{"id":100,"date":"2008-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-26T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T13:30:10","slug":"teenager-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2008\/02\/26\/teenager-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2008\/02\/297_33207.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2008\/02\/297_33207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Nathan turned 13 today &#8211; another step in becoming the man God intends for him to be.<\/p>\n<p>People say to us, &quot;You&#8217;ve already raised boys &#8211; John, Tom, and Ben &#8211; so you know what to expect.&quot;&nbsp; And in a sense that is true, but&nbsp;every child is unique.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken some time to prepare for being a teenager&#8217;s mom again by reading the excellent book, &quot;Age of Opportunity &#8211; A Biblical Guide for Parenting Teens&quot; by Paul David Tripp.&nbsp; And, at Nathan&#8217;s request, we&#8217;ve had a Bible study with him over&nbsp;the past 8 weeks, preparing him for&nbsp;some of the issues he will face as a teenager.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we go into this new adventure with Nathan with excitement &#8211; and great dependence on our God.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray that Nathan&nbsp;would continue to have a passion for God, and walk in HIs ways during these adolescent years, and throughout his lifetime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS:&nbsp;&nbsp;Check out the photo gallery for some pictures of Nathan.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the day &#8211; our youngest is growing up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}