Posts Tagged ‘Help for Parents with troubled teens’
Take a Walk in My Shoes
In the heat of an argument over the choices her son was making, a mother’s defense mechanism arose to support her son. “I’d rather have a gay son than a dead one,” she said. I could certainly see how overwhelmed this mom was and the frustration she felt of others not walking in her shoes…
Read MoreWatch Your Attitude!
Anger outburst, tantrums thrown, words spewing out of the mouth! You can’t believe what is happening. What an attitude! Before you know it, no one is looking at the other and in the heat of the moment, things get from bad to ugly. Now you are thinking, “I can imagine this in my household with…
Read MoreNUMB
Have you ever felt numb and dead inside? Maybe it was an incident that left you shocked, bewildered, and speechless. Quite possibly, a situation arose with your teen or young adult that shattered your dreams for them. Perhaps your child requires so much of your energy, thinking, and emotions, you are left exhausted with nothing…
Read MoreMy Life In Pieces – Healing for the Abused and Broken
I was introduced to Alice many years ago. Funny, interesting, creative, and eventually a good friend, her heart was BIG and caring. She loved the Lord with her very being. Behind those wonderful characteristics however, she was raised with a dark past that no one would want to go through. Growing up, her life…
Read MoreMourning Over Your Child in Crisis
During my years of being a parent of a teen and young adult in crisis, I have delved many times into the world of great mourning. Mourning can mean many different things to parents. It can be an extreme loss such as the death of a child through addiction. It could be through the painful…
Read MoreTo The Escape Room I Go!
I admit it. If I have the chance to hide from my teen, I would do it in a heartbeat. There are just times in which I have to go to my escape room and lock the door. I hid there for many reasons. When I kept myself from acting out against my own…
Read MoreHow to Help Teens in Crisis Thru CoronaVirus Epidemic
Families stuck in their homes. Four walls. No personal room to breathe and dealing with a teen or young adult in crisis. Yikes! How in the world as a parent am I going to get through this? Well, we can go under or rise above it. Today, I rise above it. How? First…
Read MoreAppeal to the Courtroom of Heaven – Shonda’s Story
Can you imagine a phone call that could change your life forever and shatter your dreams and hopes for your child? Can you imagine your world being rocked apart leaving you shocked, bewildered, numb, scared, and a plethora of other emotions that have you speechless? Meet Shonda. She received one of those phone calls…
Read MoreTeen = Rebellion
Oh that wonderful word – REBELLION. You beg and plead for your child to change their ways; Stop smoking! Stop drinking! Stop hanging out with the wrong kids! Stop getting into trouble with the law! Stop, Stop, STOP!!! Kids live off of it and you want to do everything in your power to…
Read MoreA New Year’s Prayer for the Hurting Parent
Dear God, May this New Year of 2020 be the beginning of healing broken hearts in my family. As I ask in prayer for restoration of my troubled child as well as for my own spirit, may we receive above and beyond rest and peace during our journey despite any chaos that comes our…
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