A dad took his young daughter to the bank to open her own savings account. When she handed her $25 cash to the bank teller, she asked how they knew the difference between a counterfeit bill and a regular bill. The teller said that she was trained so well to recognize every nuance of the legal tender that any counterfeit was immediately obvious.
Dads often ask, “How can I keep my kids off their phones?” The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry verifies that kids spend a lot of time watching screens, including phones, tablets, gaming consoles, TVs and computers. Kids ages 8–12 spend 4-6 hours per day watching or using screens, and teens spend up to 9 hours per day. Excessive screen time has been linked to psychological problems - higher rates of depression and anxiety, and health issues - poor sleep and higher rates of obesity.
What have you hoped for? A solid marriage? Good health? A happy and healthy family? That the kids would embrace your faith and have the fortitude to stand firm in the winds of popular culture? A parent’s world can get rocked when a child drifts from the faith and begins to see truth as more subjective than absolute.
Is there fear at work in your life that dampens the hope you have? The Chapman University Survey of American Fears listed the top ten fears ...read on
Freedom is a word that has been used a lot this past week. America celebrated 247 years of freedom from King George III’s efforts to extend English rule over her. The Declaration of Independence was written and signed by representatives from each of the colonies on July 4, 1776. With that document, a commitment to unalienable rights, “… that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”, was initiated along with a pledge from each signature of “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Eleven years later, May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention opened to discuss the Articles of Confederation, the boundaries that would be needed to ...read on
A dad took his young daughter to the bank to open her own savings account. When she handed her $25 cash to the bank teller, she asked how they knew the difference between a counterfeit bill and a regular bill. The teller said that she was trained so well to recognize every nuance of the legal tender that any counterfeit was immediately obvious.
Dads often ask, “How can I keep my kids off their phones?” The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry verifies that kids spend a lot of time watching screens, including phones, tablets, gaming consoles, TVs and computers. Kids ages 8–12 spend 4-6 hours per day watching or using screens, and teens spend up to 9 hours per day. Excessive screen time has been linked to psychological problems - higher rates of depression and anxiety, and health issues - poor sleep and higher rates of obesity.
What have you hoped for? A solid marriage? Good health? A happy and healthy family? That the kids would embrace your faith and have the fortitude to stand firm in the winds of popular culture? A parent’s world can get rocked when a child drifts from the faith and begins to see truth as more subjective than absolute.
Freedom is a word that has been used a lot this past week. America celebrated 247 years of freedom from King George III’s efforts to extend English rule over her. The Declaration of Independence was written and signed by representatives from each of the colonies on July 4, 1776. With that document, a commitment to unalienable rights, “… that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”, was initiated along with a pledge from each signature of “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
