A collection of parenting skills and family enrichment for use at home.
This activity is intended to provide a way for families to gather, pray, and share their faith in order to deepen personal and family spirituality.
This article explores some of the typical needs, struggles, challenges, and joys of families with young adolescents.
This article explores some of the typical needs, struggles, challenges, and joys of families with older children.
Parenting skills for teenagers.
An in-depth look at families with adolescents.
During adolescence the parenting role begins to shift in major ways. As young people begin to take more personal responsibility for their own lives and grow increasingly independent, parents are faced with the task of restructuring their relationships with teens. Follow these guidelines to shift and strengthen a new relationship with your teen.
This activity provides a framework for families to interact with each other and strengthen family ties.
As children grow they develop a social calendar all their own. Trying to keep family calendars balanced and guarantee quality time for family relationships can be difficult. Adopt the tradition of special child nights as a way of building special parent-child time into your crowded family schedules.
Families are so busy these days that they don't have the opportunity to be together on a regular basis. Encourage your family members to decide on an activity in which everyone can participate.
One of the key roles of parents is to encourage and enable the growth of their children. Parenting by encouraging builds self-esteem through focusing attention on the child's resources. Use these strategies for encouraging the growth of your children.
A simple handout with some tips to help households communicate more effectively.
Parents and children often have different opinions on how family responsibilities should be shared or family policies enforced. A contract is simply a written statement of what your child agrees to do and what the consequences are if he or she accomplishes the goal.
Use this five-step problem-solving method called SODAS to think more clearly and base your decisions on sound reasoning.
Studies show that healthy families communicate well. This fact, by itself, is not exactly a new revelation. Common sense tells us that effective communication is necessary for families to function in a healthy way. Use this process for setting up family meetings in your home.
Use these guidelines for media use in your home.
Families today come in different sizes, shapes and configurations. Many children and youth live at least a portion of their lives in blended families, sharing their home with one biological parent, a step parent and a mixture of biological and step siblings. Use these guidelines for easing the adjustment of parents into stepfamily life.
Occasional conflict and disagreement are normal occurrences in family life. Collaborative problem-solving provides a means of handling the changes and disruptions that occur regularly in the family with adolescents.
Use this activity to reflect on and thank God for the special qualities of your family.
A ritual for families to use to experience reconciliation at home.
Use these ideas in your family to help make meal time an important time in your home.
This article explores some of the typical needs, struggles, challenges, and joys of families with young children.
This article exposes and dispels several myths about parenting young children and then suggest ten key beliefs and techniques for successful parenting and faith nurturing of young children.
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