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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What Makes a Troubled Teen School Christian?
Christian troubled teen schools are a dime a dozen.  But, what really makes a troubled teen school Christian?  The question is asked, because so many troubled teen schools have compromised biblical principles for secular theory and political correctness.  In some cases they have compromised for the sake of funds [...]

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There are many areas that hurting parents grossly under-estimate as being significant in nurturing an emotionally, behaviorally, psychologically, and spiritually sound teenager.  Let’s talk about just one right now.  Having a biblical worldview can never be over emphasized.  Without one Junior has no objective transcendent starting point by which to determine right or wrong—no answers [...]

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In general, there are some areas that hurting parents grossly under-estimate as being significant in nurturing an emotionally, behaviorally, psychologically, and spiritually sound teenager–things that may keep an at-risk teen out of a residential program for troubled teens.
1.  Having a biblical worldview cannot be over emphasized. 

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Is it possible that many teenagers become at-risk teens who become troubled teens who then become teens in crisis largely because parents have bought into certain cultural “myths” or protocol that actually have no rational or biblical basis for which to exist in the first place—too often resulting in parents needing help from a Christian boarding [...]

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From my Christian boarding school and Christian wilderness program experience with troubled teens, one of the biggest problems I see with troubled teens today is their faulty understanding of love.  They confuse love and lust.  Parents of troubled teens and at risk teens too often define love with warm feelings and emotions only.  God defines [...]

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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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The following is an excerpt from a recent Shepherd’s Hill Farm newsletter.
UNUSUAL GRADUATION                                                                                 
Nearly every time we have a graduation ceremony it is always a time of celebrating the happy graduates and their new life in Jesus Christ.  This graduation ceremony was certainly happy; and, Jesus Christ was certainly celebrated.  However, two of the five graduates, [...]

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   The following is an excerpt taken from the SHF newsetter archives.                                                 
                                                                               THE WONDERFUL PAIN OF HEALING                                                              We seem to have a group of parents who really understand that change is compulsory in their own lives in order bring healing to their kids.  Before the weekend of the conference, one of our girls, who was extremely [...]

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The following in an excerpt from a Shepherd’s Hill Farm Newsletter.  Shepherd’s Hill Farm is a program for troubled teenagers and a help for parents of troubled teenagers.  Teenagers struggling with behavioral problems are finding healing in Christian boarding schools like Shepherd’s Hill Farm.  It’s a great place to get parent help for parents of troubled teens.
GOAT SCHOOL [...]

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