Parenting Today's Teens

Being a parent seems to be more challenging today than ever before. While our culture dismantles family values, moms and dads struggle to adopt new parenting styles that work. Is there any hope for this generation of parents?

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston gives you the guidance and tools you need to face today’s parenting challenges.

For free parenting resources, please click here.

For the latest on how to parent your teen, please visit the Parenting Today’s Teens website or our bookstore.

If you listen on a mobile phone or tablet, please download our Parenting Today’s Teens app available for Apple or Android. If you listen on a desktop or laptop computer, press the “play” button above to enjoy daily parenting advice.

For any more info on Parenting Today’s Teens or Heartlight, please visit https://parentingtodaysteens.org/ or https://www.heartlightministries.org/.

You can tell your adopted children they’re loved and chosen. Ultimately, adoption leaves many kids grieving a loss they don’t fully understand.

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston helps adoptive parents see adoption from their teen’s perspective.

For free parenting resources, please click here.

For the latest on how to parent your teen, please visit the Parenting Today’s Teens website or our bookstore.

If you listen on a mobile phone or tablet, please download our Parenting Today’s Teens app available for Apple or Android. If you listen on a desktop or laptop computer, press the “play” button above to enjoy daily parenting advice.

For any more info on Parenting Today’s Teens or Heartlight, please visit https://parentingtodaysteens.org/ or https://www.heartlightministries.org/.

When your teen has lied and deceived you more times than you can count, it’s hard to believe a single word they say. Is there any hope of ever rebuilding the trust in your relationship?

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston shares which responses to dishonesty are helpful—and which responses you need to avoid.

For free parenting resources, please click here.

For the latest on how to parent your teen, please visit the Parenting Today’s Teens website or our bookstore.

If you listen on a mobile phone or tablet, please download our Parenting Today’s Teens app available for Apple or Android. If you listen on a desktop or laptop computer, press the “play” button above to enjoy daily parenting advice.

For any more info on Parenting Today’s Teens or Heartlight, please visit https://parentingtodaysteens.org/ or https://www.heartlightministries.org/.

Today’s culture promotes communication that is based more on one-way expression of thoughts rather than active listening.

If ever there’s a time when our kids need someone to listen to them, it’s now!

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston encourages parents to talk less and listen more.

For free parenting resources, please click here.

For the latest on how to parent your teen, please visit the Parenting Today’s Teens website or our bookstore.

For any more info on Parenting Today’s Teens or Heartlight, please visit https://parentingtodaysteens.org/ or https://www.heartlightministries.org/.

Some parents control every aspect of their teen’s life in order to prevent them from making mistakes or getting hurt.

But the long-term consequences of such parenting can be devastating.

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston encourages parents to keep close to their teens relationally while letting the rope out responsibly.

For free parenting resources, please click here.

For the latest on how to parent your teen, please visit the Parenting Today’s Teens website or our bookstore.

If you listen on a mobile phone or tablet, please download our Parenting Today’s Teens app available for Apple or Android. If you listen on a desktop or laptop computer, press the “play” button above to enjoy daily parenting advice.

For any more info on Parenting Today’s Teens or Heartlight, please visit https://parentingtodaysteens.org/ or https://www.heartlightministries.org/.

When teens are sad or withdrawn, parents naturally want to know what is going on with them so they can help. But when teens won’t respond to anything, moms and dads are often at a loss of what to do.

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston helps parents get their kids to open up again once they’ve shut down.

For free parenting resources, please click here.

For the latest on how to parent your teen, please visit the Parenting Today’s Teens website or our bookstore.

If you listen on a mobile phone or tablet, please download our Parenting Today’s Teens app available for Apple or Android. If you listen on a desktop or laptop computer, press the “play” button above to enjoy daily parenting advice.

For any more info on Parenting Today’s Teens or Heartlight, please visit https://parentingtodaysteens.org/ or https://www.heartlightministries.org/.

Teens today are the most tech-savvy and plugged-in generation ever! Social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are an integral part of their daily lives.

So, how can we put healthy boundaries around digital usage?

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston outlines five healthy ways for parents to handle their teen’s online life.

No one hopes to fail. We don’t set out on our parenting journey looking forward to making mistakes or watching our kids make mistakes. But failure happens!

So, how can we have a healthy response to life’s inevitable mess-ups?

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston helps us get a new perspective on the benefits of failing.

Whether it’s with a spouse, a relative, or a close friend, healthy relationships require intentional effort and quality time.

And the same principles apply to the relationship with your teen!

This weekend on Parenting Today’s Teens, Mark Gregston identifies the five markers of a healthy relationship with your teen.