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Family Time: Parenting Teenagers

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

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  1. Family Time: Parenting Teenagers making the most of the years

  2. 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 & Cyberspace • teenage pressures Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  3. Review of the week Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  4. Session 3Built To Last Encouraging self-esteem Showing unconditional love Growing in faith Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  5. A. THE FOUNDATION OF INNER STRENGTH Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  6. Bible View “We dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God” 1 Thess 2: 11-12 Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  7. Building self-esteem “Your teenager needs constant reassurance that they’re special”

  8. Adolescence 1. Physical changes 2. Mental and emotional changes 3. Social changes 4. Sexual changes Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  9. Praise should be: 1. Specific, not general 2. Genuine, not patronising 3. About effort, rather than achievement 4. Straightforward, not comparing 5. Unconditional 6. About gifts, not bribes 7. Unqualified, not half-hearted. Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  10. B. THE BUILDING MATERIALS Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  11. Filling the emotional tank “A teenager is the most vulnerable person in society, and his or her deepest need is love” Ross Campbell Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  12. Bible View “The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love” Galatians 5:6 Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  13. The five love languages • Words • Time • Affection • Presents • Actions Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  14. A strategy for handing on responsibility • train them • teach them • warn them • protect them Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  15. C. A SECURE STRUCTURE Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  16. Bible View “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves...Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the head, that is, Christ” Ephesians 4: 14, 15 Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  17. Keeping God at the centre • How can we help our teenagers grow in Christian faith? • What role can we expect to play in these years? Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  18. Book of the Week Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  19. Discussion Groups Family Time Parenting Teenagers

  20. Taking it Further Family Time Parenting Teenagers

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