When your children are little it's pretty common for them to be afraid of little things.

However, as they become teens, those fears can start to change and grow, and we'll talk about that today.

I'm John Fuller along with my focus colleague Dr Danny Werta and Danny what do you think

are and what do you see in your counseling practice? What some of the most common fears that let's say pre-teens and teens are

dealing with today.

And there's so many out there and it really can become very controlling in a teen's life and kids tend to cope differently with those fears they show up.

The most common ones are related to a sense of belonging. Am I enough?

Will I be alone?

Will I be accepted by others?

Will I be liked?

What do people think of me?

And then many times it's about sense of competence.

Do I do things as good as this person?

Will I be humiliated if I show any type of weakness?

And then the body image one, am I pretty enough?

Am I handsome enough?

Will people like me or not like me?

And then another one is the fear of the future.

What's going on in the future the unknowns and

having that play over and over again. Those are the most common fears I've seen in my

practice. Yeah. Well let's go ahead and hear some more things about fear from a counseling

biblical perspective Josh and Christie Straub are very open about how they've

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