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Insight for Today's culture

DVT [One Minute Feature]

Today’s culture mixed with modern medicine can result in a bad prescription with a warning label for our kids.

It is very sad that in today’s culture we are even discussing the fact of hormone blockers and gender reassignment surgery for teens. How do you think you would handle your child coming to you about hormone blockers? Do you think the age limit of this should be raised until the age of 18, if it is even going to be a possibility at all?

After Puberty

I am not alone when I say that the mental health industry and our government has blood on their hands. It’s the blood of all the kids who have been put on hormone blockers only to later be put under the knife to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

If your child is claiming gender dysphoria issues, you’d be wise to help your child through puberty and wise counseling before making any decision about hormone blockers that can change your child’s life forever. Let’s not play Dr. Frankenstein with our kids because 97% of boys and 89% of girls will do just fine after puberty. Much of this issue is culturally induced so don't let our insane American culture distaste your family's future.

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University Excepted [One Minute Feature]

In today’s culture, going to college may or may not be what your child needs to be successful in life as an adult.

Spending your child’s college tuition on something other than college might be the right decision. Have you discussed college with your teenager to see what his desire for the future is? Could you see your child skipping college and going straight into business for him or herself?

College of Life

It’s a wonderful thing to be able to provide our offspring with a college education. Regularly putting money away for 10 years for that very purpose is a wise thing to do. Now I know this is thinking outside the box but wouldn't it make more sense before giving it to a college to keep the money in the bank until you are sure that Junior really is a serious college candidate.

I see nothing that violates scriptural principles if parents make a higher education on their dime contingent on Junior’s desire for higher learning and his track record for following through with what he starts. His college tuition money may be better funneled toward a business of his own that may require no college at all.

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Having It All [One Minute Feature]

Having children in today’s culture is hard, but when you choose to have children, you must take the time to spend with them, love them, and enjoy them.

Society has placed a grip upon parents today because of circumstances in life. How do working moms juggle a career and children with the time to do both? How can parents enjoy their children more with the stress of the world in today’s culture?

Enjoy the Raising

The American idea that said we can have it all has been a failure. Nobody can have it all, whatever that means. We have to choose, hopefully by God’s leading, how our lives are going to be invested. I said invested not spent. Currently, many parents are spending their lives at their kid's expense. Divorce, career, stuff, shacking up and constant amusement are all a part of the equation.

Missing dads in the inner cities and working moms in the burbs have each led to their own unique set of problems as well. Life is a trade-off, so let's stop mortgaging our kid's childhood in an attempt to have it all. If we enjoy having kids, let's commit to enjoying raising them properly.

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Antifa [One Minute Feature]

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”
Proverbs 23:13

There is a lack of discipline in today’s society. How do you feel this affects our society today as a whole? Do you feel there is a lack of discipline in our society?

Non-disciplined Society

Today’s kids are suffering from a lack of discipline, this means we all suffer. One reason who so many schools are being controlled by their students today is that there are no consequences for doing so. Coddling our kids and never telling them no from diapers to diplomas could be creating future Antifa candidates. The same can be true when we never tell them yes.

Wise discipline is not all yes or all no, we have to balance the two. Today’s prevailing lack of discipline isn’t from too much warm fuzzy love, but too little tough love. Proverbs 23:13 says, don’t withhold discipline from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he won’t die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.

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Story Of Shepherds Hill with Trace Embry part 4 [Podcast]

“If people can see what we are doing in life, experiencing the kingdom of God, the righteousness, the peace, and the holy ghost. Then they are going to want what we want, by planting those seeds in our kids.”
-Trace Embry

Postmodernism is basically a person creating his own reality and say this is what's real for me in my life and the result of that is that, not only have you created your own reality, but you have created your own morality. Do you agree with this …

Dr. Meg Meeker [One Minute Feature]

The natural instinct of a child should never be forced to something different, this can cause a child to have doubt within themselves.

Our society is becoming more accepting of what is being called grey kids, a child pushed away from their natural instinct. How do you as a parent cope with this choice of our society? How are your children reacting?

Born Instinct

Dr. Meg Meeker says, “Infants, young children, and toddlers have strong impulses towards being feminine or being masculate. You can’t write that out of them. What is happening now is that parents are raising or trying to raise what I call grey kids, they want them to be neutral to sort of pushing away their natural instinct. For the little 2 year old that gravitates towards playing with a doll, saying no, no, no, here’s a truck too, I know you may want to be a boy also, not only does it confuse them, but makes them doubt their own instincts.”

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Live Connection [One Minute Feature]

The power of human connection is beyond what any digital devices, internet or gaming system can give your child. Make the time to connect by disconnecting.

It’s a tech world and your children are living in a digital mindset. How often do your children get real-life human interaction? Do you have rules about digital time in your home?

Disconnected To Be Connected

It’s not easy in today’s digital age to advise parents exactly what kind of time and what capacity our kids' digital habits need to be monitored and regulated. But the more time kids spend in real non-digital communication with real-life human beings, especially with their parents the healthier they will be emotionally and almost every other way.

That doesn’t mean Junior will fit in with his peers if they are not in the same stance. It may even have the opposite effect. But live connections to real people are essential to being fully human. Through Christ, 12 men changed the whole world without the internet because through Christ real human connections are powerful.

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