teaching discernment

  • Parenting teens

    5 Steps to Teaching Your Teens Discernment

    Teaching your teen discernment is a process, but a much-needed one. Use these steps to get started, and give your teen a leadership "head-start" as an adult.

    Discernment – Something that we can all agree is sorely needed in this day and age, and also sadly missing. But discernment is a quality that, if untaught, could make your children especially vulnerable as adults! Merriam-Webster defines the word as “the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure; skill in discerning; an act […]

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  • Parenting teens

    Host a Questionable Movie Night!

    anyone who has at least one teen at home will attest to the fact that, more often than not, there comes a time in a teen’s life when anything that has the word “family” in it becomes anathema. With its double entendre usage, the word “Questionable” creates a certain edginess that will draw in even the most aloof teen!

    How can you teach discernment to your teens, help them develop critical thinking skills, and do it in a format that, well, makes them want to participate? Host a Questionable Movie Night Typically this has been referred to as Family Movie Night or something similar, but anyone who has at least one teen at home […]

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