Guidance counseling.(The Home Forum)(Today's Article On Christian Science)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: September 23, 1999 | Copyright information

I have teenagers. when other parents find this out, there are often knowing glances. Nods. Comments like "You have my sympathy."

Rather than riding out our kids' uncertain adolescent years, just hoping nothing awful happens, I am finding there's a way parents can look to God for guidance for themselves as well as for their children. I know I can't make my kids think or behave in only the ways I would choose. I also know how important it is for young people to learn to th...

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