When you’re rearing young children, you become well acquainted with the physical demands placed on you. Parenting is exhausting work. Sleep is interrupted … and you hardly have a private moment to yourself. But somewhere along the way the physical demands become emotionally draining, as well. When a child turns eleven, twelve, thirteen … there’s an inexplicable transformation that occurs. Today you’ll hear Chuck Swindoll introduce a message about this precarious season … presented at an INSIGHT FOR LIVING summer conference for families. It’s part of our topical series called FAMILY MATTERS. We’re talking about SURVIVING THOSE CHALLENGING YEARS.