Family Time: Parenting Teenagers

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Family Time Parenting Teenagers

• making the most of the years

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Course Outline

• A Galaxy Far, Far Away
• the teenage universe
• On The Radar Screen
• teenage communication
• Built To Last
• teenage character

• Boundaries and Battlefields
• teenage tensions
• Security, Sex Substances
• teenage issues
• Consumerism, Cash and Cyberspace
• teenage pressures

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Review of the week
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Session 5Security, Sex Substances

• Health Issues
• Relationship Issues
• Addiction Issues

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A. HEALTH ISSUES
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Bible View

• Do you not know that your body is a temple of
  the Holy Spirit...You are not your own you were
  bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your
  body
• 1 Corinthians 6 19-20

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Eating disorders

• Warning signs
• obsession
• control
• isolation
• deception
• neurosis
• secrecy
• excessive behaviour
• binge-eating

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What to do as a parent?
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What not to do as a parent?
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B. LSD LOVE, SEX DATING
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The pressures

• Theres a battle going on for our
  teenagers minds if youre not influencing
  them, youre about the only person in their
  lives who isnt!
• Steve Chalke

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Bible View

• It is Gods will that...each of you should
  learn to control his own body in a way that is
  holy and honourable
• 1 Thessalonians 4 3-4

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Dont press the panic button!

• dont live in denial
• dont focus attention
• dont show anxiety
• dont deny their feelings
• dont leave them on their own
• dont be taken unawares

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• The slow drip-feed method is more effective
  than the one Big Talk
• Nicky and Sila Lee

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C. SAD SMOKING, ALCOHOL DRUGS
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7 Reasons why teenagers use drugs

• it makes them feel they belong
• its fun
• its easy to obtain them
• its the in thing to do
• it fills the emptiness
• it offers relief
• its cool to take risks

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• Teenagers need good life skills to help them
  make good choices

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Signs to watch out for

• eating habits
• change in appearance
• secrecy
• loss of energy/interest
• missing money

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Bible View

• Be very careful, then, how you live not as
  unwise but as wise...
• Ephesians 515

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Drinking and smoking

• Alcohol and cigarettes are gateway drugs
  ...alcohol abuse kills more people than all the
  other drugs put together. Paul Francis

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Thinking ahead about alcohol

• we need to help our teenagers handle it carefully

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Thinking ahead about parties

• work together and agree things up front

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Book of the Week
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Discussion Groups
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Taking it Further