Name: How to Help Your Anxious Teen
Price: 11.09 GBP
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Author: Jessica Thompson
ISBN: 9780736976718

Help Your Teen Find Joy and Peace

If your son or daughter is suffering from anxiety, you probably have more questions than answers: What is causing the anxiety? Is this normal teenage angst or something more serious? What can I do to help?

Jessica Thompson, the mother of three teens, has seen kids struggle with anxiousness. She wants you to understand the issues surrounding teenage anxiety and how our culture, the church, and perhaps even you may be contributing to the problem.

The culture tells kids that it's not okay to be normal, that social media is vital to their well-being, and that athletic, academic, and other accolades are all-important.

The church, though well-intentioned, sometimes places undue pressure on teens to "do big things for God" and "be the best Christian you can be."

Caring parents may inadvertently overcorrect their teens' behavior and try to control it ("helicopter parenting"). They may also use their kids' accomplishments to build their own identity or try to be their children's best friend.

But there is help and hope for you and your teenager. When you equip yourself with truth from the gospel and the rest of God's Word, you can help your child to cope with anxiety, and your family can experience greater freedom and peace.

How to Help Your Anxious Teen and Exploring Grace Together

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This book takes a thoughtful and direct look at factors in culture, church and our own parenting which may be exacerbating anxiety and worry in today's teenagers. It manages to be both challenging but also gentle, repeatedly reminding the reader that the grace of God found in Jesus Christ is what teenagers AND parents most desperately need and where they will both find rest. I appreciated that it is not a How To book full of '10 tips for...' or 'The top Nos of...'. Instead I found it to be a book that prompts reflection, confession, relief and thankfulness that God knows and loves us and our teenagers more than we do. Having not grown up in the church, much less American church culture, I found Part 2 on how the church contributes to your teen's anxiety fascinating though harder to identify with and it is possibly less relevant to the UK reader but, once again it serves to remind us that we and our children are saved by grace through faith and not by the works of doing the right Christian thing. I highly recommend this book for the flailing parent, clutching at straws, wondering if they've left it too late and feeling frustrated that being a Christian hasn't made all of this easier! It is also a very readable book to give to an unbelieving friend who is receptive to or investigating Christian things - maybe on the fringes of church - and struggling with their teenager.

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