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Parenting Teens Part VIII

Ben Alexander | September 10, 2009 | 1 Comments

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.  Your parents don’t do everything right and this tempts you to not trust in their words in other areas, I know.  But can I ask you something?  Will [...]

Parenting Teens Part IV

Ben Alexander | September 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

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

Parenting Teens Part III

Ben Alexander | September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

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

Ben Alexander | September 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

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

Ben Alexander | September 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

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

Ben Alexander | September 2, 2009 | 0 Comments

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 [...]