Teenage expert to offer counsel to Scarborough parents

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Saturday event to help parents in dealing with complex late teens’ and adolescent issues
by GEORGE KAGAME

Parents in Scarborough and surrounding areas have an opportunity this saturday April 25th to learn more about taking care of their teenage children with Canadian teen expert Mark Gregston at Morningstar Christian Fellowship in Scarborough at 7 pm.


The speaking event is aimed at helping parents deal with their teenage children who fall into self destruction like sex, drugs, and risk taking in their late teenage years. It is named The Turbulence Ahead, sticking with your kids through the bumpy years and will focus on parents that are concerned the delicate stage of adolescence and will offer insights into what Christian parents should do to handle that stage of their children’s development. The speaking event is sponsored by Focus on Family Canada.


Gregston in a press statement says: “By far, the cultural pressures and consequences are worse for kids today. They are exposed to all types of influences-to things i never even thought about seeing as a kid. In my own life, i have a benchmark of what is appropriate and moral and an understanding of right and wrong. And as if satisfying their natural need for individuality and independence, it can literally take over their lives.”

He says that he aims to advise parents to take on a ‘position of loving respectful authority instead of letting children take their own directions and the parent assuming ‘a chummy friend,’ or the tendency to push the children away and criticizing their choices. Gregston runs a youth residential a 9 to 10 month program where teenagers are placed by their parents for counselling and says that Scarborough parents will have an opportunity to draw from his wealth of experience working with teens. He will discuss how to recognize warnings signs of teenage problems and how struggling parents can deal with them.