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The Vulnerability of Our Girls: Protecting the Ones We Love, Part 2

Young women face unprecedented pressures about sexuality and relationships.

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The Vulnerability of Our Girls: Protecting the Ones We Love, Part 1

Today’s culture has normalized teen sexual activity, but at what cost?

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Teaching Kids About Sex – Part 2

Teaching your children the truth about sex might seem a bit scary, but if you don't do it, who will? Television? Movies? The public school system? Today on Family Talk, Dr. James Dobson concludes his insightful discussion with Dr. Kevin Leman and Kathy Flores Bell about their book, A Chicken’s Guide to Talking Turkey with Your Kids About Sex. You’ll not only learn how to give your children the truth and guidance they need about the serious subject of sex, but you may even deepen your relationship with them as well.

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Teaching Kids About Sex – Part 1

As a parent you may have experienced an overwhelming sense of panic when you realize it’s time to have that talk about the “birds and the bees” with your kids. On today’s edition of Family Talk, Dr. James Dobson talks with Christian psychologist, author and speaker, Dr. Kevin Leman, and co-founder of Team Lizzie Bell, Kathy Flores Bell, about the book they co-authored entitled, A Chicken’s Guide to Talking Turkey with Your Kids About Sex. You’ll be enlightened and entertained as you learn how you can trade those sweaty palms and the dread of “the sex talk” for a much more prepared and natural discussion with your kids. 

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Avoid Overprotection and Dependency

Let's look at the threats to self-esteem that must come as your child matures. From about three years of age, your little pride and joy begins making his way into the world of other people.

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Raising Spiritual Champions – Part 2

As a parent, do you have a plan for how you’re raising your children? On today’s edition of Family Talk, Gary Bauer concludes his passionate discussion with Dr. George Barna about his book, Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind and Soul. If we, as parents, do not fulfill our God-given privilege of guiding the development of our children, based on the Christian faith, we will leave them to the mercy of a fallen world. We must not continue to outsource our parental obligations to the secular culture, or else we’ll have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.

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Raising Spiritual Champions – Part 1

When you become a parent for the first time, you begin to realize the weight of the responsibility you carry in raising your children to be disciples of Jesus Christ. Today on Family Talk, Gary Bauer talks with Dr. George Barna about his latest book, Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind and Soul. Dr. Barna shares the findings of his extensive research on how critical it is to start shaping a child’s biblical worldview early in life. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it.”

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Trail Ready: Guiding Young Men to Honor God – Part 2

According to Mark Hancock, the CEO of Trail Life USA, we are outsourcing so much within our society, but one thing we cannot outsource is being a dad! Today on Family Talk, Gary Bauer talks with Mark about his new devotional entitled, Trail Ready: 101 Devotions for Dads with Boys. Gary and Mark discuss the biblical definition of fatherhood, and the destructive societal pitfalls we have been experiencing due to diminishing the integral role that dads play in raising boys. Instead of shaming fathers for what they have not done, we need to remind them of who God created them to be.

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Trail Ready: Guiding Young Men to Honor God – Part 1

According to Mark Hancock, the CEO of Trail Life USA, we are outsourcing so much within our society, but one thing we cannot outsource is being a dad! Today on Family Talk, Gary Bauer talks with Mark about his new devotional entitled, Trail Ready: 101 Devotions for Dads with Boys. Gary and Mark discuss the biblical definition of fatherhood, and the destructive societal pitfalls we have been experiencing due to diminishing the integral role that dads play in raising boys. Instead of shaming fathers for what they have not done, we need to remind them of who God created them to be.

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Growing Up Early and Late

Growth patterns impact a teen's confidence. Understanding that brings insight into a child's world.

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