# FamilyLife Today® - You Can’t Control This. Now What? Help for Christians Parenting Teens: Melissa Kruger

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Published: 2026-09-04T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Grades. Sports. Friends. Faith. Future. It’s ridiculously easy to turn your teenager’s life into your personal report card. Melissa Kruger, author of Parenting with Hope, gets honest about Christian parenting of teens when, perhaps despite the evidence, you want desperately to get it right. What if our good intentions are quietly piling pressure on our kids? And how do we stay close when their choices—and their future—aren’t ours to control? Show Notes and Resources Learn more about Melissa Kruger on her website . Get Melissa's book , Parenting with Hope, and her other book on our shop. Read and watch Josh McDowell speak about "rules without relationships" . Find more resources on parenting teens . Thanks to the Christian Standard Bible for sponsoring this episode. Learn more at CSBible.com . Follow us on all social platforms: Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Find resources from our podcast at shop.familylife.com . Download FamilyLife's app ! Help others find FamilyLife. Leave a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify . Check out all the FamilyLife's podcasts on the FamilyLife Podcast Network See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

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