Every youth pastor eventually comes across students that have behavior issues. Here’s a snippet from a recent guest post over at More Than Dodgeball on how to handle behavioral problems in your student ministry:
Recently, because of a few factors, there has been a dynamic shifted in our youth group. With this dynamic shift we’ve begun to encounter some behavior issues. Thankfully, the extent of the problems we’ve faced have been nothing more than disruptive behavior like talkativeness, goofing off, and things like that. Though these problems can seem minor they can quickly begin to wear down volunteers and cultivate a culture of disrespect in a youth group.
So, through some reading on the issue (Les Christie’s “When Church Kids Go Bad” and David Arp’s “Suddenly They’re 13”) and learning as I go, here are some insights that I’ve found…
Read the full article, by Joe Thompson, here.
