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Why You Should Let Your Child Fail The Benefits of Natural Consequences

January 31st, 201102:35 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Watching your child fail makes you feel helpless, angry and sad. You worry about everything from your child's self-esteem and social development to their future success. James Lehman explains that while it's natural for parents to worry about failure, there are times when it can be productive for kids—and a chance for them to change. Parents...
Leading Your Lost Teen Home

January 28th, 201104:39 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

When you’re lost, having someone to lovingly lead the way back home is a wonderful blessing. That, not shaming or lecturing, is what teenagers need from their parents when they are lost. A few years back I bought a GPS (Global Positioning System) device. For me, it may be the single best idea since the invention of fire. It always knows right...
Self-esteem and Anxiety in Teens: Plus 5 Ways to Start Real Conversations with Your Teen

January 26th, 201111:05 AM ET

By Empowering Parents

Does your teen have low self–esteem? Maybe he has a lousy self image, or anxiety about fitting in at school or with peers. This week in EP, read about these difficult adolescent issues from someone who's been there and knows what he's talking about. Abandoned and abused as a child, Josh Shipp was raised by a series of foster parents who tried...
How Can I Find Time to Pray?

January 25th, 201107:19 PM ET

By Ann Dunagan

We all have 24 hours in every day. No matter how much we try to give the excuse that our schedule is beyond our control, we need to acknowledge (with all honesty) that we ultimately take time for whatever we want to take time for; and in most of our lives and personal schedules, there's a lot of wasted time. There's time to watch that movie we...
Jared Lee Loughner Strikes Out in Anger

January 11th, 201112:25 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

Whether angry at the world, angry at America, or just a psychopath, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner struck out with homicidal anger this past weekend in Tucson, taking the lives of six and critically wounding Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It has become an all too common scene; younger individuals expressing anger by snuffing out the live...
How to Manage Anger in Children and Teens

January 10th, 201104:49 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

It's hard to get most adolescents to comply, but when you're dealing with a hostile teen, it can be almost impossible. In part two of this series on anger and hostility in kids, James Lehman discusses concrete ways for you to break through your child's force field of anger and defuse his hostility. Don't give up yet—it really is possible to b...
Sexual Promiscuity and Adopted Teens

January 10th, 201102:27 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

Already feeling confusion about their identity and validity, adopted teens are doubly impacted by growing feelings of abandonment by their birth parents. It can lead them to inappropriately attach themselves to another person sexually. There are several catalysts for sexual promiscuity among adopted kids, above and beyond the normal temptations o...
Teen Troubles Can Ignite Marital Troubles

January 10th, 201102:20 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

Famed humorist and author Mark Twain once said, “When a child turns 13, put them in a box. Cut a hole in the box to pass in food and water. When they turn 16, plug up the hole.” Unfortunately, teen troubles aren’t that easy to solve, and they can strain all of the relationships in the family . . . especially the parent’s marriage. I receiv...

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