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Risks For 21st-Century Families E10: Anger
Anger can be a dangerous habit that can grow in intensity and spread to many areas of your life if it goes unchecked. It is a huge risk for families if prevalent, and it especially affects how…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E9: The Absence of Empathy
The lack of empathy in people is becoming a bigger problem today. There are many possible causes, like increased screen time and less in-person interaction. In this episode, we talk about how such a…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E8: Sex and Pornography, Part 2
There are serious emotional and social risks for children who are exposed to or addicted to pornography. Learn how to teach about it in your family to help prevent pornography use, learn how to talk…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E7: Sex and Pornography, Part 1
Over the last few decades, cultural changes have made early sexual experiences for teenagers more common and acceptable, and sexual information is much more accessible and prevalent. Learn what…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E6: Self-Worth and Family Conflict
Learn more about self-worth for kids, how it differs from self-esteem, how it's produced, and how parents can help kids feel more of it. Then we talk about a possible link between how children feel…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E5: Social Media
Parents need to take social media use more seriously. Average hours of daily use for teens is already too much and an amount that is most likely to lead to increased anxiety and depression and…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E4: Substance Abuse
Learn why substance abuse can be such a significant risk for children and teens, the conditions that make them more vulnerable to it, and some possible solutions to help kids and families avoid the…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E3: Gender and Other Identity Issues
One of the most challenging issues today for children and parents is identity disorders, one of the most common being gender dysphoria. There has been a rapid increase in children facing these…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E2: Artificial Intelligence
AI use is becoming more commonplace for adults and children. While it is sometimes useful, it can have a negative impact on overly reliant users' critical thinking skills, beliefs in false…
Risks For 21st-Century Families E1: Introducing The New Series
What is happening to families and children in our modern world deserves more attention, so we started a new series focused on the current risks to families and children, like AI and technology,…
Faith Is More Than You Think E17: It Takes Faith To Marry And Have Children
A troubling social trend involves marriage and families. Marriage rates are dropping, and fewer children are being born. Faith, and not just religious faith, can contribute to people's willingness to…
Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E24: Connect Patience With Faith To Help Children Resist Temptation
Learn how to tie patience and faith together in order to help your children develop greater maturity and abilities to live a chaste life and believe in themselves. When patience and faith are fused…
Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E23: A Spiritual Identity And Culture
Learn how to align your family with the good things of your church culture so that your children will learn and receive support from many good people and their spiritual education will be enriched.…
Faith Is More Than You Think E16: Faith Can Help You Cope With Turbulent Times
Children are born with a predisposition to see regularity and predictability, which makes them feel more secure, but the environment can cause turbulence when there's family conflict, scary events in…
Faith Is More Than You Think E15: Faith Can Help Solve Loneliness
Loneliness is a growing problem among children and teens. These feelings can be due to overly busy or inattentive parents or too much screen time. Loneliness can lead to increased feelings of…
Faith Is More Than You Think E14: Faith Can Help Resolve Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the fastest growing mental and emotional issues for children in the US, so we may not be doing a good enough job teaching our children what faith is and how it can help. Learn how…
Faith Is More Than You Think E13: Faith Can Help With Objectification And Dehumanization
When someone fails to see another person as a fellow human with worth, it is due in part to a lack of faith. When someone doesn't believe in the value of all people or a higher power for a framework…
Faith Is More Than You Think E12: Faith Can Help Solve Pornography Addiction
Faith—or the lack of it—can be found in the causes and solutions to pornography addiction. Almost always, pornography is connected to another problem: high anxiety, vulnerability to depression,…
Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E22: Faith In Fidelity, Part 3
You can teach your children to have faith in fidelity by using the experiences in your family. Learn how using these principles can help your children be happy and successful. Visit FirstAnswers.com…
Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E21: Faith In Fidelity, Part 2
Teaching children to have faith in fidelity can be accomplished in a series of small steps called "One More Thing," which helps them go a little further and stay with something a little longer than…
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