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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 02/24/2007 Since mutual respect is the foundation of all healthy relationships, how parents relate as a couple and speak to their children is the best model of the pleasing use of the tongue. If the parents speak respectfully to one another, they can then expect their children to do the same. 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 02/23/2007 If possible, through your church or perhaps with the parents of one of your childs friends, form an unofficial parenting partnership. Hint: Encourage the other family to monitor your childs attitudes, actions, and speech while in their home and to feel comfortable reporting observations to you. 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 02/22/2007 Make sure that your children are not so busy (with activities and commitments) that they do not have adequate time to play, rest, and just be with their families. This week, sit down and look over your childs schedule of activities. Determine whether you and your child need to make any adjustments. 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 02/21/2007 Ask your child: What are some of the consequences of premarital sex? How can those consequences change a persons life? 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 02/20/2007 Ask your child: What would you do if you were with someone who had been drinking and they were supposed to drive you home? 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 02/19/2007 Children need to learn from your example and teaching what it means to walk with God. Strive to be a daily example to your child in word and deed what it means to be a Christian. 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 02/18/2007 There are great benefits to interviewing our daughters dates. First, if your daughter knows in advance what you will be asking and is prepared for what it will be like, she will usually feel honored, protected, and loved. Second, because the interview takes place well before the date, dad can evaluate the young mans character in advance, giving you time to intervene when necessary. 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.