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How to Throw Your Child a Blessing Party

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...

Readers’ Stories of Spiritual Abuse at Teen Missions International

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 10, 2018 | Abuse, Parenting Teenagers

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,...

Stealing Our Kids from Technology: Let’s Get Them Back!

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...

What Do You Do with a Teen Who Won’t Cooperate?

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...