This is a continuation of a discussion of some basic parenting strategies that are particularly well suited to helping your kid develop Character. As you will see in later columns, you can use these techniques to focus on a particular Character-istic or all of them as the situation allows or need requires. Anticipate it. Character can be fostered in your …
Presentation to Spring Station Middle School PTO
Just got back from a really enjoyable visit with the folks at Spring Station Middle School (http://www.wcs.edu/sstms/). If you haven’t seen the Summit High School/Spring Station Middle School campus, it is this new, beautiful, modern school complex out in the rolling pastures of central Tennessee! Unfortunately for me, it is WAY down south in the county while my office is …
Fostering Character Develoment in Teens: The Basics, pt 1
To become a person of Character, teens require guidance, encouragement and accountability. They need help identifying fundamental values. They will need your help recognizing when and how to put these values into action. They need help holding to these values when personal desires or pressure to compromise threatens to lead them astray. (They need to know what “astray” is.) What’s …
Home As A Training Place
This was week 2 of being a part of the church service at Trinity Church (www.trinityspringhill.org). This week Mack used Proverbs 22:6 to frame the discussion of the importance of training kids to be happy, loving and responsible adults who truly know God. He focused on the importance of intentional parenting in fostering honesty; genuine, emotionally intimate relationships; benevolence and …
Home as a Safe Place
Mack Strange (with the gracious tolerance of the good folks at Trinity Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee invited me to sit in on their service over the next several weeks as Mack talks about the importance of the home as a place of safety, training, trauma recovery and spiritual growth. My role was to say some things about what parents …