Kristen Hatton
Kristen Hatton is the author of The Gospel-Centered Life in Exodus for Students, Face Time: Your Identity in a Selfie World and Get Your Story Straight. In addition to her own blog, she is a frequent contributor to The Rooted Ministry blog and enCourage women’s blog. Kristen lives in Oklahoma with her pastor husband and is the mother of three teenage/young adult children. Learn more by visiting her website at www.kristenhatton.com.
Posts by Kristen Hatton
Coronavirus
A Word of Hope for Youth Pastors and Parents: God’s Greatness Seen through the Plagues and in COVID
Anger
Helping Our Kids Through Grief and Disappointment Caused by COVID-19
Control
Our Kids Don’t Win When We Fight their Battles for Them
Family
Redeeming Summertime With Our Kids
Justification
The Seculosity of Parenting
Mothers
The Bond and Burden of Motherhood
Failure
What’s Driving Our Lawnmower Parenting?
College
Parental Self-Justification and the College Admissions Scandal
Parenting
To the Parent Struggling With a Struggling Teen
Gospel
Cultivating Kids Who Follow Christ
College
HTH: Three Reminders for Our College Bound Kids
Culture
13 Reasons Why We Need to Have Conversations With Our Kids
Family
Redeeming Summertime With Our Kids
Hope This Helps (HTH)
HTH: The Local Youth Worker Podcast
Discernment
Navigating Prom: Looking Through the Lens of God’s Word to Filter Our Parenting Decisions
Church
Are Kids’ Sports Our New God?
Parenting
Don’t Hurry the Hurt
Authenticity
How Parenting Out of Weakness Strengthened My Relationship With My Teen
Parenting
What Do Parents Need from Their Youth Pastors? (Rooted 2017 Workshop Preview)
Social Media
Reorienting Our Teens to the Truth Social Media Distorts (Rooted 2017 Workshop Preview)
When Talking to Your Teen is Hard (Rooted Parent Repeat)
College
Embracing a New Normal After a Child Leaves for College
Anxiety
Ecclesiastes and the Post Modern Teen: Letting Go of ‘Hevel’
Culture
Parenting Opportunities During Prom Season
Drugs
Have Our Kids’ Minds Gone to Pot?
Culture
What’s Love Got To Do With It: Navigating Teen Dating
Culture
For Such a Time as This: Talking Truth with our Teens
Rooted’s Most Read: Why Our Teens Don’t Know They Need Jesus
Rooted’s Most Read: Justification and the Teen Identity Crisis
Identity
The Heart of Middle School Meanness
Beauty
Longing for More: What Lies Beneath the Desire to be “Hot”
Anxiety
What Stressed Out Kids Need from Their Parents…Who are Stressing Them Out
Parenting
When Talking to Your Teen is Hard
Justification
Social Media is Not the Real Problem
Church
It Doesn’t Take a Youth Group to have a Vibrant Youth Ministry
Eating Disorder
Justification and the Teen Identity Crisis
Gospel-Centered
Why Our Teens Don’t Know They Need Jesus
Hope This Helps (HTH)
HOPE THIS HELPS: So What? Teen Bible Curriculum
Parenting
Why Teens Don’t Talk to Their Parents
Christmas
The Scandal of Christmas
Hope This Helps (HTH)
HTH: Get Your Story Straight
Social Media