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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/05/2008 As your child grows older, teach him to make sound, wise decisions in planning so that his schedule is balanced and not overloaded. Knowing the mechanics of time management and how to keep a schedule is helpful, but what’s more important is knowing how to operate from a biblical mind-set, how to form important personal values, how to evaluate the cost involved with any choice, and how to analyze options and make a good decision. This may be the best inoculation to prevent chronic busyness. Source(s): Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/04/2008 Help your child decide how he will handle peer pressure in advance. Talk out or role play different situations with your child, for example you can say to your child, “You are at a friend’s home. No one else is in the house. Your friend produces a pack of cigarettes and asks you to join him for a smoke. What would you do?” Do the same for possible situations involving other issues—alcohol, drugs, pornography, cheating, stealing, going to forbidden movies, sexual temptation, and so on. Source(s): Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/03/2008 Your influence plays a large role in your children’s capacity to love others and to develop meaningful relationships. Strive to be a good example of God’s love as you relate to and interact with others. Source(s): Raising Children Of Faith: Study Guide Copyright 2002 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Group Publishing, Inc.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/02/2008 Ask your child: Do you think it is necessary to have a boyfriend (or girlfriend) while in your pre-teen or teen years? Why, or why not? Source(s): My Heart Belongs to Him-My Identity. Copyright 2001 by FamilyLife Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years. Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/01/2008 Ask your child: What is your favorite song? What is the singer teaching by his words? What is the main message of this song? What is it teaching you about life? Relationships? Sex? How to handle conflicts or problems? Based on your answers, would you say that this choice of music is a good or poor choice? Why? Source(s): My Heart Belongs to Him-My Identity. Copyright 2001 by FamilyLife Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years. Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 12/31/2007 When your child is having a bad day, you can help to make things brighter by praising him for something he did right. Source(s): Raising Children Of Faith: Study Guide Copyright 2002 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Group Publishing, Inc.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 12/30/2007 Help your child avoid compromising situations with the opposite sex. Train your teen to keep his distance from situations that could tempt him to make wrong choices. Set guidelines for your teen to follow, such as not allowing him to entertain someone of the opposite sex in his bedroom, not allowing him to entertain while you are not at home, and so on. Source(s): Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.