Shepherd's Hill Farm

Help For Troubled Parents
Troubled parents have a reason to be troubled, today.  The entire culture has allied itself with the teen mentality.  It began with the baby boomers—a generation who never grew up.  This is largely because their depression-era parents didn’t want their little “Throckmortons” to have to go through what they went through—unfortunately, this [...]

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I’m always amazed at how parents fall into the trap of believing that their at-risk teens have the same right to privacy as they do as mature adults.  Parents are making the mortgage payment on a nice home that their entitled and troubled teen believes is equally their own.  “It’s my bedroom.” “It’s my closet.”  [...]

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Troubled teen programs are certainly a help for troubled teens—especially Christian programs for troubled teens.  However, they are also a help for parents of struggling teens as well.  Parents with teens in crisis are especially gratefully for Christian troubled teen programs and schools, because often a rebellious teen is headed for jail or the grave [...]

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Too much pleasure can actually cause depression in our teenagers.                                                                                                                                     I think it’s time to whip this horse to death.  Until we realize that our technological babysitters ( TV, video games, internet, cellphones, etc.) are damaging our kids’ ability to think critically, constructively, and creatively when not properly monitored, we are spinning our wheels [...]

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I hear people, especially teenagers, say all the time, “Parents have no right to go through their kids’ drawers” or “Parents don’t need to be snooping around in their kids’ room”.   Unless Junior is gainfully employed with enough income to purchase his own dresser, and is able put a substantial dent in the mortgage payment, [...]

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