Parent Connections
YW8 believes parents are the primary educators of their child. We are here to work alongside parents and youth-serving adults to guide teens in making healthy choices and avoiding high-risk behaviors.
YW8 has created interactive, educational, encouraging and fun presentations for parents. .
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Dr. Gary Chapman explores the world in which teenagers live, explains their developmental changes, and give tools to help you identify and appropriately communicate in your teen's love language.
Shares 10 specific steps you can take to protect your teen's health and future by empowering your teen to choose abstinence until marriage. Includes interviews with 100 abstinent teens.
Dr. Meg Meeker not only vividly explains the problems faced by today's teens, she provides the solution and gives essential and potentially life-saving information to all parents.
A researcher studies what prompts "mean girl" episodes, why certain girls are chosen as victims, how some are chosen as the "popular ones" and how to help teen girls overcome the common and painful experience of hidden bullying by her peers.
Empowers parents with the skills necessary to set limit, teach important skills, and encourage decision-making in their teenagers.
Equips and empowers parents with real-world techniques to successfully connect and communicate with your teen, bridging the gap to build a relationship of lasting influence.
Your teenager is crying out and desperately wants you to hear, so you can respond and make a new connection. What are these cries? According to author Timothy Smith, today's teens are crying out with seven specific needs: to be trusted, to be loved, to be safe, to have purpose, to be heard, to be valued and to be supported. .
Radical social agendas have taken over campus health and counselling centers, with dire consequences. Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman dares to speak out and expose how the "safer-sex" agenda is actually making our sons and daughters sick.
A powerful, practical book on the teen brain. Award-winning psychologist Dr. David Walsh explains exactly what happens to the human brain on the path from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.
Faith-based book by one of the most caring and captivating youth speakers in the nation helps you figure out God's awesome plan for sex, love, and dating. More than understanding it, you'll become fired up and develop the courage and conviction to accept nothing less than the best.
Dr. Meeker shares the ten secrets every father needs to know in order to strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her life-- and his own for the better.
Fascinating book that details how breakthroughs in the burgeoning field of neuroscience explain the impact having sex has on the developing brain of adolescents and young adults.
A candid, common-sense guide that is packed with must-have information for every parent of a teen, tween, or toddler.
This discussion booklet (sold as a stand-alone) walks parents step-by-step through the process of establishing healthy values in the home, and answers tough questions that young children have about sex.
Combines clearheaded analysis, penetrating cultural criticism, and practical advice for strengthening the institution of marriage, and provides clear, essential guidelines for reestablishing marriage as a foundation for a healthy and happy society.
Dr. Meg Meeker shows parents how to connect with their kids to save them from the epidemic of disease, depression, injury and death caused by the tidal wave of sexually transmitted diseases that, in some cases, have increased more than 500% in recent years.
A guide for parents on how to raise a strong son in these turbulent times. Taking readers on a journey from boyhood to manhood, Boys Should Be Boys delves into the mind, heart, and spirit of boys, showing parents how they can make a difference between the boy their son is and the man he will become.
““Parent Connections for me were eye opening to the things that we as parents have been desensitized to and now don’t think twice about letting our kids see or hear. Parent Connections helped me get on track as to what I need to be doing with my child and to help guide him in the decisions that will impact the rest of his life””