The Values Driven Child: Parenting with Purpose

The value of strength-based parenting

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Belonging to a culture offers people a sense of identity, feelings of connectedness, shared values, and support when faced with the challenges of life. Children will seek out a culture that is most present in their lives and that provides the most rewards. Simply talking about values is not enough.

You must express your family-value culture in all of the ways that your children can learn healthy values. Most important, you must believe deeply in and be wholly committed to your family-value culture. Everything you say, feel, and do, sends your children subtle, yet influential, messages about your values. The question of conveying values to your children is further complicated by the fact what you think you are teaching them is not always what they are learning from you.

This disconnect can occur because your actions may not always be clear to your children. This is why you should not only make sure you are living a life that expresses your values, but periodically ask yourself whether your actions clearly express the values or whether your children could misinterpret them.

Talking to your children about values can occur can in a spontaneous or structured way. Having your antenna up for these opportunities allows you to spot them immediately and use them to teach your children about values. You can also make value discussions a part of your family-value culture. For example, you might designate one dinner per week to the discussion of a particular value. Talking with your children about values and your family-value culture communicates to them that values are important.

It also gives them an opportunity to learn more about values. Emotions have a persuasive influence on whether children act in valued ways. Some experts believe that emotions, such as empathy and guilt, are inborn and serve an adaptive purpose by helping to ensure that people behave in ways that benefit themselves, their families, and their communities.

The Self-Driven Child

Some emotions restrain children from acting badly. Fear, for example, is a visceral deterrent that makes children uncomfortable when contemplating immoral behavior. Further, impart the importance of affection for fellow kinsmen and virtues of godliness. Basic values of a family are sharing, caring and being there for one another. Find out how to achieve these through holding family get-togethers, delightful vacations, and other fun activities.

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Perhaps the biggest benefit here is the fact that you learn how to create a prayer notebook. Many parents these days try to restrain the behavior of their kids as if they were animals. If you are one of them, Paul David Tipp challenges you to introduce godly values to your child.

After that, let him enjoy his or her youthfulness without the cultural stereotyping. This book is ideal for parents raising teens. Also, teachers, religious leaders and people in authority will benefit from the sensible advice. When you implement these strategies, your teens will avoid the dangers of the often turbulent transition into adulthood. This book delivers hope for all dysfunctional families.

It also instructs parents from diverse or conflicting cultures that they are not alone in bearing the burden of parenting. If you belong to this category, learn to trust God and allow Him to help your nurturing of Christian children. As the world becomes sophisticated, it is easy for children to be lost in all the confusion.

This resource reminds you that it is your responsibility to lead these children from bewilderment to righteousness. This applies not only to biological parents but also step parents. God created the first family with a grand plan in mind. More importantly, she urges women to make disciples out of the ordinary people under their households.

The author has a deep passion to motivate you to love and cherish your children properly. The book does not promise an easy ride for parents of this generation. It borrows teachings from real stories in the Bible. It is an easy read, thanks to its careful description of case studies.

In the end, you will comprehend the greater context of biblical teachings. Since a family is the smallest unit of the world, make yours as strong as possible. Charles Swindoll is one of the most experienced teachers of the Bible. Learn how to avoid sin in times of temptation and how to remain steadfast in the treacherous modern world. There are five devotionals that you should observe daily for 26 weeks. This observance develops a candid ability to respond positively when challenges threaten to break your faith apart.

Learn how to stand firm for the benefit of your family and your faith. However, not many people are blessed with this. You will obtain practical solutions to common childhood threats such as indulgence in alcohol and drugs, pop culture and destructive sexual awareness. The fact that these solutions come from actual stories in the Bible is worth noting. Ultimately, you will discard old methods of imparting Christian discipline and embrace effective strategies.

Growing Kids God's Way: The authors here are mother and daughter, who understand effective teachings from the Bible as far as parenting is concerned. Learn graceful steps of winning your children to Christ even if you think they are the worst rebels. The authors persist on the importance of grace as opposed to the mediocre observation of ineffective set of rules. Transform your children from being merely good to being actively graceful.

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This book deviates slightly from the theme of the aforementioned Christian books. It features unapologetically humorous yet true assertions that women must fight for their position in society. It arms women with fundamental weapons to wage the gender war in the unforgiving environment of the modern society.

