My RiverOaks
Links
Spiritual Gifts Survey
College
Choosing a College → It’s a pretty impressive online resource that you should be directing your high school sophomores, juniors and seniors to. Get familiar with it yourself-it’ll be worth your time.
Communication
Understanding Your Teenager → What UYT’s mission? To help teenagers by helping their parents. Research has proven that teenagers are more likely to succeed in life if they have parents who will stay involved in their lives – all the way through adolescence. They want to help parents understand their kids better and stay connected.
Child & Family Web Guide → Although not a Christian website, Tufts University has composed a strong site dedicated to helping parents navigate the challenges of raising children.
Connect With Kids → A great site dedicated to helping parents better understand and communicate with their teenaged children.
Crisis
Institute for Youth Development → The Institute for Youth Development (IYD) has developed this site for parents, teachers, youth leaders and mentors to help teenagers escape lifestyles of risky behaviors concerning alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco and violence.
Culture
Center for Parent & Youth Understanding → Walt Mueller’s site is a cornucopia of facts, stats and insightful articles that will help keep you in touch with the pulse of today’s youth culture. Get on their weekly email update list-it’ll be worth it!
For Dads
Fathers.com A site dedicated to all kinds of fathers who need a little extra help in raising their sons and daughters wisely.
Media
Plugged In This is Focus on the Family’s focus on culture. It features film, television, and music reviews as well as updates on cultural trends that affect young adults.
Screen It Screen It doesn’t really review films like Plugged In does. Rather it’s helpful if you want to find out the nitty-gritty details of a particular film’s level and frequency vulgarity, nudity, drug use, violence, etc.
For Moms
MOMS in Touch An amazing network of mothers who pray diligently and regularly for their children and their teachers and their schools.
Parenting
Confident Parenting A site that endeavors to live up to its name by offering tools, tips and resources.
