Parenting Teenagers for Positive Results

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• Parenting Teenagers for Positive Results
• Practical Help for Parents of Preteens and
  Teenagers.
  
• Session 3
• Self Image Struggles

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Aims of Session

• Examine the roadblocks that hiner our childrens
  self-images and examine what we can do to help
  make a difference
  
• Discover how to build up a shaky self-image with
  biblical principles
  
• Help our teenager implement a new mind-set
  regarding their self-images by looking at Gods
  standards rather than the worlds standards.
  

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Can you remember?

• What did you look like as a teenager? What was
  your style?
  
• What activities were you involved in as a teen.
• What type of personality did you have?

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Beauty, Brains, and Bucks

• What are some ways culture subtly or not so
  subtly plays on your teenagers self-image in the
  area of beauty, brains and bucks?
  
• What are some of the negative images and how can
  you combat them?
  

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The Self-Image Questionnaire?

• Look at the questionnaire on page 24.
• Fill it out and discuss with your spouse or
  another parent

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Keeping up with the Joneses?

• How is the drive for beauty, brains, and bucks
  illustrated in this segment?

What About in your home?
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Going Deeper

• Building a shaky self image
• A Teenager involved in drug abuse, suicide
  attempts, or other self destructive behavior will
  not be functioning with a healthy self image
  
• How do we help create positive healthy self
  images.

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Negative self Image Cycle
How I think and feel about myself
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The Inferiority Cycle
Low View of Self
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In the Word

• 4 practical steps to helping your teen develop
  proper self-image.

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4 Practical Helps
1. Help your teens view themselves as God Does.

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Ephesians 210

• For we are Gods workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
  advance for us to do.
  

What makes Gods love for you and your teenager
so special?
How does God view you and Your Children?
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4 Practical Helps
1. Help your teens view themselves as God Does.

2. Accept Gods Forgiveness.
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I John 19 and Isaiah 4325
If we confess our sins he is faithful and just
and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
all unrighteousness.
I, even I am he who blots out your
transgressions, for my own sake, and remember
your sins no more.
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Forgiveness and self image

• How can embracing Gods forgiveness affect ones
  own self image?
  
• How is the opposite true?
• How do you struggle with forgiveness? Your
  student?

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4 Practical Helps
1. Help your teens view themselves as God Does.

2. Accept Gods Forgiveness.
3. Become other Centered.
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Albert Schweitzer

• I dont know what your destiny will be, but one
  thing I know The only ones among you who will be
  really happy are those who will have sought and
  found how to serve.

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Matthew 1624-25 and Philippians 233-4
How can focusing on the needs of others instead
of our own needs affect how we feel about
ourselves? How can we instill that in your teen?
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BE Specific

• How can you be other centered over the next
  month?
  
• How can your teenager learn to be other
  centered?
  
• How can you as a family be other centered in the
  next month

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4 Practical Helps
1. Help your teens view themselves as God Does.

2. Accept Gods Forgiveness.
3. Become other Centered.
4. Stay Healthy
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I Corinthians 1619-20
Fill in the Nutrition Chart on Page 32 of your
student book.
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Action Step!

• What is one SPECIFIC step you can take to help
  Build up your teenagers self image?

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• Parenting Teenagers for Positive Results
• Practical Help for Parents of Preteens and
  Teenagers.
  
• Session 2
• Attitude is Everything