{"id":38165,"date":"2021-08-26T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38165"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T21:17:35","slug":"how-to-help-teens-by-listening-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38165","title":{"rendered":"How to Help Teens by Listening Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Editors Note:<\/strong>&nbsp;This article is written by BCC Counselor Colleen Ryan as part of our series on &#8220;Helping Teens.&#8221;  In this series, our counselors are unpacking how we can all care for teens who are facing different types of trouble.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not listening to me!\u201d<br \/>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you ever listen to me?\u201d<br \/>\u201cHow come you don\u2019t put down your phone and listen to me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>We live in a culture where there\u2019s so much noise and so many distractions that we are losing the art of listening.&nbsp;We are losing the art of being present and being engaged with thoughtful conversation with those that we are with.<\/p>\n<p>We are attached to our phones and allow the various notifications that we receive to dominate our lives. We are losing the art of <em>listening<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> Quick and Slow <\/p>\n<p>Yet, our teens desperately need to have adults who are actively listening to them and engaged in their lives. James 1:19 says, \u201cMy dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did you catch that? <strong>\u201c<em>Quick<\/em> to listen, <em>slow<\/em> to speak, and <em>slow<\/em> to become angry.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now if the verse HAD said, \u201c<em>Slow<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors Note:\u00a0This article is written by BCC Counselor Colleen Ryan as part of our series on \u201cHelping Teens.\u201d In this series, our counselors are unpacking how we can all care for teens who are facing different types of trouble. \u201cYou\u2019re not listening to me!\u201d\u201cWhy don\u2019t you ever listen to me?\u201d\u201cHow come you don\u2019t put down your phone and listen to &#8230; Read More<br \/>\nThe post How to Help Teens by Listening Well appeared first on Biblical Counseling Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":38167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[868,800],"tags":[870],"class_list":["post-38165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-center","category-selected-authors","tag-for-those-seeking-hope","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BCC-Favicon-150x150-7.png?fit=150%2C150&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38169,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165\/revisions\/38169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}