Putting an End to Peer Pressure: A Teenage Guide to Self-Acceptance

By Teresa Carr

Putting an End to Peer Pressure: A Teenage Guide to Self-Acceptance

by Teresa Carr

It’s been said, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” The foundation of raising children starts in the home. The homes of a nation are judged by how that nation will survive and persevere. Conduct at home teaches children how to function in society. Growing up in America today is a lot more alarming than it was about twenty years ago. Back when I was teen life at school was just the reflection of things to come. Before I started elementary school the Congress had removed prayer from public schools in 1962. By 1964, as I entered school I had not known the right to pray or even know what prayer was. The only reference to God was the pledge of allegiance to the American flag until the pledge was no longer required to be recited at the beginning of class. It was because of a small minority didn’t want the pledge or prayer even spoken for reasons it violated their rights.

What this boils down to is that when prayer and the Bible was removed from the classroom things began to happen. The moral cavity began to break down and immorality rose to alarming numbers.

LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD, Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. – Habakkuk 3:2, NIV

©2007. Teresa Carr. Skyhouse Communications.

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