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Loving Our Children For most parents loving our kids is as natural as breathing. It’s hardwired into us. And though they would usually agree that we really do love them, our kids may not necessarily always agree that we always make them feel loved. At least not in a way that fosters security and emotional […]
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The BlessingWell, let me tell you about this gift.
It does cost a little. It has a little investment involved. But this gift is so much more valuable than the latest gadget that they probably want. It’s a gift that can improve their lives now and in the future. It’s unlike most gifts that you know of. This gift is The Blessing.
So exactly what is the blessing? You’ll find out today on License to Parent.
Discussing Blessing Your Children with John Trent John Trent is the founder and president of Strong Families and claims that he, in fact, has the best job in the world. He writes, speaks, and trains others to create cultures of blessing in their homes, workplaces, ministries, and around the world.
In fact, John’s written over 30 books. We’re going to talk with him today about his award-winning book called “The Blessing“.
Episode Highlights:* Does one’s childhood guarantee success or failure as an adult? * How do we bless our kids the most? * What is the greek word for forgiveness? How is it significant? * What is it like to experience the blessing? * What is the blessing?
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Ask TraceIf you could sit down and get some free advice from a 20+ year expert on troubled teens, what would you ask? Here I ask questions on behalf of you, our listening friends. Every once in a while we sit Trace Embry down and ask him questions about parenting difficult teens. As you know Trace is the Founder and Executive Director of Shepherd’s Hill Academy. Shepherd’s Hill has turned around many young people that are heading in the wrong direction. Trace is skilled in working with teens and knowing what it takes to help your teen thrive. Find answers to questions about bullying, discernment, and more. Email asktrace@licensetoparent.org to ask your tough questions.
Discussing Parenting with Trace EmbryTrace Embry is the Founder and Executive Director of Shepherd’s Hill Academy a Christ-centered, outdoor-focused, year-long, therapeutic boarding academy for troubled youth. Trace and his wife Beth started Shepherd’s Hill Academy in 2001 to bring healing to hurting families. They came to Christ after becoming parents and learned a lot through that process as well as in their leadership roles at Shepherd’s Hill. Trace is also the author of “The Miracles of Shepherd’s Hill: An Extraordinary Odyssey of Divine Interventions” which accounts for the full journey of how Trace and Beth came to where they are now.
Episode Highlights:
- What is the #1 problem parents have today?
- A family is not a democracy. What is it?
- A child will be unhappy even though, what?
- We are fundamentally-what?
- Why is it important for parents to make their kids do things?
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FBI DadsToday’s American culture continues to marginalize the value of the nuclear family. This makes it easier for more and more fathers to abandon their God-given responsibility to help nurture their offspring. As a result, the issue of absentee fathers has become a maximum problem for a culture that has been minimizing their significance. How do we turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers?
Discussing Fatherhood with Ryan RoyRyan Roy is the leader of FBI Dads. FBI Dads stands for “fathers being involved.” Ryan is the author of “Be the Dad You Wish You Had.” His father abandoned him when he was just five years old. After many years of research and trial and error Ryan has uncovered the most effective tools and methods to teach any dad how to be the dad he wishes he had.
Episode Highlights:
- How are both men and women responsible for the creation of absentee fatherhood?
- According to Ryan why are dads not so involved anymore?
- In what way are women incentivized to have fatherless children?
- What is an advantage of having God in the picture for these difficult situations?
- What is the mission of FBI Dads?
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The EndOur world has always dealt with political corruption and evil. Yet these days it seems that American parents are having to raise their kids in a culture where the breakdown of the very foundations and fundamental principles of reality have been challenged and sometimes redefined. This is a different kind of evil. A kind of evil that logically culminates into chaos which logically ends in conflict, destruction, and death. So the question becomes- may we be living in the last days?
Discussing End Times with Sam SorboSam Sorbo studied biomedicine at Duke University but went on to be a model traveling the world and becoming fluent in five different languages. Modeling then took her to Hollywood for acting. Acting in LA is where she met her husband Kevin Sorbo. Today Sam hosts the nationally syndicated Sam Sorbo Show and speaks publicly around the nation. Find out more about Sam, her passions, and her family at her website.
Episode Highlights:
- What is the name of this most recent Left Behind movie?
- What current events are tied into the movie?
- What is the hope of the movie?
- What three things make people look clueless (even though they are not?)
- What is our job as believers?
