Parenting Tips - Christian Life Advice For Parents

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 09/22/2007 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.

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FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 09/21/2007 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 09/20/2007 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 09/19/2007 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.

FamilyLife.com's Parenting Tip for 09/18/2007 Verbally affirm masculine dress and appearance in your sons and feminine dress and appearance in your daughters. Compliment your sons when they dress up and wear a tie. Rave about your daughters when they wear a dress, or dress modestly. Young men and young women are hungry for affirming words as their sexual identities emerge. 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 09/17/2007 From now until your teen leaves home and moves on to adulthood, you will slowly relinquish control, and the child will increasingly not be at home. In the interest of keeping tabs on how your child is handling new challenges, consider recruiting a network of parents, teachers, youth workers, coaches, employers, and other observers who will feel comfortable in sharing information with you occasionally. If they see your child doing something or going somewhere that they know you would not approve of, they should feel free to call and tell 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 09/16/2007 Pray regularly for your child. Bring every concern, dream, desire about your child to God in fervent, persistent prayer. 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.