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Teaching Through Decision Making
Dealing With Fear After Tragedy
Your Child has a Conscience
The Conscience and the Holy Spirit
10 Questions to Evaluate the Strength of Your Child's Conscience
Kids Love Heroes
Don't Forget to Say Thank You
Caring for Others
Christmas, A Time to Teach Generosity
Be Careful How You Handle Your Child's Pain
Be Careful with Triangles
A Lesson in Honor
Servant For The Day
Recognizing Foolishness
Teach Kids to Make Wise Decisions
A Practical Way to Teach Responsibility
Get A Response
When Children Resist Instructions
When Giving Instructions, Consider the Timing
The Gratefulness Principle
Five Causes of Anger
Three Ideas for Good Communication
Should We Protect Them?
Learn to Recognize Emotional Signals
Correction's First Step
The Value of Training
It Seems So Routine
Teens Need Relationship
Building Relationship Makes Kids More Responsive
An Indirect Approach to Sibling Conflict
Learning from Natural Consequences
Teaching Children to Affirm in Conversation
"Crisis" Phone Calls
Envision a Positive Future
Use Generosity to Teach Honor
Talk to Teens about Character
A Fun Way To Teach Children to be Servants
Teach Children How to Listen
Help Kids Choose Solutions
Understanding Why We Get Angry
Lying: A Definition
Look Out For Boasting
A Successful Coaching Relationship with Your Child
Slowing Down the Emotion
The Good Side of Anger
You Don't Want to Raise a People Pleaser
Father's Day Honor
Dealing With Sarcasm
A Peacemaker or a Troublemaker?
Enjoying Your Child's World
Suggestions for Influencing Teens
Sad Instead of Mad
Does My Child Really Want Advice?
Building A Tape
It's the Hard Part of Being a Parent
Monitoring Frustration Levels
Heart Moments
It's Like a Bonsai Tree
What Your Child Treasures
Firmness Doesn't Require Harshness
Use Open-Ended Questions
Should You Give Rewards Equally?
It's Not Complete Without...
Should I Make My Kids Apologize?
It's Heart Work
Some Tips for Helping Kids Deal with Anger
To Reward or Not to Reward
Some Helpful Working Definitions
Anger Confuses Correction
A Three-Column Plan
More About Privilege and Responsibility
Let Children Learn From Life
Look for Ways to Make Discipline Positive
The Long-Term Benefits
Positive Conclusions
Angry Children Need Other Choices
Cost vs. Value
The Way You Give Instructions
Privilege Goes With Responsibility
It's Hard To Raise A Leader
Be Prepared for Resistance
Not Just Behavior Change
Instruction Builds Character
View Your Family As a Team
Emotional Cues
Taking Those You Love For Granted
Where A Bad Attitude Comes From
Stay Out of the Boxing Ring
Approximately Right is Worth a Compliment
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Parenting Tips
Parenting tips are from from the
National Center for Biblical Parenting
Dealing With Fear After Tragedy
Day to day life provides opportunities to teach children about God. It's the job of parents to frame the picture of world events, to help children understand life from God's point of view. Teachable moments become available in times of crisis. That doesn't mean that you preach or lecture. It means that you ask questions and carefully share information that can guide your children to right thinking.
So what do you say? How do you respond to their questions? How can you draw your children into productive discussions? What kinds of things can you do that will help your kids during this time?
Here are some things to consider when helping children deal with fear and questions about world events:
- Be careful about lying to your children by saying, It's all okay. Your children can see that things aren't okay. In fact, this kind of statement can be counterproductive and cause children to feel like they can't trust you, further increasing feelings of insecurity.
- Explain that the world isn't out of control and help put these events into perspective. Pray with your kids about those directly involved in the tragedy.
- God is with us always. We can trust him. His angels protect us. God loves us and cares for us and he is in charge (Psalm 46).
- Answer your child's questions. Explain the details briefly in clear terms and then focus on the good that we see in God and in the people who are helping.
- The solution for fear is to learn to trust. Trust is the ability to release control to another. Children can learn to trust when they take small steps of risk and have positive experiences over a period of time. Gently encourage children to take small risks of separation and then provide the comfort they need. During that process children need a lot of parental love, patience, encouragement, and support. Remember, it's God's presence that helps us through difficult times.
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Tips are excerpts from the following books authored by:
Dr Scott Turansky
Joanne Miller, RN, BSN
- Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes, In You and Your Kids
- Home Improvement, The Parenting Book You Can Read to Your Kids
- Family Heart Moments
- Parenting is Heart Work
- Treasure Hunters
Children's curriculum - Good and Angry, Exchanging Frustration for Character In You and Your Kids
- Eight Secrets to Highly Effective Parenting
CD series - Teaching Kids to Listen and Follow Instructions
Manual & CD - Single Parenting
CD series - Hero Training Camp
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