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Overview

Use this 13-session parenting course to discuss how to raise healthy, happy, God-centered children. This course looks at how we can strengthen the parent-child bond, gain confidence in our parenting, develop friendships with other parents, model self-confidence, and raise countercultural kids. It also covers how to lovingly discipline our children by using natural consequences, having realistic expectations, and setting a good example.

Week 1 - Loving Discipline
How can we discipline our children with unconditional love?

Week 2 - Raising Counter-Cultural Teenagers
Does “Christian youth” need to be an oxymoron?

Week 3 - Fear Factors in Parenting
What to do with parenting fears.

Week 4 - Friendships That Benefit Parenting
How do friendships help us to be better parents?

Week 5 - Parenting Together
Refuse to let your differences divide you.

Week 6 - Model Self-Confidence for Your Kids
Move your children from being self-focused to being God-focused.

Week 7 - The Ground Rules of Discipline
Why it’s important for parents to allow children to experience the natural consequences of their choices and behavior.

Week 8 - Great Expectations
How to raise or lower the bars we set for our children.

Week 9 - Responsibility Super Models
Responsible kids begin with responsible parents.

Week 10 - Replace Whining with Respect
How can we teach our children to obey without arguing or whining while still leaving room for communication and appeal?

Week 11 - Teaching Responsibility Doesn’t Have to Be a Chore
The value of teaching our children to work.

Week 12 - Mentoring Youngsters Toward Adolescence
Laying tracks to avoid the runaway train of adolescence.

Week 13 - Creating a Stronger Parent-Child Bond
Why is a strong parent-child bond important to passing on our faith to our children?

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