Troubled Teens and Emotional Intelligence – Part 1

Troubled Teens and Emotional Intelligence, or the lack thereof – Part I (Parental Rights being taken away by the liberal elite in States like California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia).

Craig Rogers and Wendy Rogers, co-founders of Abundant Life Academy, helping Parents and Troubled Teens from “child right’s” States for 18 years, serving over 5,000 families and counting. Craig and Wendy write daily blog postings on the subject of restoring troubled teens and their family’s.  Craig and Wendy grew up in California and received their degrees from the California university system.  Both Craig and Wendy have parents who raised big families and stayed married for a combined 80 years (it would be more but both Craig and Wendy’s Fathers have passed away). The Rogers have four children of their own.  The Rogers have are phenomenal “life coaches” with decades of experience serving families, having received the very best professional training.  More importantly, it’s the failures, the adversities, and the struggles of the Rogers’ that have equipped them to be powerful catalysts in the healing and restoration process.  The Rogers stand on professional experience, education, and renewed faith lived through a series of hardships, setbacks, losses, betrayals, and disappointment. Being thankful for all that God has done, even in the hurt and pain, the Rogers share their faith in God, their practical experience, and the strong “earned” wisdom to other parents/families looking for hope in a tough world.

My name is Craig Rogers, and I am the co-founder and CEO of Abundant Life Academy. I welcome you to CraigStephenRogers.com and Abundant Life Academy, the Christian boarding school my wife, Wendy, and I, co-founded many years ago. Abundant Life Academy is branded as the place where everyone believes “Jesus is the only answer!”  What does that mean exactly?  Well, join us over the next couple of blog entries and I will diligently explain it. It’s much different than what you imagine.  I do not mean that you sit there and wait for Jesus to take matters into His own hands and do everything for us.  The truth is that its already been done, and its time to put His finished work into play.  Meaning, we have tremendous wisdom and knowledge to help guide our decisions.  We have strong principles and ways in which we are to live, in faith, that will have a huge impact on our own lives, and the lives of our children.  It’s the faith that we have all that we need, or the truth that we will receive all that we don’t have, which makes the difference.  We are abandoned, nor forsaken, and all that we face is for our growth and our preparation to minister to those who come after us.

If you are reading this it means that you are most likely a parent of a troubled teens and you live in California, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee, Wisconsin, or Illinois. Why do I mention these States as the most likely places you might be from? Many years ago we allowed extreme liberal thinking to slowly, but surely, strip our parental rights from us until the point where laws that were meant to protect children have turned to be their detriment.  In the name of “Child’s Rights” children in some of the most liberal States have gotten out of control, making horrible life choices and these choices are now protected as right’s.  Worse yet, their parents can’t do a single thing about it.  Abundant Life Academy has never denied a child their right’s, nor will they do so.  We don’t believe that a child has the right to use drugs, drop out of school, hurt themselves, have sex with whomever and whenever they please, or abuse others especially their parents.  In the real world if an adult “acts out” in bizarre ways there are many civil and criminal consequences, which are real, that greatly hinder a persons liberties, freedom’s, and choices.  Sometimes these consequences last a lifetime.  In the mind of many liberal social workers in California the parents do not have the right to “parent” a child in a way that the parent deems fit.  More specifically, parents are not supposed to force children to go to school, church, or to teach basic morals of personal responsibility.

Parents in California cannot physically prevent their child from having sex when they ever they please, or to give them consequences for getting drunk and staying out all night.  In one particular case a parent in California was investigated for possible child abuse for taking away their daughter’s cell phone.  She was 14 years old, lived in the Bay Area of California, where it had obviously became a “right” to have a cell phone and it was determined that when the parent took the phone away it was a form of mental abuse.  It was determined that the parent had caused mental anguish and undue strain and was ordered to provide the child with the cell phone.  Worse yet, the parent was responsible to pay for the service and was not allowed to monitor the callers in any way.  This also included the use of the Internet on the phone (text messages).  Unreal?  Unfortunately, not….  Abundant Life Academy NEVER enrolls children from States that have protected the parental rights of parents.  NEVER!  Meaning, the issues that lead a parent to enroll their troubled teen in a therapeutic boarding school might exist in “parent rights” States, but those parents have all kinds of “rights” (resources, options, and are able to use natural consequences to teach their child about becoming a responsible and accountable young adult.  As a matter of fact, in “parent right’s” States, the State insist that the parent raise the child! http://cli.gs/9L6UA

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