This is not a post about regret or blame. Let’s be clear up front. It’s about encouraging fathers to seize the day and share your knowledge, wisdom, experience – share your self – with your teens while they are still teens and you still have this golden window of opportunity. Read more…
We’ve all heard the term “helicopter parent.” The parent who feels compelled to follow around with constant monitoring of their child or teen, ensuring everything goes as planned. So let me ask you this: have you EVER heard the term used in a positive light? Didn’t think so. Why Read more…
Of all the lessons we can learn from the Father of the Prodigal, this one may be the hardest: He is willing to allow his son the freedom to make his own choices and mistakes, thereby learning the most powerful lessons for himself. This certainly doesn’t mean he doesn’t Read more…
The simple, yet profound, challenge for us is this: We need to aim our own daily lives at the target we want our teens and children to hit one day.
If you are frequently frustrated by your teen’s attitudes and actions of disrespect, laziness, sloppiness, disobedience, etc., TAKE HEART! Here are the five basic keys to steering them onto the right path – the path of personal responsibility:
Perhaps you took the time to look at this post because you and your family are going through a storm. Your son seems to have lost all moral direction. Your daughter never listens to anything you say anymore. Your teens seem to genuinely hate you. Sometimes you find yourself genuinely Read more…
So, you’re already very aware of how important it is to oversee and guide your teen’s digital world – especially regarding his or her smart phone. What you want to know is: how far should you go with monitoring activity? Do you stick with simply asking questions and discussing? Do you periodically look through your teen’s phone for yourself? Do you look several times a week? Do you inform your teen their smart phone is “open” to your inspection, or do you do it without their awareness? In this video post, I offer guidance to help you make these decisions well.
In the next few weeks, I will be offering follow-up posts to further unpack and explain the profound lessons I gather from this story. But for now, let me simply list for you the qualities of this Dad that offered the hope of real transformation in the life of his wayward son:
If you don’t want your kids smoking weed, you need to take charge of leading them in a better direction. Here are some of the most important points to include in your discussions with your kids about smoking/vaping:
Until they know how much you care! Parents, your kids need you to get this into your heads, keep it there, and let it change the way you interact with them. Your teens don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care! I’d love to say Read more…