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Family Time: Parenting Teenagers. making the most of the years. Course Outline. A Galaxy Far, Far Away the teenage universe On The Radar Screen teenage communication Built To Last teenage character. Boundaries and Battlefields teenage tensions Security, Sex & Substances teenage issues
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Family Time: Parenting Teenagers making the most of the years Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Course Outline • A Galaxy Far, Far Away • the teenage universe • On The Radar Screen • teenage communication • Built To Last • teenage character • Boundaries and Battlefields • teenage tensions • Security, Sex & Substances • teenage issues • Consumerism, Cash and Cyberspace • teenage pressures Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Review of the week Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Session 6Consumerism, Cash & Cyberspace Media Money Internet Family Time Parenting Teenagers
A. THE MEDIA & CONSUMERISM Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Bible View “Whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much...” Luke 16:10-12 Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Our teenagers as consumers • Our teenagers are told that they are defined by outward labels “Take away my mobile phone and you take away a part of me” a teenager Family Time Parenting Teenagers
B. MONEY & DEBT Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Bible View “...if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you” Proverbs 22:27 Family Time Parenting Teenagers
A strategy for handing on responsibility • train them • teach them • warn them • protect them Family Time Parenting Teenagers
C. GITS – GAMES, INTERNET, TEXTING, SURFING Family Time Parenting Teenagers
G.I.T.S. • the attraction • the obsession • the concerns Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Bible View “Do not love the world….” 1 John 2:15-16 Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Book of the Week Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Discussion Groups Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Taking it Further Family Time Parenting Teenagers