family time: parenting teenagers making the most of the years
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Family Time: Family Time: Parenting Parenting TeenagersTeenagers
making the most of the years
Course Outline1. A Galaxy Far, Far Away
the teenage universe
2. On The Radar Screen
teenage communication
3. Built To Last
teenage character
4. Boundaries and
Battlefields
teenage tensions
5. Security, Sex &
Substances
teenage issues
6. Consumerism, Cash &
Cyberspace
teenage pressuresFamily Time Parenting Teenagers
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Encouraging self-esteem
Showing unconditional love
Growing in faith
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
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
Building self-esteem
“Your teenager needs constant reassurance that they’re special”
Adolescence
1. Physical changes2. Mental and emotional
changes3. Social changes4. Sexual changes
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Praise should be:1. Specific, not general2. Genuine, not
patronising3. About effort, rather
than achievement4. Straightforward, not
comparing5. Unconditional6. About gifts, not bribes7. Unqualified, not half-
hearted.Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
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
Bible View
“The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love”
Galatians 5:6
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
The five love languages
Words Time Affection Presents Actions
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
A strategy for handing on responsibility
train them
teach them
warn them
protect them
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
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
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
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Discussion GroupsDiscussion Groups
Family Time Parenting Teenagers
Taking it FurtherTaking it Further
Family Time Parenting Teenagers