Parenting Resources

This resource section of our Website is designed to provide helpful information for parents, youth workers, instructors and anyone interested in the development of young people. We will add material regularly that we feel promotes sound, balanced, and Biblically based principles which we trust will be of help to those working with our youth.

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Playing the 'Dad Card'
Fathers, you may not realize it, but you matter more to your daughter than any other man. Why is that? Why is it so important to her future? And how seriously do you take this crucial responsibility?

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Help Your Child Refute Evolution
Here are some tips for helping your child deal with evolutionary teachings at school and everywhere else in society today.

School and the Feast: Tips for Getting Children Excused
If you have school-age children, then you probably have stories about trying to get them excused from school for the Feast of Tabernacles.

Today's Toys: Child's Play or Something Else?
It may be time to take another look at your children's toys.

Teen Sex: The Silent Epidemic That's Killing Our Kids
Sweeping the world, this silent epidemic is largely ignored by most Western governments—except for misguided programs that often make this devastating problem even worse. Most parents have little idea how bad this epidemic is, much less how to fight it—yet solid biblical solutions exist.

You Can Have Healthy Children—Here's How
What can we do to help our children adopt healthy habits as a way of life? Here are several proven ways to reverse obesity and ill health, starting your child on the road to better physical and mental health.

What Are Our Children Worth?
A far-reaching shift in attitudes toward children and family priorities has had dramatic and largely unforeseen consequences on our youth. What message are parents sending their children? Can it-should it-be changed?

Keys to Better Parenting
We have a choice: Either we teach our children good values or we abandon their future to chance. If we don't teach our children, somebody else will.

Parenting: The Terrible Twos? -or- The Terrific Twos!
With all the stereotypes about 2-year-old children, are there strategies that can make this year terrific?

"Let the Children Come to Me": Teaching Your Preschooler About God
Step by step, the process of teaching a child about God unfolds, as the Bible teaches us to talk about God's ways "when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up" (Deuteronomy 6:7, New International Version). But what does that look like in the home of a preschooler? And more importantly, what is the parents' goal in teaching their child?

Parenting and Your Child's First Year
It can be really hard to see the "big picture" when you're suffering from extreme sleep deprivation on top of a hormonal roller-coaster ride. But that's part of the job of being a parent. While you are in your first year of parenting, it's important to ask yourself, "What do I want my child to be like two, five, 10 or 20 years from now? What do I want my marriage to be like then too?"

Teaching Youth Religious Values
"And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart; you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up"

Teach Your Children With Family Bible Study
The most important responsibility of parents is to pass along their spiritual faith and understanding to their children. Here are tips for how to teach God’s words and ways to your children.

Successful Parenting Begins With The Brain
Parental attention in the forms of talking, smiling, singing, feeding and touching makes a significant difference to brain damaged children.

The Rewards of Reading Together
When family members read aloud together, lots of good things happen—including learning, laughter and love.

Teach Your Children God's Ways
Jesus Christ recognized that children must be included in the spiritual life of His followers. Are we teaching them to love God's ways and especially His Sabbath?

Bringing Up a Moral Child
Is proper child rearing a lost cause? What pressures do parents face, and where can they find help in bringing up children with proper moral values?

Child-Rearing Tips From the Ten Commandments
Many parents today are bewildered by the prospect of rearing children at the frenetic pace and with the conflicting messages of the 21st century. But there is ancient wisdom that can help.

Teach Your Children How to Pray
Teaching children to pray is a vital part of passing on our faith. It's important that our children learn that they can also go to God, our loving Father, who is there to help and strengthen them. He wants them to build a relationship with Him through prayer as well as Bible study.

"Quality Time" With Your Kids
We've all heard the term. It's bandied about as the magic, fix-all solution for busy parents with children. Is this true? If so, how can you insure the time you spend with your children truly is "quality time"?

Successful Parenting: What Makes It Work?
Many parents can find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to parenting. What biblical keys can lay the right foundation?

How to Comfort Your Children in Time of Need
A large part of growing up is facing difficulties, setbacks and disappointments. What can you do to help your children through those traumatic times?

Teach Your Children Godly Morals and Modesty
Satan is waging a cultural and spiritual war to destroy our children through sexual sins. Parents must protect and prepare them well!

Raising Kids in the Internet Age
Are you teaching your children how to navigate the Internet in a responsible way?

Time for School—Making Sure Your Child Gets off on the Right Foot
All parents worry about their children starting school, but Church members have the additional concerns about dealing with society’s holidays and getting off for God's Holy Days. What can a parent do to insure their child’s success? Here are tips from a Church parent who is also a teacher.

What's So Special About Families?
Some suggest a family should be redefined as any group of people living together in the same household, irrespective of blood connection or sexual orientation. But is such definition warranted? Before we throw away our traditional view, maybe we should consider what we would lose in the process.

You Can Win the War Against the Family
Modern pop culture is robbing children of their innocence while undermining their character growth by addicting them to random violence, filthy language and explicit sex. In spite of this subtle brainwashing, you can still win the war being waged against your family.

What Is Your Children's Future?
Is the future of our children left to chance and circumstance? Their future is in your hands more than you think.

Sermon Transcript: Seven Points for Child Rearing

Modesty: A Vanishing Virtue (Part 1)
Realizing the immense cultural pressure our members face in our modern world, this article is being provided as an introduction in educating our membership on the subject of modesty in dress. This article will focus on the pervasiveness of immodest dress in our society and the challenge this poses for those of us striving to live godly lives.

Modesty in Dress: A Vanishing Virtue (Part 2)
Last issue we looked at the pervasiveness of immodest dress and the challenges this poses for those of us striving to live godly lives. This article identifies godly principles to consider in our clothing and appearance as Christians.

How to Raise Good Children in a Bad World
Standards all around you may be slipping, but here are some principles to help you stay in charge of your child's moral upbringing.

"Generation @" Needs Godly Values in Space
You're likely scratching your head at that title or you may assume that it has something to do with NASA! Actually, it has to do with the Internet and something called MySpace, not outer space. This article examines an Internet phenomenon that's growing like wildfire, along with its pros and cons.

Passing on Our Faith to Our Children
Teaching our children about God and leading them into a relationship with God can be intimidating. Nonetheless, all parents have a responsibility to teach their children about God and His Word.

How Can We Pass Our Faith on to Our Children?
In a previous article we covered the basic reasons why we should teach our children about God. Now we'll look at the actual mechanics as well as a good general approach to instructing our children.

Teaching Values to Your Child: Making Wise Media Choices
How can we teach our children how to decide what music to listen to and which movies to see?

Our Children and Sabbath Services
We want our children to love and look forward to the Sabbath. We also want them to not distract other people too much at services. What are some tips in working toward these goals? What's the balance? How can others in the congregation help in what can be a very trying time for parents of small children?

Reading the Scriptures to Your Children
Why not take advantage of the incredible, spongelike learning capacity of our children to start planting the most important information of all—God's instructions—within them at a young age? Here are some tips on reading the Bible as a family no matter your children's ages.

Setting Limits for Your Child—Maintaining the Balance
The spectrum of parenting runs from very permissive to super authoritarian. How can we find the biblical balance that will benefit our children the most?

Encouragement—A Powerful Parenting Tool
This issue we focus on a foundational parenting principle—a priceless gift we can give our children that pays great dividends