Two Cautions for Teaching Your Children

Taken from notes on Piper’s message at the Children Desiring God conference.
1. Indoctrination
By indoctrination I mean putting thoughts into a child’s head without a due concern that they should have good reasons for believing them. Whenever we teach children we must be concerned that we don’t simply indoctrinate them.
To want to have truth go into [...]

Bad Parenting Choices

Bad Parenting Choices

The ShopRite food market in Greenwich Township, New Jersey refused to decorate a birthday cake for a three-year-old in the manner his parents wanted, with his name: Adolph Hitler Campbell. The store also will not make a cake bearing the name of Heath and Deborah Campbell’s second child, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who [...]

Parenting Quotes

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you. — Ray Romano

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good [...]

Let’s Talk About Sex!

From The Source for Youth Ministry website:
Wanna know what’s tougher than having “the talk” with your mom and dad? How about having “the talk” in front of millions of television viewers!
That’s exactly what MTV will do on their new show Sex…With Mom and Dad.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Talk
It’s a known fact that most [...]

Bringing Up Boys

Yesterday was the first class in the series Bringing up Boys by Dr. James Dobson. It also was my first “adult” class that I have been able to teach at the church.

We had a good turn out and some good discussions as we looked at the fact that boys are gonna be boys regardless of [...]