“Keeping Open Lines of Communication With Your Teenagers’ Parents”
Eph6
-The child’s upbringing in all areas rests on the shoulders of the dad!
- Communicate With Parents as a Group- Wise to have a meeting (“Hearts United”)
-Don’t bark at them/ Don’t teach them how to rear their kids/ Don’t rebuke them
- Be prepared to doubt yourself (II Tim 1:7)
- Have a spirit of humility
- Talk to your pastor about a subject you want to speak on
- Always run your outline and content by your pastor
- Share your heart
- Promote upcoming BIG activities and enlist the parents to help get the teens excited
- Get your parents as much info as possible about upcoming events
- Take prayer requests about teens
- Be careful of illustrations that you use
- Involve “non-Christian school” parents (public school/home school)
*you don’t want the teens to always cringe when you have a meeting. Sometimes you may want to ask the parents to wait a little while before dealing with a specific issue.
- Communicate Individually
- Never promise teens you’ll keep secrets
- Avoid one themed communication- not just problems but also progress
- Alert them to problems your seeing
“Whoever praises the child, controls the child.”
Pastor Terry Anglea
Faith Baptist Church | Bourbonnais, Il.
http://www.faith-bc.com/home.html
Pastor Terry Anglea