Let's achknowledge something. Parenting hasn't gotten any easier, it's gotten harder. Saints Mary and Mathias Catholic Church firmly believes in parents. We know you're trying hard to raise your kids to be the best they can be. We know it's difficult and we want to help. Check out these resources for support in a variety of areas. Also, please don't hesitate to reach out and let us know how we can better serve your families. 

Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
At a time when an already confusing youth culture is changing quickly, CPYU helps parents, youth workers, educators, and others understand teenagers and their culture so that they will be better equipped to help children and teens navigate the challenging world of adolescence.

Catholic Culture.org
This website helps readers cope with the full range of spiritual, moral, political, social, cultural, and ecclesiastical challenges with which sincere Catholics must daily contend in every aspect of their lives—including the family, the inner life of the Church, education, the workplace, public policy, and the interplay between faith and culture.

For Your Marraige 
This excellent website designed by the United States Conference of Catholic of Bishops is designed to strengthen and support marriage.

Parent Further
This is a parenting website created by the Search Institute. It offers answers to your “need-to-know-right-now” questions and provides you with an understanding of what it takes to raise successful kids who will become healthy, responsible, and caring adults.

Chastity.com
Parents can use this website when teaching their youth that romance without regret does exist. It's hard enough to talk about sex with teenagers, it's even harder when trying to talk about sex and Catholicism. Use this resource to help you approach your teen on topics such as dating, sex, abortion, contraceptives, pornography and much more.

Today's Teenager Podcast
oday’s Teenager podcast is a free tool for parents, teachers and other caring adults to understand, reach and influence teenagers.  Licensed counselor, Roy Petitfils, and his guests dive into the hard topics of child rearing like communication, bullying, depression and suicide,  emotions, perfectionism, sexting, coping, cutting, accompanying LGBTQ teens and more.  Raising teens is hard enough with the society changes brought on by fads, entertainment, the internet and social media.  Take some of the pressure off of yourself and let Roy and his fellow experts walk you through raising an outstanding teenager.