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Parenting Tips
Parenting Tip # 121
Write down at least three things that you know will show your love to each of your children— then make them all happen as soon as possible.Growing a Spiritually Strong Family
Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 122
Regular hugs, kisses and hand-holding all say to your child (or teen), “you are loved.”Growing a Spiritually Strong Family
Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 123
It’s not words alone that communicate love to your children — it’s talking with them in a way that shows deep interest and a strong desire to be involved in their lives.Growing a Spiritually Strong Family
Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 124
Engaging in meaningful conversations with your child may be a challenge during the teenage years, but it’s more important at this time than ever.Growing a Spiritually Strong Family
Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 125
Make sure your children know that your marriage relationship is a priority. Establish a regular weekly date night with your spouse that your children will acknowledge and respect as your time alone.Growing a Spiritually Strong Family
Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 126
A parent with recharged batteries can lead a more purposeful family. Try to schedule two or three getaways a year. Two nights away from the children will not only give you time to remember why you married one another, but can become a spiritual oasis — a time of renewal and refreshment with one another and God. Single parents need this kind of break, too.Growing a Spiritually Strong Family
Copyright 2002, by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 127
Pray regularly for your child. Bring every concern, dream, desire about your child to God in fervent, persistent prayer.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 128
Pray regularly with your child. Hint: Two of the best times to pray with your child are on the way to school (assuming you drive him) and at bedtime—regardless of age. Pray with him for his future mate, relationships, activities, challenges, temptations and a heart for God. Don’t assume that even a teenager is too big for you to kneel beside his bed and stroke his face and pray.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 129
Before your child approaches adolescence, talk with your spouse about your convictions regarding dating, driving, jobs, grades, curfews, friends, and after school activities. Hint: If you don’t nail down your own convictions for your child ahead of time, your teenager and his peer group will establish their own.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 13
Teach your children the need to read and obey God’s Word.Raising Children Of Faith: Study Guide
Copyright 2002 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Group Publishing, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 130
Be involved in your child’s life. Hint: Involvement is more than driving the carpool and never missing a dance recital. Involvement means crawling inside your child’s head and heart to develop a relationship on the soul to soul, heart to heart level. Spend time doing things together that the child enjoys, have date nights with your child, and just hang out talking.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 131
Seize the window of training opportunity with your child—the eighteen months or so when your child is ten to twelve—to prepare him for the traps of adolescence. Help him through regular talks, Bible study, devotions, and real life examples to understand truth and develop personal convictions.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 132
Training your child effectively involves accountability. Demand to know where your child is, who he is spending his time with, and what he is doing at all times.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 133
During your child’s teen years, you may feel like you are losing ground. You may be working hard, pouring truth and your heart into your child, and yet one foolish choice follows another. The temptation is to feel that you have failed and to toss in the towel. Hang in there! Never, never give up! Perseverance is the parenting quality that helps you keep doing all the other important things—the praying, training, staying involved, and setting standards.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 134
Children need to be needed at home. They long for approval, for a deep sense of belonging, for importance, for order and security. If they don’t receive these things at home, they will seek them elsewhere.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 135
Use positive peer pressure to your advantage. Consider challenging one or two of your child’s friends to be a positive influence on your child while at the same time challenging your child to be a positive influence on them.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 136
Realize that maintaining control of those who influence your children is within the boundaries of authority granted by God to you as a parent (Colossians 3:20). Help your children to make wise choices of friends. Help them know how to determine the bad apples from the good apples, and make it more difficult for them to get together with those who look like bad apples.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 137
Make your home the place to be. Encourage your child to invite his friends over to hang out at your house. If all the apples are hanging out at your house, you can check out the quality of the fruit, then help to steer your child in the direction of the good apples.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 138
Get to know the parents of your child’s friends. Hint: One way to begin to get to know another family is by going to their home to pick up their child when he is invited to your house or by offering to take him home. It is in those times that you can gain some idea of their values, beliefs, and convictions.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 139
Help your child decide how he will handle peer pressure in advance. Talk out or role play different situations with your child, for example you can say to your child, “You are at a friend’s home. No one else is in the house. Your friend produces a pack of cigarettes and asks you to join him for a smoke. What would you do?” Do the same for possible situations involving other issues—alcohol, drugs, pornography, cheating, stealing, going to forbidden movies, sexual temptation, and so on.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 14
Children need to learn from your example and teaching what it means to walk with God. Strive to be a daily example to your child in word and deed what it means to be a Christian.Raising Children Of Faith: Study Guide
Copyright 2002 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Group Publishing, Inc.
Parenting Tip # 140
Be observant of your child. If you see subtle changes in dress, appearance, choice of friends, or attitude, find out what’s behind the change.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 141
When your child makes a mistake and succumbs to peer pressure, talk through the situation and gently help the child articulate in his own words what went wrong. Role-play the situation to help the child understand how a better choice could have been made. Although discipline may be required, balance it with forgiveness and encouragement. Being a young person is very challenging. He needs to know that you are on his side.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 142
Applaud your child’s good choices. When your child does make the right choice, put on your cheerleader outfit, grab the megaphone and go crazy: “Way to go! Give me a high five!”Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
Parenting Tip # 143
Be sure to provide abundant love at home. The best way to reduce the appeal of “the herd” (following peers) is to keep the pasture at your house green, lush, and tasty.Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
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