Improving Your Child’s Self-Esteem
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Don’t Overdo After-School Activities
Compulsive parenting can be equally hazardous to the object of all this attention: the child. Many parents today burn out their kids with too many scheduled activities. Like Martha (Luke 10:40), they allow busyness to distract their family from what is truly important.
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Pachyderms and Teens
Don’t let loneliness break the spirit of your teen. Teach him or her that it’s important not to conform to the whims of adolescent society.
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Growing Up Early and Late
Growth patterns impact a teen’s self-confidence. Understanding that fact brings insight into his or her world.
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The Pain of Release
As a child grows, it can be tough to release the parental grip, but letting go can be the healthiest option.
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What Parents Should Know About Teens, Part 2
Teenagers crave freedom but secretly, three out of four kids want a “take-charge parent.”
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What Parents Should Know About Teens, Part 1
Parenting teens can feel like navigating a minefield of emotions and boundaries.
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Why Teens Are Vulnerable and Fearful
Question: Dr. Dobson, why are kids so vulnerable? How do you explain this paralyzing social fear at an age when they are notoriously gutsy? There is very little else that scares them. Teenagers drive
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Help Your Daughter Build Self-Confidence
When your daughter goes to school tomorrow, tell her to watch the students who are coming and going. Some will be smiling and laughing and talking and carrying their books and playing baseball. Unless
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Words Are Becoming Lethal Weapons
Rebecca Ann Sedwick was only 12 years old. But she hurled herself off the top of an abandoned building in Florida in order to free herself from the daily torment of her peers. The bullies’ weapons? Words. But their cruelty toward Rebecca didn’t happen on the playground, in the lunchroom, or next to the school lockers. It happened on social media.
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Dr. James Dobson
Joe Waresak
Dr. Del Tackett
