Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Last week Parade magazine had a cover story by Judith Newman about how the teenage brain works. The headline of the story was: “What’s Really Going On Inside Your Teen’s Head.” The sub headline was: “They’re moody. Secretive. Spacy. Infuriating! Now scientists are starting to figure out why.” I didn’t pay any attention to the article until my 19 year…
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Tags: Blaming Others, Catholic Parenting, Happiness, Personal Reponsibility, Teenage Brain, Teenagers
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Saturday, November 13th, 2010
On a Friday night about eight years ago, I got myself into an argument with one of my college age children (“the college student”). The argument centered around a certain movie that I thought was morally objectionable. At one point, the college student blurted out: “Dad, most Catholics would not agree with you about this movie. You’re too extreme when comes to things like this. I…
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Webster’s Dictionary defines the word
revolution as “a sudden, radical, or complete change … a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something.” There was a sudden, radical, and fundamental change that took place in the United States during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. That change involved the complete and total…
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Tags: Catholic Boys, Catholic Families, Catholic Men, Catholic Parenting, Family, Fatherhood, Holy Family, No-Fault Divorce, Prayer, Rosary, St. Joseph, Teenagers
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Saturday, October 30th, 2010
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[/caption] About 22 years ago, during a discussion with one of my brothers about religion, the issue of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary came up. When I tried to point out the reasons why it was important to pray a Rosary every day, my brother got irritated with me…
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
In last week’s article,
A Prowler In The House, I threw down the gauntlet and challenged fathers to start conducting surprise inspections of their son’s iPods, cell phones, computers, and other devices.* After I wrote the article, I kept hearing the same imaginary…
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Tags: Catholic Boys, Catholic Families, Catholic Parenting, Chastity, Christian Sexuality, Facebook, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Pornography, Teenagers
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Last week Parade magazine had a cover story by Judith Newman about how the teenage brain works. The headline of the story was: “What’s Really Going On Inside Your Teen’s Head.” The sub headline was: “They’re moody. Secretive. Spacy. Infuriating! Now scientists are starting to figure out why.” I didn’t pay any attention to the article until my 19 year… Read More
On a Friday night about eight years ago, I got myself into an argument with one of my college age children (“the college student”). The argument centered around a certain movie that I thought was morally objectionable. At one point, the college student blurted out: “Dad, most Catholics would not agree with you about this movie. You’re too extreme when comes to things like this. I… Read More
[/caption] About 22 years ago, during a discussion with one of my brothers about religion, the issue of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary came up. When I tried to point out the reasons why it was important to pray a Rosary every day, my brother got irritated with me… Read More
In last week’s article, A Prowler In The House, I threw down the gauntlet and challenged fathers to start conducting surprise inspections of their son’s iPods, cell phones, computers, and other devices.* After I wrote the article, I kept hearing the same imaginary… Read More