Mercy Every Minute

Burn Out, Informative, Parenting, Special Needs

 

Written by Deborah Wuehler, The Old Schoolhouse Senior Editor
www.TOSMagazine.com

 

We have written an abundance of articles about special learners over the years, through The Homeschool Minute™ email, and through The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine. Here is just one article of many titled, “Ten Reasons to Homeschool Your Child With Special Needs.”

Rather than talking about these special, struggling, and different learners, I want to talk about their special, struggling, and different teachers. I have found in teaching my special learners, that I need special grace. Some days I struggle more than they do. Some days I am overwhelmed with feelings of inadequacy for the task–to the point that my inadequacies seem even larger than theirs. I struggle with having to meet so many different needs and feel that maybe my needs and theirs are just not being met. I believe that someone else could certainly do a better job teaching these children. I think that perhaps I wasn’t cut out for this special job after all.

What helps me keep these discouraging thoughts at bay and answer these questions is to ask a few more. (more…)

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How teens, parents struggle to share social media

Informative, News, Parenting

Taken from http://almenconi.blogspot.com

Heather Kelly, CNN
By Heather Kelly, CNN
updated 10:04 PM EDT, Fri August 30, 2013

(CNN) — Carly and her mom are friends on Facebook, but that doesn’t mean they share everything.

The 17-year-old from Marin County, California, has refined her Facebook privacy settings so that her mother can’t see all the posts that fill her Timeline. Her father, meanwhile, never checks the social network.

“Right now, my mom can only see things that I post. She can’t see anything I’m tagged in or anything that my friends say to me on my profile,” said Carly, a high school senior who asked to be identified only by her first name. “She doesn’t know that, though. I’m like, 80% sure that every other teenager has done that too.” (more…)

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You share a fallen nature with your teenager; you must not stand self-righteously above them.

Informative, Parenting

Taken from http://www.paultripp.com/articles/posts/setting-a-parental-agenda
Written by Paul David Tripp

Let’s face it – parenting teenagers is a difficult responsibility. We don’t have to deny the reality that as a person passes from childhood into adulthood, the transition can be tumultuous. However, we should be shocked and saddened by the cultural cynicism toward our teens; they’re portrayed as hormonal creatures that need to be controlled and restrained. This view is wholly unbiblical.

So what is a biblical view? In this Article, I want to suggest four verbs that can set the agenda for parents who want to model Christ with their teenagers. (more…)

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