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		<title>Is Your Teen Driving You Crazy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When your teen makes every wrong turn.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/03/11/teen/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Wisdom for Parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About the Parenting Today’s Teens page on Facebook.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/02/25/facebook-wisdom/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Blindsided by the Teen Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes parents get blindsided in the teen years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/02/18/avoiding-blind-side/</link>
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		<title>Getting the Help You Need, When You Need It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Families in Crisis retreat, coming up February 18-20]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/02/09/getting-the-help-you-need-when-you-need-it/</link>
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		<title>Adoption in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some adopted kids struggle with identity issues when they reach the adolescent years.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/02/02/workshop-parents-adopted-teens/</link>
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		<title>Proper Response to Teen Rulebreaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knee-jerk reactions to teen misbehavior are almost always counterproductive.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/01/21/proper-response-teen-troubles/</link>
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		<title>Boundaries for Teenagers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to develop and enforce healthy boundaries for teens.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2010/01/07/boundaries/</link>
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		<title>Teenagers Seeking Purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Help your teen find their purpose in life.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/12/31/teenagers-seeking-purpose/</link>
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		<title>The Gift of Second Chances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A celebration of second chances. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/12/24/christmas-joy/</link>
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		<title>Confronting Your Teen&#8217;s Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to avoid toxic words and wrong motivations when confronting a teen's mistakes. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/12/16/confronting-teens-behavior/</link>
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		<title>Guiding Teens on Life&#8217;s Highway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to help your teen find their way back on the right path in life.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/12/12/guiding-teens-lifes-highway/</link>
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		<title>The Rising Tide of Teen Dishonesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teenagers are lying, cheating and stealing more today. Learn why and what to do.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/12/04/the-rising-tide-of-teen-dishonesty/</link>
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		<title>Parenting Teens This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over-parenting or "helicopter parenting" is something I've been warning parents about for years.  I see it often, especially with Christian parents who desperately want their children to succeed in life, avoid the dangers of sin, and to make the right spiritual choices. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/11/25/parenting-teens-this-week/</link>
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		<title>A Healthy Relationship with Your Teen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to become your child's best friend? Of course you do! But does friendship with your child ever get in the way of your parenting? Do you cover your eyes and ears, or overlook problems with your teenager's behavior because you fear that confrontation will hurt your relationship?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/11/16/a-healthy-relationship-with-your-teen/</link>
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		<title>The Answers Adopted Teens Seek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When an adoptive child enters the adolescent years and their thinking transfers from concrete to abstract, they might begin asking that unanswerable question, “Why did my mother give me up?” ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/11/12/the-answers-adoptive-teens-seek/</link>
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		<title>Sorry, No Guarantees in Parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thinking that anything a parent can say, do, or offer to their children as they grow up will guarantee a smooth and trouble-free adolescence is just plain wrong. I’ve learned that there are no such guarantees in parenting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/11/04/sorry-no-guarantees-in-parenting/</link>
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		<title>Intervention and Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Susanna came from a great home, but by the time she was 17, she had become a cynical, street-savvy teenager. Initial experimentation with drugs and alcohol had spiraled into a full-blown addiction supported by the dangerous business of selling illicit drugs. Her life was in peril.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/10/30/intervention-and-recovery/</link>
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		<title>Never Give Up Parenting a Difficult Teen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re dealing with a wayward teen, you know how relationally fatigued, emotionally beaten up, and personally worn down you can get. In fact, you may right now be thinking, “I’ve been pushing against this wall forever…I just can’t do it anymore.”  But let me encourage you to never give up…keep parenting, even when the going with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/10/21/never-give-up-parenting-a-difficult-teen/</link>
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		<title>Marital Jeopardy Sparked by Teen Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought how the crisis with a difficult teenager can be hard on your marriage? Really hard! It can even lead to divorce.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/10/14/marital-jeopardy-sparked-by-teen-crisis/</link>
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		<title>All Due Respect from Your Teenager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The late Rodney Dangerfield’s “I get no respect” jokes were pretty funny. But it isn’t a laughing matter when a teenager becomes disrespectful to a parent.
While disrespect from a teenager can be demeaning and confusing to parents, it actually brings more harm to the child by tearing at the very fabric of their future. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heartlightministries.org/blogs/markgregston/2009/10/07/all-due-respect-from-your-teenager/</link>
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