The Best Advice for Parents of Troubled Teens
the best advice for parents of troubled teens In this article is some of the best advice for parents of troubled teens that I’ve heard. Early in 2015, I interviewed Nathan Mitchell, the Clinical Director of the ANASAZI Foundation. The ANASAZI Foundation is a family focused intervention program that helps troubled youth. (And by “troubled” I mean someone who is struggling with the challenges of life. So by that definition we’re all, at one point or another, troubled.) During the interview, I asked Nathan what he might tell parents of troubled teens. Now, this is a tricky area to offer advice because every situation is unique and requires prayerful consideration, patience, and effort; it’s really difficult to condense something as important as that down to a simple soundbite. Nevertheless, Nathan said some pretty amazing things (which I’ve compiled into a playlist here) and toward the end of the interview he said something that was particularly powerful. To be honest, I think it’s some…