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I have a child who…listens to music with explicit lyrics
August 6, 2009
"I have a child who…listens to music that has references to killing, violence, and sex.” The situation you describe is one of the 6 key indicators that your child is in trouble. Those signs are the following: Disrespect showing little regard for your rules or your feelings Disobedience stretching the rules, or challenging them Talking back Association with questionable friends Disregard for coming in on time or heeding curfews Love for music with lyrics that feed rebellion These...
August 6, 2009
"I have a child who…listens to music that has references to killing, violence, and sex.” The situation you describe is one of the 6 key indicators that your child is in trouble. Those signs are the following: Disrespect showing little regard for your rules or your feelings Disobedience stretching the rules, or challenging them Talking back Association with questionable friends Disregard for coming in on time or heeding curfews Love for music with lyrics that feed rebellion These...
Five things that parents need to know: (advice from teenagers to adults)
August 11, 2008
The internet has more on it than you can begin to imagine. You can go to websites and learn how to make drugs from everyday items, their effects, danger, etc…to the chemical makeup of LSD or how to make Crystal Meth. Don’t underestimate a child’s power to deceive. The more they deceive the better they become at deception. Practice paying attention to your child when they’re younger and it won’t seem so strange to them when they are older. Don’t be in denial about your children...
August 11, 2008
The internet has more on it than you can begin to imagine. You can go to websites and learn how to make drugs from everyday items, their effects, danger, etc…to the chemical makeup of LSD or how to make Crystal Meth. Don’t underestimate a child’s power to deceive. The more they deceive the better they become at deception. Practice paying attention to your child when they’re younger and it won’t seem so strange to them when they are older. Don’t be in denial about your children...
20 Ways To Lose Your Teen
May 29, 2008
Allow them to watch television whenever they want, preferably in their bedroom—and make sure they have unfettered access to MTV, HBO, Cinemax, and premium movies channels. Put a computer with a high speed Internet connection in their room or in a place where they can use it without your supervision. Respect their privacy—never go in their rooms, monitor their email, or check on their Internet activity. Don’t monitor, question or in any way restrict their music or entertainment consumption. Subscribe...
May 29, 2008
Allow them to watch television whenever they want, preferably in their bedroom—and make sure they have unfettered access to MTV, HBO, Cinemax, and premium movies channels. Put a computer with a high speed Internet connection in their room or in a place where they can use it without your supervision. Respect their privacy—never go in their rooms, monitor their email, or check on their Internet activity. Don’t monitor, question or in any way restrict their music or entertainment consumption. Subscribe...
The “It’s Going to Happen Anyway” Philosophy
November 30, 2007
On October 18th, 2007 an Associated Press report from San Francisco stated the following: “City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine, and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.” [1] Public health officials from San Francisco are considering such a measure because they hope a “shooting gallery” will reduce the high number of fatal drug overdoses in the area. Bertha Madras,...
November 30, 2007
On October 18th, 2007 an Associated Press report from San Francisco stated the following: “City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine, and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.” [1] Public health officials from San Francisco are considering such a measure because they hope a “shooting gallery” will reduce the high number of fatal drug overdoses in the area. Bertha Madras,...
Sex in the Teen Zone
September 26, 2007
Protecting your child in a seductive world Sexuality and the act of sex is a beautiful thing designed by the God who “knit us together in our mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139) But like all beautiful things God designed for us, they are beautiful in the form and shape, boundaries and plans of the author and creator. Just as a sculptor’s handiwork is fashioned from clumps of clay or marble chiseled from unformed matter, when the sculpture’s artistic shape and the boundaries that define its beauty...
September 26, 2007
Protecting your child in a seductive world Sexuality and the act of sex is a beautiful thing designed by the God who “knit us together in our mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139) But like all beautiful things God designed for us, they are beautiful in the form and shape, boundaries and plans of the author and creator. Just as a sculptor’s handiwork is fashioned from clumps of clay or marble chiseled from unformed matter, when the sculpture’s artistic shape and the boundaries that define its beauty...
Parents are the Teachers, not the Culture
August 30, 2007
What role are you playing in teaching your children? This article is an excerpt from our Dangerous Trends parenting resource. Order your copy now » I recently watched my two children play a game in our driveway called “cross the street.” Other than the squirrels, my driveway is not a particularly busy place, but, in their imaginary world, it must have seemed real. My oldest child, who is six, was telling my youngest, who is two, how you safely cross the street. As he gave instructions,...
August 30, 2007
What role are you playing in teaching your children? This article is an excerpt from our Dangerous Trends parenting resource. Order your copy now » I recently watched my two children play a game in our driveway called “cross the street.” Other than the squirrels, my driveway is not a particularly busy place, but, in their imaginary world, it must have seemed real. My oldest child, who is six, was telling my youngest, who is two, how you safely cross the street. As he gave instructions,...
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