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Difficult Passage: Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” This article explains the common interpretations and encourages parents to disciple/shepherd their children
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Holding Hands, Holding Hearts Summary
Holding Hands, Holding Hearts is an excellent book teaching the Biblical principles related to dating. Brian Sayers has written this 10 page summary of Philip’s book.
Documents
Wait or Date - Student/Parent Assessment
Helpful for evaluating if someone is ready for dating or not. Use with teens or young adults deciding if they should date. Note: recommend not using Joshua Harris book listed here.
Books
Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids
Equips parents to begin a comfortable conversation with kids early enough to make a difference. Explains how porn affects the brain in ways kids can understand. Helps kids turn from pornography.
Podcasts
Adult Children and Their Parents
As children grow up and leave the home, the relationship between child and parent changes and develops in ways that can be difficult to navigate with grace and wisdom. Parenting, adult parents/kids
Podcasts
Biblical Parenting Essentials
Helpful teaching for Biblical parenting - gives essential principles on the family
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Every Woman’s Call to Work
Good resource encouraging women regarding the role of work, whether in the world or in the home, whether single or married. Good for parenting, marriage, singleness, and discipleship.
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Moms, You Are Not Enough: The Freedom of Depending on God
Explains how moms, whether single or married, are never enough on their own. All parents need to depend on God for their sufficiency in parenting their children.
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Biblical Grandparenting: Exploring God’s Design for Disciple-Making and Passing Faith to Future Generations
Gives a biblical overview of the role of grandparents, and shares research that will give students, pastors, and leaders a vision to impact the next generation for Christ. Parenting, Grandparenting
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Come Back, Barbara: A Father’s Pursuit of a Prodigal Daughter
Book offers invaluable lessons for parents and children at any age or stage-and for anyone with a prodigal loved one-showing how struggles may be faced with humility, courage, and hope. Parenting
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Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?
Help for parenting different kinds of prodigal kids: defiant, embarrassing, intellectual, lukewarm, and religious prodigals. Parenting
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How to Love Difficult Parents: Wisdom for a Challenging Relationship
Helps adults in their relationship with their parents, including financial strain, care for their home or their health, conflict related to care for the grandchildren,or destructive relational choices
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You Never Stop Being a Parent: Thriving in Relationship with Your Adult Children
Guidance for parenting adult children from God's Word, reminding you that your relationship with your adult child can only be as deep and meaningful as your relationship with God.
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The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
Learn how to build bonds of trust with your adopted child, effectively deal with any learning or behavioral disorders, and discipline with love. Secular author, but very helpful for parenting/adoption
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Helping Your Adopted Child: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Identity
This booklet offers help to challenges with faith as you teach your children their identity in Christ and their place in God's world. Adoption, parenting
Podcasts
After They Are Yours - Podcast Series
Podcast on adoption, giving help and encouragement to struggling adoptive parents. Parenting, adoption
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After They Are Yours: The Grace and Grit of Adoption
Resource offering help and hope to struggling adoptive parents, giving insight and encouragement for adoption and parenting.
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Keeping Your Cool: A Teen’s Survival Guide
Excellent book helping teens with their anger. Great for parenting teens also.
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Get Offa My Case: Godly Parenting of an Angry Teen
Book 2 offers practical specifics about parenting angry rebellious teens. Shows parents how to reestablish godly family leadership and helps them find the joy of the Lord, even if teen doesn’t change.
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Get Outta My Face! How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel
Book 1 of 2, Foundational principles & wisdom from Proverbs with practical directives that will make a difference in the life of you and your rebellious or angry teen. Parenting unmotivated teens
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Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
Great resource for parenting teens with lots of penetrating questions and exciting new discussions, that open the door to a teen’s heart.
Podcasts
Are You Parenting out of Fear?
As you parent, do your responses and reactions show a trust in the Lord, his promises and goodness? Key topics: anger, control, power, manipulation, fear, worry, anxiety
Web Pages
Parenting Adult Kids
Sermon audio on parenting adult kids.
Web Pages
Parenting Girls
Chris Hamilton sermon on parenting girls.
Web Pages
Parenting Boys
Sermon audio from Chris Hamilton on parenting boys.
Articles
Lift the Heavy Burden of Shame: How to Care for Parents of Prodigals
Article provides hope and help for parents of prodigal, rebellious children. How can the church help hurting parents? Shows us how to think about rebelling kids. Parenting help for teens/adult kids
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For Parents of a Prodigal: Hope through the Pain
Resource for parents of rebellious, prodigal kids. Parenting help when things look very bleak.
Web Pages
Hope & Help for Hurting Parents
Great resource to help parents of rebellious kids - parenting, counseling, prodigal kids…
Books
Child Proof: Parenting by Faith Not Formula
As an experienced counselor and an adoptive and foster mom applying the CCEF model of biblical change, Lowe uses Scripture to teach parents how to know their children and love them well. Parenting
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Talking with Your Kids about Jesus: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have
Prepares you for essential conversations about Jesus' identity, teachings, death, and resurrection---and the difference each one makes. Adaptable to any age. Parenting & Discipleship of children.
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Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
14 practical and gospel-centered principles to shape parenting including grace, identity, lies, authority, foolishness, and character. Great book for parents of kids of all ages.
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Peacemaking For Families
Great resource for marriage counseling, for parenting, for helping anyone to deal Biblically with conflict resolution. Features the 7 A’s of forgiveness and the PAUSE method of negotiation.
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Holding Hands, Holding Hearts: Recovering a Biblical View of Christian Dating
Teaches what the Bible says about dating as it explores God's design in creation, the relationship fallen through sin, and the relationship redeemed by God's grace. Singleness, Parenting Teens
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