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Great post from a great parent:
Here’s the main bullet points:

Internet filtering
Computer game time
Cell Phone privileges
Cell Phone Limits
iPod Touch restrictions
Email monitoring
Facebook monitoring
TV time

Check it out here

I’ve been thinking a lot about parenting lately and I’ve found SCORES of things I just don’t want to do as a parent, this being one of them…I’m hoping to find some stuff that will actually work.  Bring on a Parenting Series at GCC.

Any time Pastor Beeson speaks, I listen.  This is a photo of him speaking to our middle school students at Camp Adventure where he dropped bombs of wisdom all week long!
He’s got a wealth of wisdom and knowledge that’s helpful to me as I chase Christ.  There’s a lot of people who KNOW a lot [...]

I must admit this is an area that’s not one of my strongest so I love learning from people who’s passion is in this area.  I can have a tendancy to respond too quickly when i’m face-to-face with a “hurting student” so i’m soaking all this free training in.
I loved these words of wisdom from [...]

I needed this reminder!
This one is sobering…and graphic.  Go check it out HERE.

There is a great article I read last friday night.  Here’s an excerpt from it but go read the full post HERE.
“Ultimately, church and culture don’t have to be mutually exclusive. The church should be the place where students learn how to interact with the culture without being swept into it. What are some practical [...]

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he’d learned in seven years.”
- Mark Twain

My dad sent me this quote sometime last week and it fit in perfect the other day as I was sitting on my back porch listening to the rain.
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Unknown.
Ephesians 5:15 encourages us to ‘be very careful how [...]

I think it was John Piper who once said, “If your child is rejecting Jesus, something might be wrong, don’t pretend everything is fine.”  …acknowledge that something is wrong.
You’ll know the best way to talk to your student but don’t settle for comfort by not talking to them at all.  You might feel better about your [...]

If you’re a parent of a teenager you’ve probably discovered that you might be losing access to them during these tween & teen years.  If I could take a moment and speak to that from the person who they’re usually leaving you for, it might be helfpul. (the person in the sense of another influence [...]