Comments on: Kidults (Part 3): Ruining Our Lives With Fun

by: Kiki

Thu, 29 May 2008 22:07:02 +0000

What I really want to know is how do have a balance of resposibilty and fun? I know some teenagers who take being responisble to highly and never relax and our always stressed because they feel like they have to always work work work. But on the other hand I know teens who are always wanting to have fun and don’t take on any responsiblity and are always getting into trouble that way. So how do you have a balance of each side, and is it even necessary to have balance?

by: Anne MacMillan

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:57:16 +0000

Great article! I have always been concerned about the work ethic among teenagers and as a mother of 4 I have always tried to incorporate physical work days into our family. As you say, life is not all about having fun and goofing off. If we constantly indulge our kids we rob them of a very important life lesson.
Thanks,
Anne
http://www.tacklingteens.com

by: Carlin N.

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:01:40 +0000

That last picture really made me laugh! ( :

by: angela paules

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:03:53 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you>>> I as a parent needed this wake up call and the encouragement to put these principles into effect. Especially when society is telling my three children its all about material things and fun.

by: Elisabeth Gruber

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:03:23 +0000

Excellent, excellent, e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t post! This is such a big issue for me… my worst fear is that when I am all grown up and look back at my teen years, and see I wasted it on just having fun…or that I did not prepare well enough for my future and for life…

~Elisabeth Gruber

by: Ariana Felix

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:31:59 +0000

I am in total agreement with this. I believe that the teen years are to be spent getting ready for your future.If you don’t now, you will have wastd so many precious years.Great blog!!!

by: Tara Marie

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:13:01 +0000

Awesome post, y’all! This is definitely a prevalent issue in our culture, one that we as Christians should definitely watch out for. Thanks for the reminder/challenge to do hard things.

by: Mark Saline

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:20:03 +0000

This was an awesome post. I have been coming out of my shell slowly as I enter my highschool years. My life is filled with paper work, but it’s not horrible. I love reading and writing. It’s who I am. With the promise that I’ll become a writer one day I continue to invole with such activities… Sadly, I still have the difficulty talking to others. I’m just too shy (past experiences). My social skills were killed after years of error, and my speech isn’t the greatest tool in the world. Instead I tend to write to communicate.

by: Lydia McGaughey Sherman

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:37:13 +0000

Yes, our family, during homeschool years, once investigated the origin of “fun.” From the old 1828 dictionary, it derived from the word “foolish.” The word “funny” came from “fun.” Just researching it made us realize how ridiculous it was. The Bible talks about how youth will “pay for it” in the end, when they choose to have fun. Even youth is capable of being serious about life. Their lives are as fragile as any age, and could be snuffed out at any moment. Therefore it is important that they live seriously. They can enjoy the normal things in life–the day, the weather, the celebrations, the joy of living, without casting all care to the wind and living with abandon. We were taught in the 50’s by our parents to remember God at every moment and not to get too silly or lose ourselves in the moment of foolishnes.