Parenting
Parenting can be hard yet rewarding at the same time. Below are resources to help parents through the difficult, to encourage, and to equip in raising children in a God-honoring way. Explore the wealth of resources in relation to parenting in this theme.
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25 Ways to Provoke Anger in Children
Anger is a unique emotion and one of the most referenced emotions in the Bible. As parents striving to raise our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, we are provided many opportunities to teach, model, and instruct our children in this principle. The context of this article will encourage parents to examine themselves first in how they can avoid provoking their children to anger (Col. 3:21).
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The Emerging Adult Podcast
Our young people transition into adulthood gradually and with assistance. In this episode of Breaking Bread, Kathy Knochel explains the role community plays in this process. She highlights the responsibility that is ours and equips us with the tool set needed to get the job done.
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Teaching Our Children: What God is like? Webinar
Our perception of who God is has a large impact in our life and the lives of our children. In this webinar, Brian Sutter walks through practical ways to help parents set up a framework for a healthy image of God within the lives of their children. Learn more on how to share both the proper information and experiences to support this healthy understanding by watching this webinar recording.
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The hope for these questions in this article is to encourage you to slow down and engage in meaningful dialogue with your child or children. Visit this article to see a list of questions you can ask your child to help you see into your child’s heart so you can grow in relationship with them and direct them toward truth.
Shaping Your Child's Sexual Character
As a parent there are few topics more unsettling to discuss with your child than sex. There are often many questions that arise for both parent and child when it comes to this topic. Finding the right answers often starts with asking the right questions. Additional resources on this topic can be found here.
Shaping Your Child's Sexual Character
This article attempts to identify important questions that parents need to consider when thinking about shaping their child’s sexual character. Read MoreShaping Sexual Character In Our Children Podcast Episodes
This two part podcast series frames up this task by giving parents five areas of focus: beliefs, values, needs, skills, and supports. Learn More
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Learning to Tell Myself the Truth
This course attempts to help participants learn how to recognize, evaluate and correct unhealthy self-talk. It is designed for a participant to walk with a mentor through skills that will teach a participant how to speak truth to themselves.
Enroll TodayEmotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the aptitude a person has for identifying their emotions, regulating them and wisely acting in accordance to their purpose. Individuals with high EQ are more likely to have satisfying relationships. Fortunately, emotional intelligence is not fixed. Rather it can be cultivated and grown. This course attempts to do just that.
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Identity affects us all very directly. Yet, often much goes without our notice. This course is designed to help you see the role identity plays in your life and how you can more healthily walk in light of it.
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One of the great privileges we have as Christian parents is to point our children to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. One of the ways we can engage this calling is through reading and teaching the scriptures. These resources are meant to be a help in this process.
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Parenting will be hard at times. Unfortunately, dealing with challenging times without a plan can stress the fabric of marriage and family harmony. Therefore, having a solid understanding of how to approach challenges and working on this plan is important. Reaching out to others for support, avoiding extreme reactions, and practicing engagement and intervention early in the process can all be important strategies to remember while working through parenting challenges.
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Parenting styles center around two core factors – responsiveness and demandingness. Responsiveness is a parent’s ability to recognize a child’s needs or desires and respond to them. Demandingness refers to a parent having expectations for how a child should act along with appropriately engaging the child when those expectations are not met. In general, the most desirable parenting style is being high in responsiveness and high in demandingness. It is important to remember that every child is different, and responsiveness and demandingness will look different with any given child. You can learn more at the resources below.
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Children, while resilient, are affected dramatically by the environment around them. A loving, secure environment will lead to healthy attachment to parents while a chaotic environment can lead to a variety of issues. By creating a healthy bond with our children, parents will help them develop the skills needed to be able to relate to others in a healthy manner for their entire lives.
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Parents play an important and noticeable role in their child’s physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual development. They have a God-given responsibility to be caring and corrective to their children as children learn many things through the daily interactions with their parents. When asked by researchers, children consistently name parents as primary influencers in their life. However, God has also created humans to be resilient, and children can do well despite their parents’ mistakes. God’s grace and healing is infinitely more powerful than our positive or negative parenting approach. This gives us hope and courage as we engage in the opportunity of parenting to the best of our ability while also trusting God for his provision.
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