Results tagged “parenting”
Teachers, Watchmen, Gatekeepers (10/14/09 - 6 Comments)
Earlier this year I was asked to prepare a talk on families and technology. I was to speak to a group of adults, mostly parents of teenagers, and address issues related to digital technology. I was pleased with the challenge and was reasonably happy with the final result. As I prepared that talk I began to think about the role of parents in the media consumption of their children. I turned to the Bible and...
The Gospel: The Key to Parenting (09/30/09 - 21 Comments)
Last week I reviewed Bill Farley's new book Gospel-Powered Parenting. I recommended it highly, saying it had "just the right combination of affirmation (your struggles are universal struggles, your joys are universal joys) and exhortation to both encourage and challenge me in all the right ways." After I reviewed it, I found there were a few things I wanted to ask the author. I went ahead and asked if he would be willing to do...
Gospel-Powered Parenting (09/22/09 - 12 Comments)
According to George Barna, there have been approximately 75,000 books on parenting published in the past decade. I sometimes feel like I have read all of them. It strikes me, though, that publishers must feel the same way and that, hopefully, they think hard before releasing yet another book into such a crowded marketplace. I at least wanted to give the benefit of the doubt to P&R with the release of William Farley's Gospel-Powered Parenting....
Oppositional-Defiant Disorder (08/01/09 - 40 Comments)
Here are three brief quotes quotes from Leonard Sax's Boys Adrift. I thought of this book recently as I was talking to my parents and heard them describe a person they know whose child apparently suffers from "Oppositional-Defiant Disorder." That explains the third quote. The other two are just good to think about. If you've got boys of your own, do take a look at Boys Adrift; it is a good read. ***** "Forty years...
My Heart Was Too Full (10/19/08 - 3 Comments)
In his sermon this morning our pastor quoted John Paton's Autobiography (still in print almost 120 years after it was first published). It's a quote I've heard often and one that has stirred me every time. It describes Paton leaving his home in Torthorwald to attend missionary school in Glasgow (just to get to the train he had to walk some forty miles). His godly father accompanied him for the first portion of the journey....
Book Review - Boys Adrift (06/03/08 - 14 Comments)
Something strange is going on with boys today. My memories of boyhood revolve around the great outdoors—running through fields with hockey stick guns, climbing trees, playing any and every sport, getting sunburns, heatstroke, ticks, sprained ankles and all the other bumps and bruises guaranteed to come to an active, rambunctious boy. Though today I live in a neighborhood filled with boys, rarely do I see them out and about; rarely do I see them engaging...
Oppositional-defiant Disorder (06/02/08 - 18 Comments)
What follows are three quotes from Leonard Sax’s book Boys Adrift. I am going to post a full review of the book soon, but for now suffice it to say that if you have boys or you are a boy (or a young man), you need to read this book! “Forty years ago, even thirty years ago, there was no shame in a young man choosing a career in the trades. Beginning in the early...