Parenting Tips - Christian Life Advice For Parents

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 02/10/2007 During your childs teen years, you may feel like you are losing ground. You may be working hard, pouring truth and your heart into your child, and yet one foolish choice follows another. The temptation is to feel that you have failed and to toss in the towel. Hang in there! Never, never give up! Perseverance is the parenting quality that helps you keep doing all the other important thingsthe praying, training, staying involved, and setting standards. 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 02/09/2007 If you suspect that your child is involved in substance use or abuse, sit down and find out whats going on, then administer appropriate consequences. If the drinking or drug use persists, consider drawing up a contract clarifying the behavior you expect from him and what boundaries apply. If all else fails, consider calling on others to help with an intervention, perhaps asking another adult such as your youth pastor to help you confront your childs substance abuse, or consider seeking the help of a support group or rehabilitation program. 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 02/08/2007 The time to address anger in a child is not in the midst of an argument. You may need to give your teenager some time to cool off, and remind him to choose his words carefully. A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger (Proverbs 15:1). 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 02/07/2007 Create a missionary experience for your children in your own hometown. You can volunteer to serve a meal in a downtown church soup kitchen, or offer to clean up the yard of an elderly woman in your neighborhood, for instance. Source(s): Growing a Spiritually Strong Family Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 02/06/2007 Make special memories with your child. Plan and have family vacations, visit museums, parks, have picnics, get out old pictures and go down memory lane together, and so on. Source(s): Copyright 1998 FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 02/05/2007 Once a week for a month, send your child a special greeting card through the mail to let him know how much you love and appreciate him. Source(s): Copyright 1998 FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 02/04/2007 Make dating your child a regular practice. It's a great way to have fun with them, catch up on how they're doing, and to stay connected. Source(s): Growing a Spiritually Strong Family Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.