Editors Note: This is the first article in our new series on “Helping Teens.” In this series, BCC counselors are unpacking how we can all care for teens who are facing different types of trouble.
Teens are heading back to school soon, with some adults feeling that the greatest danger facing our teens is the rising COVID variant. However, long before COVID, many teens were already facing serious troubles.
Simply reading the headlines describing one crisis after another, you can see that we are facing multiple challenges in reaching the hearts of the younger generations. In one sense, teens are going through something new in facing a pandemic.
Like past generations dealt with WWII, the Sixties, or the HIV Crisis, today’s teens are dealing with all kinds of trouble, but often feel helpless and don’t know what to do about it.
The book of Proverbs described adeptly many of the troubles faced by young people. Proverbs speaks in memorable sayings about the influence of foolish friendships, the enticement to chemical temptations, the allure of sexual activity, the excitement of violence, and the tendency to reject wise warnings.
If you were to listen to your local news and scour through teen-related social
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