Parents, be encouraged by Joseph's story

Dave Burke  |  Features
Date posted:  10 Oct 2026
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Parents, be encouraged by Joseph's story

Source: Sweet Publishing / FreeBibleimages.org

If you are struggling with a difficult teenager, you need to know about Joseph.

This summer, we were trying to get to sleep, but the family in the next tent were trying not to murder their teenage son. He did not want to be in Keswick for the convention and, greatest humiliation of all, camping!

Mum and Dad were negotiating, placating, wheedling and threatening but it wasn’t working. That young lad was seething with anger, and nothing would calm him down.

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