You will be relieved of the burden of staying in the shadows of other people. Through Christian values of love, hard work, respect for all, self-esteem and grace, this book teaches contemporary women how to break from limiting stereotypes, self-pity, shame, ridicule, and guilt. Whitney is the distinguished author of numerous Christian books. In this one, he talks about the importance of assembling your family for prayer daily.

He maintains that God manifests Himself in a prayerful family. It is, therefore, ideal for any type of family from across all social classes.

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It underlines the power of transformative Christian hymns, Bible reading and meaningful prayers at home. As children grow up, they imitate the healthy habit and embrace them even as they enter adulthood. At the back of the book, find a carefully written guide for small discussion groups. Since God calls fathers to be the head of the household, men must embrace the responsibility head on. This author delivers direct guidelines on how you, as a man can shepherd your children, family, and community towards Godly values. Leading by example is the best type of discipleship. John McArthur draws inspiration from his life as a parent to pen a must-have resource.

All male parents will benefit from the straightforward instructions contained here. Learn what character qualities are best for your child and find out the best teaching methods. Do you find yourself thinking twice on how to best discipline your child? In the end, you will be a Godly father not just to your child but also to other kids in your community. Mark Batterson insists that you should teach your children fundamental life lessons before the world does. He draws advice from the Bible and constructs practical advice carefully.

Here, learn how to tailor-make prayer items to suit the needs of your family. Eventually, you will bring out individual talents, interests, and inspirations from all your children. In a straightforward manner, Elizabeth George emphasizes practical tips that mothers must always use to pass spiritual messages to their offspring. You will fall in love with chapter 10, as it summarizes top five prayer items for children- salvation, friends, purity, school, and church. The author lets you comprehend the fact that successful parenting starts with a healthy relationship with God.

Know what the gospel says about responsible adulthood then excel at it. After appreciating the need of a connection with your maker, learn how to practice valuable values at home.

Right from the day your child is born, you effectively pass on Godly attributes to him or her. Examples are daily prayer, forgiveness, humility, gratitude, faithfulness, love, and understanding among others. Do you think your children are struggling with sin? Here is an opportunity for you to help them turn towards righteousness. This book outlines more than sins that typical young people encounter regularly.

Parenting: Create a Family-value Culture

As it prepares you for the inevitable, it highlights approaches towards curbing the most common sins and misdeeds. Examples are lying, stealing, fighting and greed. You will find it a good read not just for counseling your own kids, but also guiding others in your extended family, neighborhood, and society in general. Experience is the best teacher. While it expands the roles of parents, it emphasizes Christian righteousness. Although the testimonies are personal, they apply to innumerable families in the modern era. After all, what your child is going through has already been experienced by other kids ahead of him.

Therefore, this is a practical roadmap towards winning your child to Christ. Discover the impact of disciplining your child, teaching about sin, the human heart, obedience, and the gospel of Christ. Let your child understand these facets of Christianity from the insights therein. This book provides solid Biblical foundations on which a child can establish his or her life.

This resource delivers these procedures without missing a point. Susan Merrill is a passionate mom. She dares to ask herself what she can do to help in times of disillusionment. Travel with her as she highlights the simple yet often confusing logistics of motherhood. Have you sometimes lost the passion for parenting? Through this book, you will reignite that spark and learn the Godly ways of protecting, teaching, loving, providing and guiding your loved ones. In the end, that spark might as well become a full-blown flame. These Christian authors bring their minds together to write a step-by-step parenting guide.

Write a letter to your child letting them know about the strengths you see in them and how these strengths will help them cope with challenging time as well as helping them to thrive during the good time. There are a number of online surveys that children can take to help them identify and think about their strengths.

The Gallup Institute has the StrengthsExplorer for children aged and the StrengthsQuest for children aged If parents and children are interested in identifying personality strengths, they can go to The Values in Action Institute and complete the free online VIA-Youth survey. It always helps to see how other parents and kids are using their strengths. Visit the The Strengths Exchange and discover how parents and children of all ages apply character strength to everyday. Respectful and valued relationships with teachers and the wider community are key to helping more students feel greater connection to their school, leading to far-reaching positive effects.

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