tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post111004435838914745..comments2023-05-30T02:26:58.095-06:00Comments on Waltzian Heresies: Scolding Squirrels and Pesky ParentsJoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420380165812363201noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post-1110982705147261102005-03-16T07:18:00.000-07:002005-03-16T07:18:00.000-07:00CORRECTION: Tripp recommends that we "pursue" our ...CORRECTION: Tripp recommends that we "pursue" our teens, not "puruse" them.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13420380165812363201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post-1110982522617623242005-03-16T07:15:00.000-07:002005-03-16T07:15:00.000-07:00Who's responsible for taking the initiative? The p...Who's responsible for taking the initiative? The parents! (...although I firmly believe that teens ought to pursue the relationship, too, which is the whole thrust of this post)<br /><br />In his outstanding book on parenting teens called <I>Age of Opportunity</I>, Paul Tripp writes: "A parent who has his hope in the Gospel will puruse his teenagers and will not stop until they leave the home. We won't wait for them to come to us for help. We won't argue with them as to whether we are needed or not. The call of the Word is clear. With hearts filled with Gospel hope, we will question and probe, listen and consider, plead and encourage, admonish and warn, and instruct and pray. We will awake every day with a sense of mission, knowing that God has given us a high calling. We are walls of protection that God has lovingly placed around our teenagers. We are eyes that he has given that they might see. So we converse and converse and converse."Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13420380165812363201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post-1110849300208471392005-03-14T18:15:00.000-07:002005-03-14T18:15:00.000-07:00I just want to say that I love hearing everything ...I just want to say that I love hearing everything that you have to say as long as it's not *cough cough* nevermind.. Oh yeah and I think it's nice that you also know our IP number? =) Have a nice life and to anonymous, I think it's both the parent and child's responsibility and the dogs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post-1110325456203923362005-03-08T16:44:00.000-07:002005-03-08T16:44:00.000-07:00Josh,
Who's responsible to take initiative ...Josh, <br /> Who's responsible to take initiative in deepening the relationship...the parent or the child?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post-1110303891205589152005-03-08T10:44:00.000-07:002005-03-08T10:44:00.000-07:00Only once you are older does the parent-child rela...Only once you are older does the parent-child relationship become easier to maintain! And even then sometimes it doesn't work until you are really older!<br />I would imagine that Pastor Josh had a bit of a struggle w/this when he was the age his teens are right now . . . But then that's what qualifies him to be able to share what the Lord has taught him! Along w/the heart he has for his young people to not make the mistakes that he did or could have done or almost did!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8719870.post-1110072076872357202005-03-05T18:21:00.000-07:002005-03-05T18:21:00.000-07:00Hey, Great blog!
Very thought provoking.
Even tho...Hey, Great blog! <br />Very thought provoking.<br />Even though at the time being I struggle with this wisdom, I know that it is true. I wish that the parent-child relationship was easier to mantain and develope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com