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Intolerance with Sean McDowell [One Minute Feature]

It seems in our culture today when debate doesn’t work then the ideas are forced on you to tolerate.

In today’s culture instead of having debates, anyone with a different view is being silenced. Do you see the forcing of silence in our society? What are you teaching your kids when it comes to tolerance and intolerance and what is the difference today?

Force of Silence

“Those with a different view are being bullied to be silent. So what has happened is people are using power and just force to silent people with any kind of opposition, which destroys fruitful genuine debate. I mean Robert said in the Obergefell decision, “Look, by forcing this on the court those in favor of same sex mariage have actually lost the ability to have won the culture from within instead they have forced it from the top down.” I think he is right, that's what this new idea of intolerance and bigotry is and that is what is happening today.”

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Oil Change [One Minute Feature]

We should not just teach our kids the simple things, like sweeping the floor or to hammer a nail, but we should value the time that we are spending with them as well.

Some of the most simple things taught to our children can carry a sense of accomplishment that they do not get in our culture today. Thinking of how your dad taught you to change a tire or your mom showed you how to bake bread, what are some things you could teach your kids? Do you believe that the times have changed so much that these things are not necessary anymore?

The Simple Things

At Shepherds Hill Academy I am amazed at all the simple little things that were routine when I was a kid that today’s kids find fascinating. In today’s digital age not many kids work with their hands much anymore. Many kids do not know how to properly swing a hammer or use a hand saw to cut a board. Many can not read a simple tape measure or properly sweep the floor or clean a window.

Changing the oil in some of our camp vans made our boys feel useful and accomplished. When I sharpened a pencil in the shop grinding wheel, our boys thought that was the coolest thing they had ever seen. Let’s teach our kids some of these simple things. It will not be time wasted, but time well invested.

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I Love You [One Minute Feature]

Knowing how much your parents love you is so important to a child, no matter if it seems they can’t stand you or you are in the season of disliking them. Saying I love you no matter how you are feeling means so much more than we think.

We as parents sometimes just assume our kids know that we love them, but hearing it, could mean all the difference in the world. How often do you tell your kids you love them? Do your kids know that you mean it when you say it?

Three Simple Words

How often do you tell your kids that you love them? It is so easy in our hustle-bustle world to assume, neglect, forget, and otherwise, just fail to say those 3 simple little words to our kids, I love you. Don’t assume your kids know you love them.

You may be in a season where you don’t even like your kids but I will assure you telling them that you love them on a regular basis just might solve more character and behavior problems than you can imagine. Practice it in the mirror if you have to, but say it, they want and need to hear it from you. Don’t make it so robotic and cavalier that it becomes routine and meaningless, look your kids in the eye and mean it.

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Opportunity [One Minute Feature]

It’s important, especially in today’s time, to teach our children about the advantages of our economic opportunities here in America.

Our kids need to understand our history as the land of opportunity and why so many are still trying to get here for the American dream. Are you teaching your children the benefits of our free enterprise system? How are you explaining the difference between our country and those built on socialism and communism doctrine?

Land of Opportunity

Before your kids reach the teen years, teach them the benefits of our free enterprise system, which has taken quite a hit in times. Just the fact that a socialist like Bernie Sanders could garner so much support from young people should give us a rise for concern.

Our kids need to know the great history of our nation’s opportunity for career options compared to the demoralizing failure of socialism in Eastern Europe and the gross injustices associated with Red China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. Ask your kids why aren’t people invading their borders to get in, but have never stopped trying to get into America. There is a reason we are called the land of opportunity.

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Smartphones Are Tools with Phillip Telfer [One Minute Feature]

Though we look at our smartphones as a convenient tool in our lives, our kids see them as somewhat of a toy, not realizing the potential danger they hold in the palm of their hand.

The new normal is for every child to have a smartphone or they do not fit in. If giving a child a smartphone could cause bodily damage would you let your child have one without training them to use it? Do you see the potential harm that smartphones can do mentally and emotionally to your child?

Hidden Dangers

Phillip Telfer: There is a difference between a handsaw and something like a bandsaw. If you're all careless you are going to lose a thumb. Now when it comes to digital tools today, they are very powerful and the problem is if every time you stuck your hand in your pocket and touched your iPhone, you had the potential of losing a thumb, every parent would be concerned and every parent would be training their children that this is dangerous, you could lose a thumb. There are other factors in life that you can lose, there are other areas that are going to cost you and that takes some training to understand, that these are tools, they are not toys. If we can not handle them carefully, then maybe we shouldn’t be handling them until we can handle them with care.

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Nuts [One Minute Feature]

We as Christian parents need to see and teach our kids to see the child abuse behind our society believing that puberty blockers and reassignment surgery is a valid option for our kids today.

In today’s culture, if your opinion is different from anyone else, you are wrong, especially when it comes to our kids and their identity. How are you as a parent handling your kids as they discover who they are? Are you discussing how today’s society is brainwashed into believing that transgender issues are not issues?

A Brainwashed Society

You may not have a child struggling with transgender issues, but I can assure you the indoctrination the kids are getting in public school and in our culture at large is brainwashing them into believing that puberty blockers and reassignment surgery are valid options for kids that do struggle. You and your kids need to see this as the child abuse that it truly is and that it is fueled by parents, our government, and mental health officials no less.

The LGBTQ community has infatuated America’s infrastructure brilliantly and effectively. I lack it up to the Dred Scott case back in the 1800s, when the Supreme Court ruled that black people weren’t fully human. Don’t allow your kids to be brainwashed by our depraved culture.

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PM Thoughts [One Minute Feature]

In our culture having an opinion is a freedom that some do not have, but learning the truth along with an opinion can help understand the objective conclusion.

Wisdom comes from listening, so in our society where opinions are aired more than truth, how are you teaching your kids to understand the difference between fact and opinion? Are you teaching them the ways of scripture to define truth?

Facts Over Feelings

Because of today’s proliferation of postmodern thinking more and more people are airing their own feelings based opinions. Fewer and fewer are taking pleasure in understanding the objective truth. Wise parents encourage their kids early on to learn, solve problems, and to come to conclusions and decisions based on understanding the objective truth about things not by mere feelings alone.

Proverbs 18:2 says, “A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions." So don’t raise a fool to contribute to our society’s demise. Since a fool says in his heart there is no God, a foolproof way of not raising a fool is modeling to our kids the God of scripture.

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