by Bruce Roeder | Apr 27, 2026 | Parenting, Teaching Children, Worship
Does your family have non-negotiables? We teach at our church that parents should have certain non-negotiables within their family structure and culture. A simple non-negotiable, for example, would be children going to bed at a prescribed time, regardless of protests...
by Bruce Roeder | Feb 26, 2024 | Discipline, Fathers, Instruction, Parenting
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.1 The NASB uses the word “train,” and the CSB uses the word “start.” As we will see later, the terms mean the same thing. This well-known Proverb is frequently misunderstood to...
by Bruce Roeder | Sep 11, 2023 | Deconstructing Faith, Parenting, Teens
As biblical counselors, my wife and I meet wonderful people who want to be more like Jesus intheir life problems. One of the more painful problems parents endure is when they think their teen or young adult decided for Jesus in their youth but now are deconstructing...
by Bruce Roeder | Jun 19, 2023 | Child-Rearing, Parenting
I took my then three-year-old grandson to the lake several years ago to fish. A man approached me from our condo association and started a conversation that lasted for about twenty minutes. My grandson patiently sat down on the grass and uttered not a word other than...
by Bruce Roeder | Apr 30, 2023 | Child-Rearing, Family, Parenting
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 NASB An article was published at rethinkingschools.org titled, Four-Year-Olds Discuss Love and Marriage. The author is an educator in the...
