Family Time: Parenting Teenagers

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Family Time Parenting Teenagers

• making the most of the years

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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

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Review of the week
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Session 3Built To Last

• Encouraging self-esteem
• Showing unconditional love
• Growing in faith

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A. THE FOUNDATION OF INNER STRENGTH
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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

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Building self-esteem

• Your teenager needs constant reassurance that
  theyre special

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Adolescence

• 1. Physical changes
• 2. Mental and emotional changes
• 3. Social changes
• 4. Sexual changes

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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.

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B. THE BUILDING MATERIALS
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Filling the emotional tank

• A teenager is the most vulnerable person in
  society, and his or her deepest need is love
• Ross Campbell

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Bible View

• The only thing that counts is faith expressing
  itself through love
• Galatians 56

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The five love languages

• Words
• Time
• Affection
• Presents
• Actions

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A strategy for handing on responsibility

• train them
• teach them
• warn them
• protect them

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C. A SECURE STRUCTURE
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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

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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?

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Book of the Week
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Discussion Groups
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
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Taking it Further