{"id":741,"date":"2006-10-12T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/12\/helping-teens-transition-to-college\/"},"modified":"2006-10-12T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T05:25:05","slug":"helping-teens-transition-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/12\/helping-teens-transition-to-college","title":{"rendered":"Helping Teens Transition To College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.togetherforthegospel.org\/2006\/09\/william_still_o.html\">stum\u00adbled upon<\/a> this quote today: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEvery autumn I have a spate of let\u00adters from fond par\u00adents, teach\u00aders, guardians, and mon\u00adi\u00adtors, appeal\u00ading to me to fol\u00adlow up on such and such a young\u00adster who is away from home at col\u00adlege for the first time, and who has to be hunt\u00aded, fol\u00adlowed, shad\u00adowed, inter\u00adcept\u00aded and dri\u00adven to Chris\u00adt\u00adian meet\u00adings. I have scarce\u00adly ever known this des\u00adper\u00adate tech\u00adnique to work. I under\u00adstand the pan\u00adic of par\u00adents and guardians, but it is too late then to try high pres\u00adsure tac\u00adtics. Prayer, exam\u00adple and pre\u00adcept, in that order, are the means of bring\u00ading up chil\u00addren and young folk in the faith. Nor will high pres\u00adsure tac\u00adtics and brain\u00adwash\u00ading tech\u00adniques avail when young folk have gone off on their own. Some young folk, alas, will have their fling and sow their wild oats, and come at last to heel, sad\u00adly, like the prodi\u00adgal son. It is where Chris\u00adtians pathet\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly put their trust in exter\u00adnal tech\u00adniques and arti\u00adfi\u00adcial strat\u00ada\u00adgems that young folk go astray. Noth\u00ading takes the place of the real\u00adism of holy liv\u00ading and secret wrestling before God in prayer for our young\u00adsters. We must com\u00admit them to God so utter\u00adly that we dare not inter\u00adfere or tam\u00adper with their pre\u00adcious souls.<\/p>\n<p>(William Still, late Pas\u00adtor of Gilcom\u00adston South Church, Aberdeen, Scot\u00adland)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stum\u00adbled upon this quote today: Every autumn I have a spate of let\u00adters from fond par\u00adents, teach\u00aders, guardians, and mon\u00adi\u00adtors, appeal\u00ading to me to fol\u00adlow up on such and such a young\u00adster who is away from home at col\u00adlege for the first time, and who has to be hunt\u00aded, fol\u00adlowed, shad\u00adowed, inter\u00adcept\u00aded and dri\u00adven \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/12\/helping-teens-transition-to-college\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cHelp\u00ading Teens Tran\u00adsi\u00adtion To Col\u00adlege\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-bX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}