Keep 'Em Talking!

The dilemmas in Keep 'Em Talking! Reflect turn-of-the-century choices, ambiguities, and predicaments that teenagers face these days. But they're real -- as real as the high schoolers in your youth group -- and they'll push your kids to grapple with situations like these: - Sexual 'solutions' to stale relationships. - Parents who don't pull their support -- and their money -- from a child who doesn't choose the college of her parents' choice. - A pregnant friend with abortion on her mind, who trusts only one friend. - A youth group that criticizes one of their own for irresponsibly giving too much money to a street woman. - Dating across racial lines in a way that reflects what Christianity is all about -- if only church members saw it that way. - A confession of abuse at home, and a plea not to tell anyone -- With Keep 'Em Talking! you can explore these problems with your kids - and provide them with a biblical way of thinking about tough ethical dilemmas, on topics like sexuality, parents and family, school, friendship, truth and deception, spirituality, and a teenager's relationship with God. Here are 60 discussion-starting dilemmas, complete with reproducible pages . . . Thorough suggestions about navigating your kids through authentic discussions on real-life topics . . . Riveting quotes by kids that spotlight the subject at hand . . . Questions you can ask that invite teenagers to speak their feelings . . . Statistics that put a tough but typically adolescent situation in a larger perspective . . . And Scriptures that speak to the issue. Ignite discussions in small groups. Launch Bible studies. Illustrate points in your youth talks. Open the eyes of parents and adults to their teenagers' world. Hard situations call for hard decisions -- and Keep 'Em Talking! will give your kids practice at making them.