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Preparation for Parenting
Preparation for Parenting (Along the Infant Way) is the first of a six part series that has gained national and international recognition for its immensely sensible approach to parenting a newborn. Coming with the applause of over two million parents and twice as many babies worldwide, Preparation for Parenting provides a prescription for responsible parenting. The infant management plan offered by the Ezzos, successfully and naturally helps infants synchronize their feeding/waketime and nighttime sleep cycles. The results? You parent a happy, healthy and contented baby who will begin sleeping through the night on average between seven and nine weeks of age. Learning how to manage your newborn is the first critical step in teaching your child how to manage his life.
Contact: phenderson@secc.org
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Babyhood Transitions
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Growing Kid’s Gods Way
GROWING KIDS GOD'S WAY (Along the Virtuous Way) 5.0 series is a comprehensive values-based parenting curriculum. In the title the authors, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo, place their emphasis on God's Way meaning the way of the Lord. We serve an ethical God. Moral rightness flows from His being. His moral law is a reflection of His holy character (Psalm 19:7). More than that, He has shown man what is good and what is required of him (Micah 6:8). Growing Kids God's Way can help any parent reach the heart of children with virtues and values that flow from the character of God and do it without stressing the child or the parents.
Utilized by more than 9,000 churches and schools worldwide and serving over 1.7 million households, there is a reason why this core curriculum is so popular: it's practical and the applications work. The curriculum is designed for small group studies or can be utilized by individuals in the privacy of their own home.
Topics include:
* How to help children internalize virtues and values and how to help them practically live out the character of God in their life.
* What parents do to foster insecure children and how they can fix the problems that might now exist.
* How to say "I love you" to your children and spouse in such a way that each member actually feels the full sensation of parental love.
* How fathers build or undermine their children's sense of trust and confidence in parental leadership and how to build family loyalty and identity.
* What is true character and how do you teach your children to love and prefer each other?
* You will learn how not to raise a moral robot" but a child with moral sensibility.
* Learn what true biblical discipline is and what are the principles of first time obedience.
* How to train right behavior into children so you will not have to spend unnecessary time correcting wrong behavior.
* How to successfully handle sibling conflict, temper tantrums, and the three sister sins: lying, cheating and stealing.
* How to instill that wonderful life-virtue of personal self-control and a sense of personal responsibility.
There are numerous examples, charts and teaching tools that assist the learning process along with a number of insightful appendices, each of which has helped internationally popularize the curriculum.
Supplemental sessions are also available that contain the teaching of Rejection: Man's Greatest Fear, Memorials, and How to Raise A Responsible Child. For the single parent and blended families there are additional supplemental resources available to help their unique needs.
Growing Kid’s Gods Way
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Growing Kid’s Gods Way for the Single Parent
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Growing Kids God’s Way for the Blended Family
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Middle Years
PARENTING THE MIDDLE YEARS (Along the Middle Years Way). Consider the example of the Chinese bamboo tree. Once the first sprout emerges from the soil, the rate of growth averages nearly two-and-a-half feet per day, culminating six weeks later in a ninety foot tree. What is even more amazing is the root system that sustains and nurtures this explosive growth. From the time the seed is planted, an extensive network of roots takes four years to develop before the tender bamboo shoot ever breaks ground and heads for the sun.
This is a good analogy of what is happening now with your middle years child. The growth in these years is silent, extensive and occurs mostly below the surface. Like the Chinese bamboo tree, your child is developing a supporting "root system" that will sustain and support him or her in the explosive growth years of adolescence. This is the time when you the parent must nurture, water and tend the "seedling" in your care. We want to help prepare you to meet that challenge.
The middle years, eight to twelve years of age, are perhaps the most significant attitude-forming period in the life of a child. It is during this time that the roots of moral character are established. From the foundation that is formed, healthy or not-so-healthy family relationships will be built. These are the years when patterns of behavior are firmly established patterns that will impact your parent-child relationship for decades to come. Rightly meeting the small challenges of the middle years significantly reduces the likelihood of big challenges in the teen years. In other words, the groundwork you lay during your child's middle years will forever impact your relationship even long after he or she is grown.
Included are discussions related to the eight major transitions of middle years children.
* How to create a family-dependent and not a peer-dependent child.
* How to lead by your relational influence and not by coercive authority.
* What discipline methods work and what methods do not work.
* How to recognize if your child is in trouble.
Included in this series is a healthy family profile test for parents and middle age children. Take it and find out how you compare with healthy families around the country.
Middle Years
Contact: phenderson@secc.org
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GEMS Fellowship Groups
GEMS® Fellowship Groups provide an opportunity to come together with other like-minded Moms for Godly encouragement in our roles as wife, mother and homemaker. GEMS® is the name CFH has selected for the fellowship groups that are sponsored by certified Contact Moms world-wide and it is an official Trademark name.
The groups are typically started when a Contact Mom is unable to personally meet with all the Moms she is ministering to. Plus, those Moms desire additional teaching, encouragement, answers to their parenting questions, and fellowship with other Moms who have taken the GFI parenting classes. GEMS® Fellowship Groups are a means to continue the discipleship for Moms who have completed the GFI curricula and/or "On Becoming..." series of books.
Mission Statement
To glorify God, to be daily witnesses for our Lord Jesus Christ, and to be help-mates in the raising of morally self-directed and Biblically responsive children through the shoring up of ourselves via fellowship with other like-minded Moms, encouragement, teaching, and timely answers to questions for Moms. GEMS® will also provide a continuance of the accountability provided in GFI classes.
The Key Verse of the GEMS® Fellowship Groups is I Peter 3:4:
"You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God."
For more information about GEMS groups in this area email Susan St. Clair at ssaint@bellsouth.net . You may also go to the Christian Family Heritage website for more information. http://christianfamilyheritage.com/gems.php .
Southern Indiana GEMS Fellowship Group
The GEMS groups provide an opportunity for moms to meet together for teaching, encouragement, answers to parenting questions, and fellowship with other moms who have been involved in the Growing Families International parenting classes. You are welcome to attend even if you have never taken any of the classes.
We will be meeting the 3rd Thursday of the month through May 2010.