Shoal Creek ParenTeen - Slaying the giant of worrying how your kids will measure up.

 "This back-to-school season you might be like me. Wondering what kinds of challenges and discoveries await my kids this year. Wondering what will happen in their friendships. Wondering how they will grow—physically, spiritually, and a host of other ways—over the next ten months. But underneath these questions lies another question we wonder about.

We wonder how our kids will perform. How they’ll measure up against their peers in class and in sports or other pursuits. How they’ll take more steps toward the successful adulthood we dream about for them. 

These underlying questions loom beneath the surface like a sleeping giant. A giant of fear and anxiety. This giant occasionally bothers some parents, and continuously torments others. It’s the reason we push our kids to add that extracurricular activity, volunteer a few more hours to boost their resume, and take the “zero period” class at 7am each weekday to get a little bit ahead of the curve."

-StickyFaith.Org Blog

Ever felt this way? Finding yourself a couple months into the school and neck deep into these feeling and questions? Here's an article from Brad Griffin at Sticky Faith that was written for the beginning of the school year, but could serve as a good "thermometer" in how we're doing now that we're halfway through the school year's first semester, and some suggestion on what kinds of conversations we could try to have with our students.