Author and Salem Radio Talk Show Host, Larry Elder, delivers a moving and powerful testimony about reconciling with his father after years of not speaking to him. Larry’s book is entitled, “Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives… Eight Hours.” Larry also discusses the state of black men and race relations. The speech was delivered at BOND’s 7th Annual Conference on Fatherhood and Men in Los Angeles over Father’s Day weekend (June 19, 2016). For information about BOND — Jesse Lee Peterson’s latest book, The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood
Recent and increasingly sophisticated studies of the brain have presented startling discoveries to researchers on questions that have baffled science for generations. These advances have allowed us to understand so much more about why we do what we do.
The reason a book like this one is even possible is that new neuroscience techniques for studying the brain have proliferated over the past fifteen years. Relying on MRI technology and other scanning and imaging techniques, we simply know more about the brain now than we did twenty or thirty years ago.
Of course, we aren’t even close to knowing everything about the brain. In fact, the more we discover, the more we understand how complex the brain really is.’ Countless questions remain unanswered. But we do know enough to inform people in practical ways about a great deal that is happening in their heads and what to do with this new in-formation.
In previous chapters we have discussed much of this abundant new data about the brain. Our focus has been on the information that applies to connectedness, attachment, addiction, infatuation, love, sex, monogamy, marriage, and other issues related to our sexual behavior and our sexual health. The data indicates that sexuality and sexual behavior are a vital part of what makes us human—it is scientifically and behaviorally inaccurate to try to understand sexual activity as though it has no impact on the rest of what we are as human beings: our emotions, our health, our habits, and our nature. Sex is far too integral to who and what we are as persons to do this. We cannot separate the brain from the body. What our bodies do has a dramatic impact on our brains (and all that happens there, including emotions, and so on), and what we think in our brains will have a dramatic impact on our bodies and how we use them.
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…the most current research shows that people who have been involved in premarital and/or extra-marital sex have significantly added to their chance of having problems and significantly increase their risk of never achieving their potential for health, hope, and happiness.
Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., and Freda McKissic Bush, Hooked: New Science On How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children (Chicago, IL: Northfield Publishing, 2008), 133-134, 129.
(Above Video Description) This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Did you know today’s youth view sex as no more meaningful than a handshake? Did you know what they will often perform oral sex on a stranger they just met at a party but not kiss them as that’s too personal? That’s tame compared to a lot of what Lisa has heard in her 40+ years of experience of working with and raising kids.
Parenting should be Fun & Easy. Get all the hard work done when they’re little then relax & enjoy. Yes, there’s some tweaking during the teen years, but otherwise… easy.
My methods are based on 40+ years of experience of working with & raising kids. I use what works, not what people think “should” work. If the respect isn’t mutual, it’s useless.
Be the Fun Parent, not the Friend. What’s the difference? Parents discipline, Friends don’t.
I help parents find their Inner Leader so their children turn to them instead of their peers for guidance.
In this third part of the summer “Family Series,” Pastor Jackson touches on where the parent/child relationship excels and fails Biblically, giving handy Scriptural reminders and useful tools to inculcate these “weighty measures” place on children and especially parents.
Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers? Drawing on a sea of official data and his own upbringing, talk-show host Larry Elder shows just how important black fathers are in turning boys into responsible and happy men–and how their absence has had a tragic impact on millions of black Americans.
A listener to Dennis Prager calls in to ask for clarification about a topic from earlier in the week. I had to do with the roles in a family unit of a father and mother in relation to their children. As we creep towards Father Day I thought this would be an uplifting video for all the dads out there.
Representative Turner (R-Tenth Congressional District of Ohio) says this via his GaceBook: “Our service members should not be penalized for serving their country. We need to change the law. Watch how we can ensure the parental rights of our military families are protected.”
(From Flying Mag) Six-year-old Lainey Woodson never had an interest in flying, until her first flight on Oct. 5, 2012. The youngest of four, she was always scared of flying, unlike her older siblings.
On a clear October day, her family traveled out to York, South Carolina (01SC), to the grass strip for a picnic and an afternoon of fun. That’s when her father, Bobby Woodson, decided to duct-tape his GoPro video camera to his 1946 Aeronca Champ 7AC, in which he soloed on his 16th birthday at the same grass strip, and capture the wonderful moment of Lainey’s first flight. And her reaction, well, it speaks for itself. But it’s sure to remind you of that unforgettable feeling of what it’s like to fly.
