Mark Vander Ley provided a Christian point of view on developing boys into men when he spoke with Lon Woodbury on Parent Choices For Struggling Teens on LA Talk radio.com. Beginning with a comprehensive description of the problems boys have to deal with in today’s culture, he discussed how Christianity offers a time-proven approach to transforming boys into men with great relationships and positive discipline.
A Brief Biography
Mark Vander Ley is a Clinical Supervisor at Chaddock School in Qunicy, Illinois. He has actually authored 2 ebooks readily available on Amazon: “Stuff Dads Say” and “Parenting Peace.”.
How does a Christian Perspective on Growing Boys Into Men Cope With The Boy Crisis In America?
There is a subtle yet severe dilemma faced by men in the United States. Social researches have revealed that kids raised without biological dads– 24 million in number– are more likely to have psychological difficulties resulting in mood disorders and behavioral issues. The discussion focused on the particular obstacles dealt with by Christian parents when raising boys to become well-balanced men in a dysfunction social climate.
Jesus, said Ley, is the perfect and ideal man because he represented many worthy qualities of what it is like to be a capable man: besides physical strength and tireless enthusiasm, he was also a man of knowledge, and he expressed gentleness, flexibility, self-control, and honest leadership. By contrast, the confusing cultural picture of a man in the US today is somebody is egoistic and aggressive.
Becoming an honorable man had little to do with gaining success at the expense of everyone else. Instead, it had more to do with growing wiser and more mature. Men like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, pointed out Woodbury, were great examples of the sort of man Ley was portraying. They were highly talented, yet remarkably self-controlled.
One trouble fathers face when trying to raise Christian men in today’s hedonistic culture, Ley said, is that we now appear to live in a post-Christian culture. In the past, Christian morality was an indispensable thread in the fabric of the culture of the United States. Yet nowadays, those who still hold Christian beliefs and values now appear to be in conflict with extreme materialism, provocative sexual imagery, and lazy parenting. While it was natural for teen boys to rebel, either through acting out or embracing another religion, it was essential for mothers and fathers attempting to raise kids in a Christian house to be willing to discuss issues in an open way with their child rather than over-reacting.
Numerous other problems were thoroughly covered throughout the hour-long interview about a Christian perspective on raising boys into men, including a much more accurate definition of what it means to spare the rod and ruin the child, what parents can do to impart life-supporting values and what was the best way to instill self-control and inner strength. Ley also talked about what Christian mothers and fathers could do to help their child cope with the consequences of negative choices.
Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens has recorded the entire interview on L.A. Talk Radio show for people to enjoy at any time.
