If you are reading this, I think I can assume you are a parent or leader that truly cares about your daughter and the young women [and men] you are leading of the next generation.  So, this article is not about the overt and dangerous ways people can hurt their children in the name of “loving” them.  This is about the people like you and me that care and love these kids so much that in doing so we can easily end up enabling poor choices and holding them back from their growth through passivity a...

There is no denying that when you are raising, or in any way leading, teens and preteens that there are some head scratching, jaw dropping, "what in the world" moments where they will do and say things that test your love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control in BIG ways.

What do we do? Blind rage fit? Laugh it off? Hide all evidence? Enable their unhealthy choices for fear of not being their "friend”, rocking the artificial facade of peace or o...