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 [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]