10 best decisions every parent can make

10 Best Decisions Every Parent Can Make

I listened to this audio with Bill and Pam Farrel on being intentional parents and they summarised the 10 best decisions every parent can make. Read summary below and listen to the audio here10 best decisions every parent can make

  1. Decide to be a proactive parent
    • Give your children to God & commit your parenting to God — go to God first when you wonder what to do. The Bible is a “treasure map” for parents
    • Repent and rebuild — if you didn’t experience good parenting role-models, you can change that legacy in your family
  2. Decide to be consistent
    • Outlast, out think, and out maneuver your child’s inborn bent to foolishness (Prov. 22:15)
    • Don’t give up on discipline & training even when you’re tired, pre-occupied, frustrated, or angry with your kids
    • Beware 5 negative traits — sensuality, rebellion, shortsightedness, laziness & selfishness
  3. Decide character counts
    • Kids need to be taught essential skills to experience success in life — spiritual, relationship, life skills & character qualities
    • Who teaches your kids is just as important as what they’re taught
  4. Decide to have a plan
    • Three main things kids need — being a learner, being a leader, and loving God
    • Make a contract — listing responsibilities, privileges, and consequences
    • “Summer celebration” — be intentional with family activities that reinforce values for your time — look back, look ahead, look deeper, and look for adventure
  5. Decide to be creative
    • Dad’s role is to engage a strong-willed child
    • Be united — Mom & Dad need to back each other up
    • Find the treasure — discover your child’s unique & special talents
    • Creative tools for the strong willed, spirited, or hard to raise child
  6. Decide to be a student of your child
    • Understand gender & personality differences
    • Find ways to celebrate your child’s unique personality & talents
    • Tools to bring out your child’s God given potential.
  7. Decide to partner with God
    • The role of prayer in unleashing potential
    • How to create a caring network around your child
  8. Decide to build a network
    • Find a group of parents you can trust
    • Some kids face unique challenges (eg…special needs, prodigals, etc) which will make finding their treasure harder to do
    • Learn to grieve your disappointments & heartaches. Give it to God
  9. Decide to trust
    • Teach kids to honor God with their lives/future
    • Teach your kids how to make trustworthy decisions
    • Make the transition — help your child transition into a responsible adult
    • Tools including relationship, driving, and education contracts for tweens ands teens
  10. Decide to celebrate
    • Spiritual gifts inventory
    • How to launch teens into college or adult world successfully

Culled from “The 10 Best Decisions Every Parent Can Make”. Based on the book by Bill & Pam Farrel. Learn more at www.Love-Wise.com

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