Hey parents!
The leadership team here at Twentyfourseven would love to connect you with some awesome resources for you and your family. We know raising teens can be challenging at times and we want to provide any help to assist you in your journey. Our desire and our belief is to partner with you in life and ministry with your children, not replace it. Here are some websites, blogs and small groups designed just for you... the parent of a teenager. If there is anything we can do for you please feel free to contact me personally at 484-947-1799 or email jake@gotwentyfourseven.com.
Pastor Jake
Parents of Teenagers Small Group
Meeting: Freedom Life Christian Center (Ark Room: 2nd Level)
Time: 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month
(except for August)
6:30 - 8 PM
Leaders: Dwight & Peggy Stoltzfus
Contact: peggy@freedomlife.tv or (610) 593-5959
This is a small group designed for parents of teenagers. Share in community and fun with other parents in the same season of life.
Websites
Center for Youth and Parent Understanding (Highly Recommended)
Plugged In Media Resource
Great site for movie/music content and information
Gamer Dad
Research is showing that inter-generational video game play builds parent/child relationships. This site follows up that research with online help for dads who want to play video games with their kids. Included are reviews, news and a variety of other resources for gaming dads.
Connect With Kids
The aim of this site is to help parents and educators help children. Each week they gather the freshest information from experts at universities, research organizations, hospitals, child advocacy groups, and parents and kids themselves. They present that information in video news and feature stories that are understandable, compelling and useful.
HomeWord
From Jim Burns, HomeWord seeks to advance the work of God in the world by educating, equipping and encouraging parents and churches to build God-honoring families from generation to generations. Includes daily radio shows, advice, resources and events.
Strong Families
The online home of Dr. John Trent’s Center for Strong Families. The site helps visitors launch church and community-based family ministries to build strong, God-honoring and committed family relationships.
ParenTeen
This website is the home for ParenTeen Seminars. ParenTeen Seminars "equip parents to both understand and nurture their children in our constantly changing culture." You can also find out information on "Hurt - Inside the World of Today's Teenagers Seminar" based on the book of the same name from ParenTeen Seminars President, Chap Clark, Ph.D..
Girl Talk
Girl talk is a website designed to be "a guide for mothers and daughters to prevent underage drinking." The site encourages mothers and daughters to communicate with each other and to discuss the dangers of alcohol.
The Network on Transitions to Adulthood
www.transad.pop.upenn.edu/index.htm
Founded in 2000, this University of Pennsylvania organization examines the changing nature of early adulthood, and increased difficulty associated with transitioning from adolescence into the early adult years.
Family First
A helpful and practical site loaded with info on marriage, parenting, fatherhood and family life from an organization whose mission is "to strengthen the family by establishing family as a top priority in people's lives and by promoting principles for building marriages and raising children."
PlanetAhead
From the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, this site offers sex and sexuality advice to children and teens in the form of an online comic book featuring sexual superheroes. This is a place to discover the a-biblical sexual values, attitudes and behaviors trumpeted in the mainstream of culture.
Scholarship Coach
Created by young entrepreneur Ben Kaplan, this site is designed to help high school students fund their college education through scholarships and grants. While Kaplan does sell his scholarship guides through the site, there's a load of free information on scholarships, financial aid, tuition reduction, college savings plans, etc.
Child & Family WebGuide
This is one of the largest clearinghouses of news and research relating to child development, and just about any other issue of concern to parents. Operated by Tufts University, the site has a great selection of articles and links dealing with a variety of teen issues, from bullying and anger management to drug abuse and eating disorders.
All Pro Dad
All Pro Dad is a helpful resource for men who want to become better fathers. Their free daily e-mails offer information, advice, and inspiration to help today's men become better fathers and husbands. All Pro Dad has partnered with many NFL players and coaches in an effort to make an impact in the community by bringing fathers and their children together.
Confident Parenting Today
http://www.confidentparenting.com
Confident Parenting Today is parents "on-line help source and confidence builder." The site includes tips of the week, featured articles, news and events, as well as many parenting resources from a Christian perspective. You can also sign up for a free monthly newsletter.
Family Education
http://www.familyeducation.com/home/
Family Education offers a website where "millions of parents find school solutions, homework help, parenting tips, and expert advice." You can find information about school as well as entertainment and media.
Moms In Touch
Moms in Touch International is a wonderful organization of mother's across the nation who have decided to lift their children up in prayer. Moms in Touch are moms who believe that prayer can make a difference. They get together with other moms in the community to pray for their children, schools, and teachers.
Center for Sports Parenting
http://www.sportsparenting.org/csp
A web-based program that provides parents with guidance and answers to questions and issues related to youth and sport. CSP seeks to help all those involved with youth sports deal with the growing pressures associated with kids and competition in our culture.
realFamilies.com
Christian parenting advice from Dr. Kevin Leman and Dr. Jay Passavant. The site includes parenting tips and information categorized by age of children, along with resources for marriage.
Understanding Your Teenager
Founded by youth ministry guru Wayne Rice, the Understanding Your Teenager organization conducts lively and informative parenting seminars across North America. The UYT site features information on these seminars, a helpful online bookstore, and parenting tips.
Parent Soup
Perhaps the most extensive parenting site on the net. Updated daily, it offers tips, tools, chats, news, message boards, reviews and more on all things parenting.
National Center for Fathering
A great site for Dads! Fathers can find practical fathering tips, research on fathering, information on the fathering movement, humor, and an online version of Today's Father magazine.
Bully Free
Bully Free is a site committed to preventing and stopping bullying in all environments (i.e., schools, workplaces, etc.). Their goal is to promote the Golden Rule everywhere. Great site for parents, educators, and youth workers striving to create bully free environments.
Day of Purity
http://www.lc.org/dayofpurity.htm
Day of purity is striving to promote purity in mind and actions especially among today's youth. This website encourages youth to partake in the national day of purity where they can take a stand and make a public demonstration of their commitment to remain sexually pure, in mind and actions, until marriage.
