Parenting Information
A work in progress, here are some of the best resources on parenting we've found. Please let us know of additional resources we might list here.
Few things in life approach being as rewarding and challenging as parenting. Having kids changes everything! As has been noted suddenly there's a piece of your heart running around outside your body and as time passes outside your control...
Whether your a new parent or a seasoned veteran there's always plenty to learn. Even wise grandparents remain life ling students as they teach, pray for and counsel their children and grandchildren.
With so much at stake we can use all the help we can get. May God "grant us the wisdom to know the right, the will to choose it and the strength to make it endure" for generations to come. The following is a list of excellent resources we hope will be of value.
Parenting Helps
- Four Principals For Praying For Your Family: A brief introduction on what to keep in mind during when praying for our loved ones.
- Marriage Builders: His Needs Her Needs" is an excellent resource for divorce proofing a marriage, one of the best gifts parents can give themselves and their family.
- The Five Love Languages: Insightful study of the different ways we give and receive love. Excellent resource for couples and parents.
- Communicating with Teens: Tips and tricks by James Dobson, Ph.D.
- Fatherhood Series: Examining the vital role of fathers in a modern world.
- Motherhood Series: Examining the vital role of mothers in a modern world.
- ParentingCompus.com: Combining biblical truth with decades of research, Focus on the Family’s Parenting Compass uses Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets to provide a measurable way for parents to know how to raise preteens/teenagers to become strong, compassionate, mature, Christ-like and independent adults.
- Entertainment Reviews: Focus on the Family provides reviews on everything from TV and movies to video games and music.
- Teen Rebellion: Youth specialist Tim Sanford encourages parents to realize that children always do things for reasons. He explains that many times parents don't know the real reason behind a teen's behavior. He says, "God didn't make us random beings, so our behavior (even rebellious behavior) is stemming from a reason. It's important to get to the ‘itch' (core reason) behind the ‘scratch' (outward behavior or attitude)."
- Protecting Your Daughter's Purity: Looking at ways to protect our daughters from sexualizing messages from the media as well as we must examining ourselves to see if perhaps we have propagated this damaging message.
- True Love Waits: True Love Waits encourages moral purity by adhering to biblical principles. This youth-based international campaign utilizes positive peer pressure by encouraging those who make a commitment to refrain from pre-marital sex to challenge their peers to do the same.
- Disconnected: Your teens live in a MySpace® world with different sorts of challenges than you faced. In Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World authors, parents, and family experts, Chap and Dee Clark help you understand your teen. They describe how things have changed since you were a teenager and offers you ways to build your relationship with your teens while instilling in them the values they need to survive and thrive in their world.
- Do Fish Know They're Wet: As fish are unaware of being in water, many Christians are equally unaware how the attitudes of the postmodern culture they live in influences their lives. Compare a Christian worldview with other philosophies and learn how to make a difference in the world.
- Beyond Belief To Conviction: Distorted beliefs lead to distorted values, and that affects our attitudes and actions. Gain the tools you'll need to give your kids an accurate foundation. This comprehensive text presents rock-solid reasons to believe the deity and incarnation of God, the Bible and its reliability, the Resurrection, and provides the blueprint to live out those beliefs.
- Tech Support For Parents: Find out what's really happening in the virtual rec room. Check out some recent statistics: In one survey, 43 percent of teens with profiles on social networking sites and 32 percent of teens online reported they'd been contacted by strangers; 21 percent of these admitted to following up on the solicitation. Research in 2005 showed one in three 10 to 17-year-olds surveyed had been exposed to unwanted pornography, much of which included images of people engaged in sex acts or acting out in sexually deviant or violent ways. Roughly 6.8 million kids have been victims of online peer harassment. Almost 40 percent of the victims said they didn't tell anyone about the bullying.
- 12 Ways To Love A Wayward Child: Many parents are brokenhearted and completely baffled by their unbelieving son or daughter. They have no clue why the child they raised well is making such awful, destructive decisions. I’ve never been one of these parents, but I have been one of these sons. Reflecting back on that experience, I offer these suggestions to help you reach out to your wayward child. By Abraham Piper
- Setting Boundaries With Adult Children: If you have an adult child (or grandchild) whose life is one crisis after another and you find yourself constantly caught up in the drama, author Allison Bottke shows you the way out. Using the acronym S.A.N.I.T.Y., she encourages parents to take a tough-love approach in dealing with their dysfunctional adult children. Written by the author of the popular "God Allows U-Turns" series.
- Restoring Relationships With Adult Children: First article in a serious on handling the challenges of dealing with children as adults.
- Parenting: Grandchildren: Simple straight forward advice.
- Teen Challenge: Nearly 200 residential Teen Challenge centers across the USA provide care for people of all ages demonstrating a need for intensive help with life-controlling problems.
- Parenting Book Reviews From A-Z: Focus on the Family's long list of titles and reviews.