by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 19, 2019 | Parenting Teenagers
Do you know what it really means to bless your child? When my daughters turned 13, each of them got a special party for their birthday dedicated to having key people in their lives share messages of encouragement and call out the ways God was moving and working in...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 10, 2018 | Bare Marriage
Last week I was talking about the dangers of legalism, and I launched that series by telling a personal story of a missions trip I took with Teen Missions International back in 1986.I talked about how the emphasis was skewed, how the head leaders showed little grace,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 7, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers
Does technology eat up so much of your kids’ time that they have little interest in family? I ran a column a few years ago on how we need to bring our kids back into the family. As we’ve been talking this week about how to prepare kids for marriage (and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 18, 2009 | Family, Parenting Teenagers
I received an email the other day from an old friend who’s at a loss about what to do with her daughter. She says: My 14-year-old is hanging out with the wrong crowd, being extremely stubborn, and getting poor marks. She went to summer school and still got poor...