Parenting Teens - August 25, 2012

Day 9 - Home - A Place to Learn Good Relationships

Home is a place where teenagers learn how to build healthy relationships.

• Teenagers learn to relate through observing adult relationships • If parenting together, invest in your relationship (take our marriage course!) • If parenting on your own, build the best relationship you can with the other parent, when possible • Nurture other adult friendships • Mealtimes together – teenagers learn to talk, listen, debate issues, and respect others’ views • Regular family time – having fun together ias a family helps build relationships between parents and children and between siblings (consider having a weekly “family night”)

Question:
How can you intentionally model healthy relationships with others in your life, for your teenager to learn from?

Study Guide

More Messages Associated With "Family"...

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  • bedtime

–          important that children get enough sleep (see table attached)

–          bath time. story time, prayer time

–          provides natural opportunities to talk to and pass on our values to our children

–          sets in place channels of communication on every IeveI

  • emotional
  • physical
  • spiritual

Do your children get enough sleep?  Why?  What changes to routine might help?

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