Hal Young's Blog, page 69
February 4, 2010
We're on "WSAU Feedback" with Pat Snyder
This morning, Hal and Melanie are special guests on"WSAU Feedback" With Pat Snyder on 550AM in Wausau, Wisconsin from 10-11 am CST. Tune in if you can! WSAU
Appearing on "KSAL Morning News" with Rich Alexander and Jeff Garretson
This morning Hal and Melanie are on "KSAL Morning News" with Rich Alexander and Jeff Garretson in Salina, Kansas on 1150AM at 8:10 am (CST). Tune in if you're in the area or click "on air" and listen online at: KSAL.
February 3, 2010
Hal and Melanie on WGRC-FM
Join us on The Tom Roten Show!
We'll be on The Tom Roten Show just after 8:00 am EST today! Find us on WVHU AM800 in Huntington, WV.
February 1, 2010
Write it Down! More Freebies and Contests in our Raising Real Men Release Celebration
A few years ago, I wrote an editorial piece on things homeschoolers didn't do well. We've all heard about stunning victories by homeschooled students in the National Geography Bee, the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, science fairs, essay contests, and goodness, even the Heisman Trophy. Isn't there anything homeschoolers find challenging? some might ask.
Well, there are a few things. One I've heard from college instructors is that homeschoolers, for all their great academics and...
January 30, 2010
Whatever Happened to Growing Up and Moving Out?
At the reception following Max's bar mitzvah, the 13-year-old's father raised the toast, "Today you become an adult … yeah, right." Everyone laughed, including Max, but clinical psychologists Joseph and Claudia Allen found the contrast between the traditional ceremony and the modern reality very pointed. Their book, Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old, looks at why teenagers seem to be backing away from adulthood so often that the...
January 29, 2010
Help for Teens – For Free!
Several years ago, it occurred to us that maybe the teenaged years didn't have to be full of anger, rebellion, and sullenness. Just because we went through it or saw it in our friends growing up, does that mean it has to be that way? Is that what you see in the Bible? Through history?
I think more and more people are discovering that a lot of that storm and stress is cultural. There's no question that teenagers have different needs than their younger siblings: they're going through...
On the Radio in Houston
Good Morning, Houston!
You can hear Hal and Melanie live on 92.3 "The Eagle", WETX-FM, bright and early Monday morning! We'll be guests on "OutCast Radio" with Don Campbell in the 7:00 to 7:30 am segment and you can listen online here!
January 28, 2010
The Countdown Continues – With More Gifts!
As a writer and freelance journalist, probably 90% of what I do is on the computer – research on the Internet, interviews via email, writing on the word processor, number crunching with spreadsheets, promotion on Facebook. If you go in a college classroom today, you'll find laptops have replaced notebooks, professors' websites have replaced handouts, and a student who isn't fluent with standard programs and specialized applications is in for a hard, hard time. In fact, eleven states require...
January 27, 2010
Welcome to Our Party! We've Got Freebies and a Contest for You!
"Boots and Saddles!" the cry rings out and the Youngs come running. We have long used the old cavalry call to tell our children to gather up, it's time to "ride out" (get in the van and leave 
. I can't even remember where we first heard it or when we first started using it, but it's only one of a myriad of quirky things that we do just because we're Youngs.
We long for our children to serve Christ. We want them to share their hearts with us and to follow us as we follow Christ. We believe...
