By Trace Embry
When it comes to helping Christian teens defend the faith in today’s culture one of the best things parents can do is to help them shape their Christian worldview by teaching them apologetics.
Apologetics is simply being able to defend what one believes to be true. In today’s postmodern culture, Christian teens are being challenged to have credible answers for their faith. Continue Reading…
By Trace Embry
This blog is a small effort in my attempt to bring sound wisdom to parents to help in navigating their families through today’s culture.
For this week’s post I felt it is necessary to take the time to share some insight into a ministry impacting today’s culture, Shepherd’s Hill Academy. Also, I’ll explain how you can hear the full story later on in the post. Continue Reading…
By Trace Embry If you are wondering how to teach your teen anything these days there are three steps you can take in presenting them with teachable moments. As an example, I’ll use a situation that occurred one evening while I was watching TV with my family. 
I was watching Fox News when I saw a video clip of Barbara Walters interviewing Oprah Winfrey. The actual interview happened to be playing on another station at the very same time; so, I flipped the station to use that interview as a teachable moment for my teenage daughter. Continue Reading…
By Trace Embry
Proper parenting begins with how you perceive reality – how you view the world. This seems almost intangible in the minds of today’s parents.
In this post I want to provide some help in unlocking the mysteries of scripture to shed some light on the secret to proper parenting.
By Trace Embry
Regarding God’s, or in the case of a humanist, “Nature’s” ecosystem, there is a definite optimum for the family. Who could deny that, generally speaking, one father and one mother isn’t the best scenario for raising healthy kids and families?
So, why do so many folks insist that other combinations are just as healthy? It’s called personal preference. However, if we take personal preference out of the equation and look at the greater good of society as a whole, then we would be foolish to say that one’s personal preference should take precedent over what is good for the masses when it comes to what a family should look like as well as how it functions. Continue Reading…
By Trace Embry
For this week’s post I wanted to provide you with an easy access to our most read articles. Below are links to our top posts.
The following topics address some of the most often overlooked areas within families of today’s culture. Continue Reading…
When puberty takes place in a child, there are a myriad of changes that take place in our kids bodies, hearts, minds, and emotions. Often parents don’t always recognize or know just how to handle these changes as they are happening within their children.
License to Parent with Trace Embry had the opportunity to interview Dr. Walt Larimore. He is a speaker, an award-winning author of over 20 books and has been a medical doctor for nearly 30 years. He has worked with Focus on the Family as the Vice President and Family Physician in Residence. Interestingly enough, Dr. Walt began his medical practice in Bryson City, NC, which is a rural Smoky Mountain town not too far from Shepherd’s Hill Academy.
Dr. Walt has many humanitarian achievements and quite an extensive biography that you can view on his website as well as his many resources. We hope you will check out his website and learn more about Dr. Walt Larimore and what he has to offer parents. Continue Reading…
For this post, I am going to pull from an experience shared with the team at Shepherd’s Hill Academy (SHA) to illustrate the important role that prayer plays in the life of your teen.
One enrolled student had been spending virtually every waking hour of his life playing video games. It is not uncommon for kids with this type of addiction to quit going to school, stop eating normally, quit bathing, and neglect other important issues related to hygiene and life in general. Continue Reading…
In a world where teens spend more than 7 ½ hours a day in front of some kind of electronic stimuli—much of which is engaging more than one device at a time—how can a parent expect much more than a “Stepford child” for a teen?
The only problem is that too often the only things these “Stepford teens” actually do submit to are themselves, the electronics they are addicted to and perhaps the devil. Kids today are too often being parented by Hollywood, Madison Avenue, MTV, rock and rap stars, and other teens. Continue Reading…
Since the late sixties the masculinity of men has been demolished and under assault by the feminist movement. The understanding of men’s roles and how they are made in the imagine of God have been rewritten by society and the media. American television commercials and sit-coms are a prime example of a concerted effort to undermine the confidence of men and boys and how they are depicted in society.
The family is the foundation for an entire culture. If it is weakened it brings down the whole society. The American family is being redefined and attacked on a myriad of different fronts today, while most men seem to have lost their God-given influence and desire to preserve it. Continue Reading…
