Parenting Tips - Christian Life Advice For Parents
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
11/03/2007
Ask your child: Do you think most young people consider the consequences of premarital sex before getting involved sexually? If they did, do you think they might choose to wait until marriage? Why, or why not?
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
11/02/2007
Ask your child: What would you do if you were at a party and some of your friends started drinking alcohol or using drugs?
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
11/01/2007
Talk with your children about God and His Word throughout the day, as a way of life.
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
10/31/2007
When a teen makes a wrong choice resulting in sin, whether it be drugs,
alcohol, sexual sin, cheating, rebellion, or some other sin, he needs his
parents to become God's arms of love to him, just as God loves us no matter what we do. He still disciplines us, and there is still a consequence for sin, but there is ample grace. Grace that accepts, cleanses, and motivates to do what is right.
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
10/30/2007
Let your children know that God has a special mission for their lives. He has gifted them with abilities, personality, and certain qualities that will help accomplish His plan. You can help them discover their unique gifts by encouraging them in the things that they seem to do well and feel passionate about. As they grow and mature, find creative ways to guide them in using those gifts for God's glory.
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
10/29/2007
For rewarding good behavior/penalizing bad behavior as it relates to sibling rivalry, try this: Put a designated number of dollar bills in a jar. Every time your children go to war and can't work it out by themselves, take a dollar out of the jar. Put a dollar into the jar when they go out of their way to be kind to one another or are able to work out a conflict. At the end of a designated time period, the children get to split what is left in the jar. If their behavior is so bad that the money runs out, then dip into their allowances.
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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for
10/28/2007
Although everyone has personal tastes in media, parents need to take responsibility for setting and maintaining media boundaries that are for the good of the entire family. The apostle Paul gives us a great media filter:
"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and
if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things" (Philippians 4:8).
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