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Parenting Tip # 201

Consider making the Sabbath a day of rest for your family. Some ideas might be to make sure your children get their homework done by Saturday night, and avoiding shopping or doing chores on Sunday. If the children want to listen to music, insist that it be Christian music, and limit phone calls and visits to family only. During the Sabbath try to enjoy naps, reading, recreation, and relationship building as a family.

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.