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You who are parents know that you do not make your children offenders for a word. When they first learn to talk to you, they pronounce their words very imperfectly, and make many blunders. They break all the rules of grammar, and their prattle is often so indistinct that strangers who come to your house…

Many dear children are called by God so early that they cannot precisely tell when they were converted. But they were converted; they must at some time or other have passed from death to life. You could not have told this morning, by observation, the moment when the sun rose, but it did rise. There was…

Suppose one of you had a boy who said, “Father, I do not like my home. I do not care for you, and I will not endure the restraints of family rule; I am going to live with strangers. But father, I shall come to you every week, and I shall require many things of you, and I shall expect that you will give…

The full-grown man is stronger than the babe. His sinews are knit; his bones have become more full of solid material; they are no longer soft and cartilaginous, there is more solid matter in them. So with the advanced Christian; he is no longer to be bent about and twisted; his bones are as iron, and…

Think of your dear little one at home. He cannot yet read a letter in a book; he knows nothing of the things that his elder brother studies; but he knows his father. He may not know very much about his father; he could not certainly speak to others about his father’s business or his father’s wealth,…

Children are very apt to get into the mire. Most mothers will tell you, I think, that if there is a pool of mud anywhere within a mile, her firstborn joy and comfort will find it and get into it if he possibly can. No matter how often a child is washed he seems always to need washing again: if there…

I was noticing, in the life of that man of God the Earl of Shaftesbury, that his first religious impressions were produced by a humble woman. The impressions that made him Shaftesbury—the man of God and the friend of man—were received in the nursery. Little Lord Ashley had a godly nurse who spoke to…

New research suggests that teens that get too little or too much rest are more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as drunk driving. Researchers do not know is sleep issues cause the teens to take dangerous risks, or if they might indicate depression or other problems. They said the link is striking…

Ohio police say a middle school student apparently took up to $25,000 from his grandfather and gave $100 bills to classmates. They say several thousand dollars were passed out before they discovered what was happening. Investigators were able to recover up to $7,000, but said some of the money had been…

A social experiment put teens in a room by themselves to play a bean-bag toss game. After they played the game researchers asked the teens to report on their own scores. Unknown to the youngsters there was a hidden camera to verify the results. They found that eighty percent of the participants lied,…

Sharon Standifird served her country in the Gulf War, climbed mountains, and took care of her family, yet she found she didn’t get the respect she deserved from her children. When she would try to call them on their cell phones, her children choose to “Ignore” her calls. Rather than getting mad, Standifird…

Police in New Mexico say a group of suspected teen vandals was so worried because of their victims chasing them that they called 911 for protection. Reports indicate the teens aged 15 to 18 had shot several windshields with BB guns when one victim jumped in his car and began following them. The teens…

Authorities in Seattle say an attempted carjacking failed when the three would-be carjackers tried to steal a car none of them could drive. A 70-year-old woman told police that she was getting something out of her trunk when she turned around to see a gun in her face. Three teens demanded her keys and…

A 13-year-old-girl who was hit by a stray bullet is recovering from surgery and working through her pain. Tiya Hudson was hit in the back when a bullet went through the side of her house. Several neighbors heard an argument outside, but no one is sure where the bullet came from. Hudson’s doctors think…

Minnesota teenager Erica Clark found $2800.00 in a McDonald’s parking lot in an envelope filled with $100.00 bills. She immediately called her Dad, who asked her to come home so they could turn the money into the police.—Jim L. Wilson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUWkkU0V2o4 Proverbs 2:20-21 (NLT)…

In a Norfolk, Virginia courtroom, a teenager pleaded to the charge he murdered both his parents. The young honor student with no criminal history explained the reason he committed the crime. He explained that he’d gotten angry over routine punishments. “I just remember getting mad,” 16-year-old Vincent…

When sixth-grader Genaro Coronado organized a “See You at the Pole” event at his school, he envisioned being joined by two dozen or so students. He was excited that morning at he headed to school because he had been praying and asking the Lord to bring out other students. When Coronado arrived, he was…

In 2012, several students at Burns High school in Lawndale N.C. were looking for something to do. They decided to play a prank. Their target? The high school football field. Their weapon? Goats. That’s right. The students released a dozen goats on to the football field in the middle of the night. Because…

Donnie Davis was Tristan Jacobson’s guardian. She wanted to adopt the 9-year-old was by his birth mother. She could not afford the $10,000 in legal fees so Tristan took matters into his own hands. He began selling lemonade on the street. His little stand began to attract hundreds of generous customers…

Every year Americans take time to honor mothers with nice meals, cards, and phones calls home. While they are honoring their mothers, few people realize how much they really owe their moms. Though not all the figures are exact, the total is surprisingly large, especially for the millennial generation.…

A study conducted by the Josephson Institute of Ethics has found that the number of high school students who admit to cheating, lying or stealing has dropped for the first time in ten years. The survey is conducted every other year and includes a sample of 23,000 students from around the nation. The…

According to the Center for Disease Control, since 1999 the suicide rate increased about 1 percent each year before accelerating to 2 percent annually from 2006 to 2014. Suicide increased among all age groups. Besides economic troubles, the increased “social isolation” due to family breakdown and divorce…

Russell Moore and his wife adopted two sons from Russia and when the legal process was finally over and they went to pick them up from the orphanage the transition proved to be harder than they had expected. Their new sons had never been outside. They had never even ridden in a car. As they pulled away…

In Brooklyn, you can deal with the stress of adult problems with a mere $999. For that amount, Preschool Mastermind will sign you up for a five-week course where along with other adults you can “play dress up, sing Wheels On the Bus, and make Play Doh sculptures. You will spend your day with other professionals,…

China has created a problem. For years they had a one-child policy and as a result prospective parents aborted their child when they found out it was a girl. Now they have a shortage of women that rises to the level of a crisis. Zhejiang University economics professor Xie Zuoshi has a possible solution.…