{"id":1788360,"date":"2022-12-28T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788360"},"modified":"2022-12-28T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T12:20:25","slug":"if-your-kids-are-unhappy-take-them-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-your-kids-are-unhappy-take-them-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Your Children to Church if They Are Not Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-your-kids-are-unhappy-take-them-to-church%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Every time I turn around, an editor assigns a story to me about the mental health problems of our children. Most of the health experts I speak to correlate Covid lockdowns and our children\u2019s fragile state. Although closing schools was a significant factor in this phenomenon. What if there are other important factors?<\/p>\n<p>Another story, apparently unrelated to mental health crisis, is currently making the rounds in corporate press. The decline in church attendance is alarming. The following are some of the factors: \u201cnones,\u201d Respondents who claim to have no religious affiliation are the fastest-growing segment in the United States each year. A new generation of adults grew up without attending weekly worship services and is raising their children in this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cnones\u201d They prefer a parenting style that emphasizes: \u201cWe\u2019re fine without church and worship and religious instruction and institutions, thank you very much.\u201d But they aren&#8217;t perfect. They are not capable of managing daily stresses and other inconveniences. They are becoming more fragile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cnones\u201d will tell you it is because we need to better embrace children\u2019s differences and preferences (like their pronouns) while empowering them with positive affirmations and encouraging personal acceptance through self-esteem workshops. We fill their schedules with dance, theatre, STEM clubs, and sports. If all fails, our kids can self-medicate on social media for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Parents will do all of this, but won\u2019t take their families to church. Research shows that weekly worship services are more popular with children. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/study-church-going-teens-have-higher-gpas.html\">have <\/a>Higher GPAs mean higher scores on standardized tests and less chance of being held back a grade. They also are more likely to achieve a bachelor\u2019s degree in college.<\/p>\n<p>So why aren\u2019t parents taking their children to weekly worship?<\/p>\n<p>Many parents respond to surveys that say their children and teenagers don&#8217;t want worship. However, this democratic approach seems to apply only to church attendance. Parents are reluctant to give their children voting rights for other important decisions, such as wearing a seatbelt and getting vaccinations. A child\u2019s vote carries more weight when it aligns with a parent\u2019s desire to stay home in pajamas on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Why should church attendance be considered a powerful tool for parents to boost their children\u2019s mental health? For the answer, we can turn to research.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/press-releases\/religious-upbringing-adult-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, Harvard\u2019s T.H. Children and adolescents who attend weekly worship have some surprising health benefits, according to Chan School of Public Health. Children and teens who attend church report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction in life. They were less likely than their peers to experience anxiety or depression, to use illicit drugs, to have early sex, and to contract sexually transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n<p>These young adults also reported feeling more connected to their community and a sense that they are doing something worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge burden could be lifted from our children if they had a place to go each week that offered them grace and refuge from anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"featured_media":1788363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4294,5643,6919,4142],"class_list":["post-1788360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-children","tag-church","tag-federalist","tag-happy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}