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Counter Cultural Kids For over 2,000 years Christian parents around the world have trained their kids to live counterculturally. This simply means they are different from the norms of their native land. For the most part in America, Christian parents have raised their kids to fit into America’s culture. From the beginning, Americans had largely […]
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Digital Diet Raising emotionally, socially, physically, and spiritually healthy kids is exhausting. It requires healthy relationships. A generation ago, routine parent-to-child face-to-face interaction was just part of raising children, but now excessive screen time really helps diminish this essential face-to-face interaction. It is more important than ever for parents to be intentional in making this […]
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The Power of Music Pt. 2 Since the beginning of time philosophers, spiritual leaders, and even musicians themselves have all shared their convictions about the power of music and its ability to influence attitudes and behaviors for good or for ill. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are just a few who affirm these observations. In modern […]
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When we think of our kids being well-groomed, we think of issues tending to physical hygiene and dress; some things at least parents have some control over. Or to help our kids gain control over. There is grooming going on with our kids today that many of them, or their parents, are not even aware […]
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With this year brings so much change into our lives with the rearranging of our everyday lives because of COVID, do you think that we are unintentionally looking over our children and their needs? Have we let them fall victim to our culture because we have become complacent about all that has been going on? […]
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Many Christian parents around the world have raised their kids in Godless societies with no biblical standards and common sense for the last 2000 years. Could we be putting too much emphasis on common sense? How about when it comes to raising our children? John Rosemond is an American columnist with a pa parenting column […]
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During the COVID pandemic, many people have relied on technology for school, meetings, and even church. Do you believe our way of doing things has changed? Do you believe we have learned from this experience, especially for the future? Dr. Leslie Parrott and her husband, Dr. Les Parrott founded the Center for Relationship Development on […]
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In our culture today so many things have changed and we are now faced with a dilemma that America as we knew it, no longer exists. What are some ways that we as parents can teach our children to have morals and values? Do you see us as America ever getting back to the true […]
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Raising children in today’s society has been even more difficult than our parents ever dreamed, especially our daughters. What do you think are the challenges that our daughters face in our culture today? Do you believe that it is harder raising children now compared to 20 years ago? Dr. Meg Meeker has spent 30 years […]
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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 analogy of what postmodernism is? What can you […]
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Knowing what our world has come through over the past generations, do you think you could raise a family not knowing where your next dollar would come from, next meal would come from, with no insurance but have the faith in the Lord to give up everything you have known to walk forth in the […]
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In today’s post-modern and politically correct society that we live in, our kids are taught culturally a completely different definition of tolerance and intolerance than you were. Do you feel that we as parents tolerate our culture today? What do you feel is the difference between cultural tolerance and traditional tolerance? Sean McDowell PHD is […]
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With all that is going on in our society with COVID pandemic and other media heated stories, Do you think that the topic of the LGBTQ and the concerns and issues of it have been shelved? Is it a plan to silently continue to go against GOd’s plan? Dr. Quentin Van Meter is a Pediatric […]
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For many parents, there is no protocol for their child and technology. Do you have a digital protocol for your child(ren)? If so, what is your protocol for your child’s digital time? Josh Ochs is a digital citizenship author with a background in marketing at Disney and a love for all things technology. Josh also […]
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When watching the news this day and time, it looks like our country is one dysfunctional family, do you believe that our political beliefs have divided us as a nation and if so how? Do you believe that Christian families have become accustomed to the society we live in today? Jackie Gingrich Cushman is a […]
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We as parents teach our children right from wrong, we raise them in church and teach them to live a Christian life. SO why do they do what they do? Is our culture of media living indoctrinating our children and undoing what we have worked so hard to instill inside of them? Phillip Telfer has […]
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Some say, Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result is a sign of insanity. If my child comes up missing, does praying then, make me insane? “No, and I think God does the exact opposite, he says to ask, to seek. God says to be like the widow in front […]
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Without America turning back to the God Who blessed her, today modern-day Sodom Gomorrah will, likely, only get worse. But, what’s even more frightening is the Orwellian twist that’s now emerged and growing in our culture, a culture where logic, facts, even science and most assuredly, God–are no longer the final arbiters of truth. American […]
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I think you’d have to be blind or a liar to refute the fact that, by and large, today’s kids are not exercising the same degree of respect for their elders— or even their own parents—as they did just a generation or two ago. But, the distrust part of the equation, might not be so […]
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