Parenting Tips - Christian Life Advice For Parents

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/19/2008 Make your home the place to be. Encourage your child to invite his friends over to hang out at your house. If all the apples are hanging out at your house, you can check out the quality of the fruit, then help to steer your child in the direction of the good apples. 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 01/18/2008 Is your family life bogged down with activities? Try limiting your children to only two activities. When choosing activities for your children, take advantage of opportunities to build character. 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 01/17/2008 One of the most important areas in which a teenager needs training is in how to handle anger. Anger is normal and occurs in every human being. The problem is not the anger itself, but managing it. Teach your child to recognize anger when it comes, understand the cause, express it appropriately, and resolve it properly. Inappropriate expressions of anger include physically harming another, using words that threaten to bring emotional damage to another, or showing disrespect to a parent or other elder. 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 01/16/2008 Teach your children to love God with all their heart (Matthew 22:37). 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 01/15/2008 Volunteer with your child to work in a soup kitchen to feed the hungry, or some other outreach to the poor. Source(s): Copyright 1998 FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/14/2008 Write a poem for your child or take Psalm 139 and rewrite portions, referring to how God created him as special and unique, planning each of his days before he was even born. Source(s): Copyright 1998 FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 01/13/2008 Write down at least three things that you know will show your love to each of your children and then make them all happen as soon as possible. Source(s): Growing a Spiritually Strong Family Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.