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Things to Do in the Summer for Teens to Do with Friends
You’re ready for some serious hang out time with your friends this summer. Here are some fun, cheap things to do with your friends.
Alicia Hayes May 7, 2025
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Do It Yourself: Friendship Box
The school year is coming to a close and you want to focus on your beloved friends by showing them how much you love and appreciate their care and support. Instead of giving her a broken heart BFF necklace, create a useful memento that will last the test of time. This personalized box gives your best bud a perfect place to store keepsakes of your friendship.
Ally Demos May 6, 2025
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Your View of People
All human beings have value and they deserve to be recognized for that value. In order to truly see someone, we must be willing to build relationships.
Melinda May 5, 2025
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Criticism in the Light: Learn the Healthiest Way to Receive Criticism
Criticism can be a ruthless weapon. Forget about encouragement and a friendly tip, it can cut us right to the bone! Our criticizers become our foe and the world seems to topple over. Well it’s time to see criticism in the light, because it’s not as shadowy as you might have thought!
Alexandra Trainor April 25, 2025
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Examples of Constructive Criticism: Giving Criticism With Kindness
A helpful definition of criticism is weighing the good and the bad, and making an evaluation based upon both. Here’s some examples of constructive criticism that’s helpful and kind.
Alexandra Trainor April 24, 2025
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Why Summer Camp is Invaluable
Summer camp sounds like something your parents make your little brother do so they can get a break from his hyperactivity and pull him away from the video games. But, summer camp is actually more than just sitting around a campfire singing “Kum ba yah.” Here are 5 benefits to attending a summer camp in your teen years:
niNe. contributor April 10, 2025
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Fashioning New Friendships
Friendships are based on similarities: we share the same goals, humor, interests and hobbies with the people we hang out with and like. What we wear expresses our interest, so we typically hang out with people we LOOK like. Our friends typically share the same approach in fashion.
Erika Watson February 22, 2025
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Honest to God Honest
How Being Honest Makes You the Best Version of You Cassie is called downstairs by her father and mother. They sit down with her and ask why $120 was missing from her bank account. Yikes. She had
Haley Forte November 13, 2024
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Share Christ with Non-Believing Friends
Telling your friends about Jesus is intimidating. If you understand how much Jesus loves you, you’ll want to share His love with others and share the faith.
Melinda October 6, 2024
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Share Faith: Until They All Know
My heart hurts daily – not because people are mean to me, or my heart was broken by a guy or a friend. No, my heart hurts daily because there are people I love who do not yet love the Lord. We who know the Lord will live with a hurt heart until we share our faith with everyone and they all know and love the Lord. It’s a burden we bear. A burden they are unaware of, but a burden that the Lord helps us to mend.
Melinda October 4, 2024
