Parenting
The Pornography Revolution
At the end of last year I lead a class discussion on the topic of Internet pornography (I teach at a private Christian school in southern California). As we discussed openly with each other, a young man sitting in the back became noticeably disturbed by the conversation, which was evident by his body posture and lack of eye contact. He stayed after...
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Spark A Conversation
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Do You Know Your Child?
How well do you know your child? Most mothers really know...
3 Destructive Thoughts
You know there’s some lines of thought that are so destructive when it comes to parenting. Destructive line of thought #1: I’ll work hard now and be able to play later. One line of thought is this: Well I’ll work hard now and be able to play later. You know what? That’s a delusion. I’ve hardly ever met a business man or woman who...
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What They'll Never Forget
You know a way that will help you to be creative in spending time with your children that they really enjoy and leaving memories, is something I did. I never did much with my father because he was always drunk. I was more embarrassed with my father than I ever was happy with him. And so when my children came along, I literally would think this way,...
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Do Special Things for Your Children
If relationships equal time and time equal relationships, then be creative in spending time with your kids. Unusual situations that will give you the freedom to talk. Now I’m just going in a few segments share with you some of the things I’ve done. Now remember, I wasn’t creative enough to come up with all of this. I stole them from other people....
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Be Original and Unusual
You know, I often said that if we’re going to impact our children, we need to spend time with them. And one of my philosophies is when you spend time with them, have fun! Do in-ordinary things, do things that other fathers wouldn’t do. Some examples of what Josh has done are: Picked his children up from school in a horse and carriage Sat...
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Think & Perceive
You know if we’re going to impact our kids for Christ, we need to know only share spiritual things with them, look for spiritual opportunities to step in and minister to them, to answer their questions, but we need to create opportunities to see how they think, how they perceive things. Now you might think this is pretty bad, but I thought it...
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Father’s Love
Greatest security of a child today is knowing their father loves their mother and they will not divorce. Here are ways I showed this: What I always tried to do was to find everything I could to reinforce my love to my children’s mother in their presence. For example, I think every time it came to Christmas or anniversary or birthday, I’d...
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>> Watch the other videos from the Creative Parenting series How do young people spell love? T-I-M-E. They did a study of 300 7th and 8th graders. They wanted to find out how much time does a 7th and 8th grader spend in a meaningful conversation. In other words, in a conversation that is not just meaningful to the father but to the child....
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