Guiding Your Child’s Spiritual Development
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Influence On Teens Encouragement
Friends Ministers Teachers Siblings Mothers Fathers 2
George Barna
Influence On Teens Influence
Friends Ministers Teachers Siblings Mothers Fathers
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Caroline Hoxby If Families Matter Most, Where Do Schools Come In
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Family variables
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Caroline Hoxby • Comparing educational attainment, family exerted 19 times greater impact than school input and 24 times greater impact than neighborhood variables. • In total, family accounted for 9 to 11 times as much variation as school inputs and neighborhood variables combined.
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Youth Asset Builders • • • • • • • •
Family Support Parents as Social Resources Parent Communication Parent Involvement in Schooling Parental Standards Parental Discipline Parental Monitoring Time at Home Search Institute
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Influential
Resources
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Leading Teens To Christ
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What Parents Want for their Kids All Parents • Happiness • Good Finances • Good Families • Good Citizens
Christian Parents • Christians • Attend Church • Morality
Kingdom Parents • The Kingdom as a Priority • Families Dedicated to the Kingdom • Reach the Ends of the Earth Parenting with Kingdom Purpose
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What Parents Want for their Kids Do you want your teens’ level of Christian (Kingdom) commitment to be the same as yours? What would it mean for California if the next generation had only our level of commitment?
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Parenting with Kingdom Purpose
Two Families Eli Why, then, do all of you despise My sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have
honored your sons more than Me,‌ 1 Samuel 2:29 (HCSB)
Joshua Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15 (NASB)
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Deuteronomy 6:5 5
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. (HCSB) 13
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 6
These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
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Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (HCSB) 14
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 6
First, get these words into yourselves.
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Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (HCSB) 15
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First, get these words into yourselves. 7
Then get them into your children.
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Parents & Faith • Only 6% of teens consider their religious beliefs very different from their mothers. • Only 11% consider their faith different from their fathers. Soul Searching. p. 34
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Deuteronomy 6:7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (HCSB) 18
National Longitudinal Study #1 Factor in Keeping Teens away from “At Risk” Behavior
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National Longitudinal Study Four Optimal Times for Connection
Dinner
Sit in your House
After School Walk by the Way Bed Time
Lie Down
Morning
Rise Up 20
Deuteronomy 6:8-9 8
Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.
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Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, (HCSB) 21
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Luke 2:52 24
Teens Keep Parents’ Faith When Parents…
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Teens Keep Parents’ Faith When Parents…
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Family Devotions
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Christian Parents’ Commitment 3
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Things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us. We must not hide them from their children, but must tell a future generation the praises of the LORD, His might, and the wonderful works He has performed. 29
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He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children so that a future generation— children yet to be born—might know. They were to rise and tell their children 30
Christian Parents’ Commitment so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep His commandments. 8 Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God. 7
Psalms 78:3-8 (HCSB) 31
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