much of American society is structured to keep the rest of us from really thinking about it. So how do we respond when death comes crashing back into our awareness? How will your teen handle news of school shootings, virus outbreaks, and opioid overdoses? This is the world that your teen is navigating, and they need your guidance. In courageously facing the reality of death, there is an invitation for you and your teen to focus on what really matters in life.

FOMO is the fear that something interesting or amazing will happen without us, causing us to miss not just the experience, but also the camaraderie that inevitably blossoms out of experiencing it with others. Unfortunately, it’s a broken way of dealing with our God-given desires to live purposeful lives and be in community. God did not intend for us to live in a constant state of fear! Reclaiming our own boundaries and helping our kids reclaim theirs is well within our grasp, but it does require diligence, wisdom, and intentionality.

In this guide, we’ll look at grief from many angles and answer some of the most common questions about how to parent a child who is grieving. We’ll also discuss the best practices for walking with your kids through grief.