February 2012
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Understanding Your Young Teen - Chapter Five
ROLLER-COASTER FREAK SHOW [EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT]
It is like everything is coming out, directed almost aimlessly, completely uncontrollable; irregardless of consequences and impact. Emotions are the topic of conversation that come out of Mark’s book in chapter five. He lists these new-found emotions as a new tool belt in a young teen’s development, in the space between concrete think...
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Understanding Your Young Teen - Chapter Four
MIND-WARP [COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT]
Have you ever wondered why young teens are the way they are? Why at times it seems as if they are completely engaged with you one moment and the next they are off playing games in their mind as they stare off into space? Having worked with young teens now for almost 15 years, I experience this on a regular basis. As a pastor and small group leader, I have often...
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Understanding Your Young Teen - Chapter Three
WALKING HORMONES [PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT]
Chapter three brought us to one of the most tantamount sections of parenting and guidance we have come to thus yet: “Walking Hormones”. We all know that one kid who reeks of him or herself from lack of a quality shower, or the kid who walks around thinking they’re the stuff because their bodies are ahead of the curve. We know these things to be...
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Understanding Your Young Teen - Chapter Two
IT’S ALL ABOUT CHANGE
This chapter, is really all about you. But it’s not; and it is. There is a mass idea out there that as parents, we don’t need to try and understand our young teens, because we already do. After all, we were there once and things haven’t changed all that much. The thing is, things have changed dramatically. The fabric of our culture today - within the...