Parenting Tips - Christian Life Advice For Parents

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 03/31/2007 When a child experiences conflict in his relationships, look for opportunities to coach him to bring about resolution and reconciliation. Role-play how to handle anger and confess inappropriate anger. 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 03/30/2007 A pure and blameless life is a powerful example. If parents have major flaws or compromises in their lives, such as smoking and substance abuse, the children will see them and may imitate that behavior. Determine to present your children with the highest model possible for them to replicate. 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 03/29/2007 Before your child approaches adolescence, talk with your spouse about your convictions regarding dating, driving, jobs, grades, curfews, friends, and after school activities. Hint: If you don't nail down your own convictions for your child ahead of time, your teenager and his peer group will establish their own. 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 03/28/2007 Talk about how special he is in front of others. (Be sensitive not to embarrass him.) Source(s): Copyright 1998 FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 03/27/2007 Ask your child: If someone were encouraging you to do something that might lead to trouble, what would you do? 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 03/26/2007 Have daily devotions and / or weekly family nights with your children. 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 03/25/2007 Try going on a television fast as a family. Pull the plug, and don’t watch TV for a week or a month—whatever you decide as a family. Instead, spend time playing family games, talking and building family relationships, reading and so on. You may find that the benefits to your family are so great, you may not feel the need to ever plug the TV in again! 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.