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“Issues in Education”
High Schoolers are ditching College for Blue-Collar Jobs…
Going Woke in the Classroom in NY and PA…
Dr. Ralph Kerr of the “Teaching and Learning Institute” equips Christians on how to engage with their local public schools. Listen for more about what trends and issues are happening in YOUR local school.
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A growing trend is the number of post-high-school adults who live with their parents.
It’s described, somewhat imprecisely, as a “failure to launch.”
The reasons are numerous: financial, medical, convenience — or fear of “adulting”.
Christian counselor Christopher Anderson says there are practical ways families can help their young adult children be more comfortable and confident, ready to enter the next chapter of their lives. Young adults living at home, he says, showed share in the cost of living and share in household tasks. He also says there are significant steps which can help younger teens and
Anderson says the cultural emphasis toward entitlements – and away from personal responsibility — has hampered this generation’s development.
The licensed therapist says teens and preteens can learn be more ready for successful adulthood if they are involved in a church.
Bonus content: Family Life also asked our frequent News Feature guest for local reaction about this week’s updated news that the U.S. Surgeon General has issued a warning about the social, emotional and physical effects which come from young people being on social media. In his private practice, Christoper Anderson says the device addiction is real. He offers this guidance to parents and families in the Family Life listening area.
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Bonus content: Family Life also asked our frequent News Feature guest for local reaction about this week’s updated news that the U.S. Surgeon General has issued a warning about the social, emotional and physical effects which come from young people being on social media. In his private practice, Christoper Anderson says the device addiction is real. He offers this guidance to parents and families in the Family Life listening area.
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Mother’s Day was Sunday.
We talked with family counselor — and mom of four preteens — Jenny Coffey about what most moms might really like for Mother’s Day. Her answer for the weekend was “rest” and balance.
Those are still gifts which can bless mothers the other 364 days of the year.
Coffey gives us advice for families, including stories from what is working for her own household. She also has encouragement for moms themselves — how to avoid the internal and external pressures and stereotypes can improperly focus women on unattainable accomplishments and unrealistic status.
Also in this extended version of the feature we aired at noon, she shares additional insights for women who are parenting alone (either as single moms or without good support from others), as well as ways congregations can adapt their families to be better supportive of mothers (and fathers). Coffey sees this as an important evangelistic tool too, because older church leaders may not realize how parenting styles and family patterns have changed for today’s young adult generations.