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Wednesday, September 1st, 2021

Kid Idol

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Being proud of your kids is one thing.

Kid Idol

Idolizing them is quite another.

Hierarchy at Home

Many parents tell me that their kids are the most important thing in their lives. Am I to assume then that God and their spouse are vying for second?

My experience has been that parents who smother their kids, especially their teens, are very often struggling with their own deeper issues of need and codependence.

Should our kids really be the most important thing in our lives? Anything we put before God is an idol and God cannot bless it. When God is #1 in our lives our ability to love our spouse and our kids become enhanced infinitely.

When kids see their parents put one another ahead of them, there’s a security that rests within them that makes being third infinitely better than being a finite first.

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"It is such a wonderful, God inspired thing you have done to help all of these children. I think people would love to read your book and learn more. You have helped changed so many lives, people will want to realize & learn about the work you are doing. It is so important." - Doris Newcomb, WFAX
“I am so thrilled to know that there are those out there who are standing on the authority of God’s Word in this age of compromise; teaching parents…to pass on that spiritual legacy to the next generation.” - Ken Ham,  CEO & Founder of Answers in Genesis
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About Me

I am the Founder of Shepherd’s Hill Academy, a Christ-Centered, nature-based, therapeutic boarding school, the Host of License to Parent, and the Author of the book “The Miracles of Shepherd’s Hill:  An Extraordinary Odyssey of Divine Interventions.”  The environment at Shepherd’s Hill Academy is intentionally designed to provide a rich, discipleship-focused atmosphere that promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual health and healing to troubled teenager and their families.  Learn More

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