Signs of an Authoritarian Parent: “It’s my way or the highway” It's characterized by rigid rules and high demands. Authoritarian parents have high standards and can be highly critical when those standards aren't met. They also tend to offer less emotional warmth compared to authoritative parents. You have little patience for misbehavior Authoritarian parents don’t [...]
Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important in determining who and what they will become as adults. Key Thought: The single most prevalent cause for disharmony within family relationships is a closed spirit. What is a Closed Spirit? “The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a [...]
Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important in determining who and what they will become as an adult. Key Thought: A biblical parent must consistently attempt to motivate their child toward godly behavior by supplying one or a combination of three basic motives: 1) the genuine love or compassion for [...]
Key Thought: Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important indetermining who and what they will become as an adult. Quick Review: Two main components of child training (‘paideia’) Direction—getting a child on course Direction is Teaching + Modeling + Reinforcement = Internalization (i.e. our child adopts our beliefs andbehavior as [...]
Key Thought: Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important indetermining who and what they become as adults. Preparing for Change (What you can expect): There is no quick fix. We want to see our children’s behavior improve as quickly as possible but we need to understand that these patterns did [...]
Key Thought: Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important in determiningwho and what they will become as an adult. Quick Review: Two main components of child training (‘paideia’) Direction—getting a child on course. Teaching + Modeling + Reinforcement = Internalization (i.e. your child adopting your beliefs and behavior as his own) [...]
Key Thought: Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important indetermining who and what they will become as an adult. Quick Review: The fundamental problem with any parenting approach centers on the issue of control. The battle forcontrol begins early in a child’s life. Control is power. Three Basic Parenting Approaches: [...]
Key Thought: Laying a good foundation during your child’s formative years is critically important in determining who and what they will become as an adult. Quick Review—The biblical parenting approach allows freedom within limits; the child is given control but on the parent’s terms. The amount of control given is determined by what the child [...]
Parenting Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Marriage “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him. Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior’s hands. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!” Ps. 127:3-5 Introduction: There is a widespread belief in every culture that children [...]
The American family is in trouble. Day after day we are bombarded with horrifying reports. Since 1960, divorce has doubled, teen suicide has tripled, and illegitimate births have quadrupled. One out of every four females is sexually abused before the age of sixteen. One and a half million babies are being aborted every year. Child [...]
