This is for the young ones:
Okay Mr. and Ms. Fancy Pants..
I love ya, and I gotta tell you something.
You need to listen and honor your parents instruction. Â Your parents don’t do everything right and this tempts you to not trust in their words in other areas, I know. Â But can I ask you something? Â Will [...]
Parenting Teens Part VIII
Parenting Teens Part VII
In my last post I laid out some of the theological emphases in our circles. Â We don’t have a truncated and narrow-minded Christian tradition. Â A Christian and classical education is one of the things I failed to list, but alas the post was getting long. Â In parenting teenagers, we want to raise them in such [...]
Parenting Teens Part VI
In Chapter 4 Tripp quipps,
“I am convinced that we miss these dynamic moments (to instruct) because we don’t know what to talk about. Â Our Christianity often becomes fuzzier the closer it gets to real-life, everyday experience. Â So we clumsily throw out-of-context Bible passages at our children in the hope that they will somehow motivate them [...]
Parenting Teens Part V
Chapter 3 in Tripp’s book is about, “The Family: Â God’s primary learning community.” Â He says,
“What does it mean to say that children think? Â It means that children will seek to make sense out of life. Â They will try to organize, interpret, and explain the things that go on around them and inside of them. Â Children [...]
Parenting Teens Part IV
Whatever we want our children to be, we must be first.
Parenting Teens Part III
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 [...]
Parenting Teens Part II
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 [...]
Parenting Teens Part I
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 [...]
Frustration
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 [...]