All Articles for Teens

Are your kids testing your boundaries?

How do we keep the culture from swallowing up our kids?

Today on the broadcast, teen expert Ron Luce, co-founder and president of Teen Mania, gives parents and youth workers some timely tips for connecting with teens.

What is it about the culture that is so irresistible to our teens?

Authors Alex and Brett Harris encourage teens not to waste their youth, but, instead, to courageously attempt something that will have lasting value.

The hardest things are the smallest things.

Everyone expects teens to rebel in some way, but Alex and Brett have started a rebellion of a different kind.

A father’s impression on his children lasts a lifetime.

Today on the broadcast, Rick Rigsby, president of Rick Rigsby Communications and chaplain for the Texas Aggies, talks to Dennis Rainey about his late wife’s battle with breast cancer and her eventual death.

What should a young man do with his desire?

More and more parents are expressing concern about the number of young women actively pursing their sons.

You go to college to prepare for a future career, but is that the only reason?

Today on the broadcast, Dennis Rainey talks with Thomas Shaw, vice president of student services at Moody Bible Institute, about the need for parents to coach their kids as they make the big step toward the college of their choice.

Is your teen prepared for adulthood?

Does your teen's unexpected anger catch you off guard?

What should you do about your teen's anger?

Dennis Rainey reminisces about the many interviews he's had with his daughters' dates.

Are you finding the teen years to be a challenge?

What do you remember about your childhood?

Michael and Hayley DiMarco about the very real needs of the typical teenager.

Michael and Hayley DiMarco talk about the 10 things parents unknowingly do that embarrass their kids.

Have you noticed your normally gentle teen becoming more temperamental? This could be caused by hormones, but it is often related to unresolved anger. Dennis and Barbara Rainey share some thoughts about the deadly trap of unresolved anger.

Teens are naturally curious. That's a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing, especially when it comes to alcohol, cigarettes or drugs. Dennis and Barbara Rainey talk about the dangerous and often deadly trap of substance abuse.

Did you know that the largest consumer of Internet pornography is the 12-17 age group? Dennis and Barbara Rainey talk about the pervasive use of pornography among teens and the lasting damage that exposure can have on a young man or woman's life.

Do you know what your teen is watching on TV and the internet? Dennis and Barbara Rainey encourage parents to act as the gatekeeper to their teens' viewing habits.

Teenagers are often eager to become adults, so they are sometimes quick to do those things which they think will put them on the fast track to adulthood. Dennis and Barbara Rainey continue talking about the dangerous trap of premarital sex.

Sexual intimacy is designed by God to be a beautiful experience shared between a man and his wife. But for many teens, sex has become a rite of passage. Dennis and Barbara Rainey address the serious trap of premarital sex.

Traps are devices designed to catch something unaware. Dennis and Barbara Rainey talk about the deadly traps that can harm our teens and leave them wounded the rest of their lives.

Oh, the joys of romantic love!

Teens, by nature, tend to struggle with parental authority.

How can parents pass on their faith to their children?

Adolescence is loaded with traps that threaten to sidetrack your teen.

Grab a paddle and hang onto your hat!

Is it possible to keep your daughter from having premarital sex?

On the broadcast today, Dennis Rainey talks with Christian counselor Sharon Hersh, author of the book "Mom, sex is NO big deal!", about shaping your daughter's sexual identity.

Sean McDowell talks about the Christian's practical yet biblical response to the culture's questions about sex.

Sean McDowell explains what a worldview is and tells how our worldview shapes who we become.

Sean McDowell talks about the huge relational and emotional gap facing teens today.

Do teens feel pressure to experiment sexually?

Is being a teen really all that hard?

What does it take for a teen to be popular today?

Barbara Curtis talks about setting appropriate boundaries for your children.

Barbara Curtis tells about the challenges that teens face today in the average American high school.

Teen Mania founder, Ron Luce, about a teen's bill of rights.

Vicki Courtney talks about the top five issues facing teens today.

Dennis and Barbara Rainey talk about the HomeBuilders parenting study Guiding Your Teenagers.