
Just as boys look up to and want to be like their fathers, and in recent days a controversial video has gone viral that shows that little girls want to be like their mothers, look like mommy and do the things mommy does.



Youth Group Lessons: In a perfect world, mothers would automatically set aside their wants and needs for those of their children. But that’s in a perfect world and our world is anything but perfect.



Youth Group Resources: There’s an interesting case pending that could change the definition of responsibility when it comes to juveniles committing crimes, and the parents who drop the ball.



Youth Lessons: Going back to the days of one room school houses, parents would not have batted an eye if their child received hand slaps with a ruler or was spanked with a wooden paddle by the teacher.



All Steve knew was that he was adopted from an orphanage in Honolulu, Hawaii when he was just 4 years old. Beyond those few details, he has spent his entire life wondering where he came from and longing to know the identity of his birth mother.



Youth Group: One family’s worst fears came to pass: their 25-year-old daughter committed suicide in their home, taking the precious life that they had brought into the world so many years before.



Youth Ministry Lessons: Sometimes teenagers are forced to deal with very adult decisions. And sometimes teenagers are forced to deal with situations that stem even beyond adulthood and require a deeper level of maturity.



Youth Lessons: Here is one to ask your students: If you received bad grades, how would your parents discipline you? Would you be grounded? Lose privileges?… Would you be forced to stand at an intersection showing your bad grades?

