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Whatever we want our children to be, we must be first.

Chapter Two is entitled: Whose Idols are in the way ? “Start with your heart,” he says. The idol of comfort. “Secretly in our hearts, many of us want life to be a resort. At a resort, you live with a sense of entitlement. We reason that we have the right to quiet, harmony, peace, [...]

One of the crucial things that must happen in the parenting of teenagers is recognizing God’s moments of change, Tripp puts it. Parenting young adults takes *time. Fathers, please be wary of getting much involved in anything more than faithfulness to Church and your work. I look back to all the times that I needed [...]

So, this is the first post on the topic of shepherding young adults in your home. I don’t have teenagers. But God blessed my parents and I with a pretty good time together during my time as a teenie-bopper. And seeing as how we don’t have any elders that have gone through the teenage years, [...]

We all go through it. Most of us decide to give into our impulses to rant and complain about it. But I have noticed something about frustration.. When we know that another is going through a rough time with something and we find ourselves around them we do secretly hope that they will do the [...]