How To Prepare Your Child for Life

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Subject Line: How To Prepare Your Child for Life

Dear (Insert name of parent),

There are so many things about life we need to know, and it helps us when somebody equips us for the road. One way to prepare your child for the road of life is to think about your tool belt before you think about what to put in your child’s.

In less than five minutes, we discuss this and so much more!

Click here for the video:

https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/394575322/ede4853941

We believe in you,

(Insert leader’s name)

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Subject Line: How To Prepare Your Child for Life

Dear (Insert name of parent),

So much of parenting is not within our control, but what is within our control is the freedom to go out and pursue our own life tools. As adults, we don’t have to wait for someone to equip us for life, we have the personal freedom to go get it for ourselves.

So today’s step is brave yet straightforward. We can accept responsibility for taking inventory of the life tools we have. Figure out what more we want, then plan how to get it. If you want to hear more of this, click the link for a short, encouraging video.

https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/394575322/ede4853941

Imagine your child at 35 as he/she looks at his or her children passing down what they were given. Can you imagine what it would look like if they have just a few more tools than you did? 

Proverbs 3:13 states, “Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding.” Collecting life tools is finding wisdom.

We hope this tip helps you just a little bit today as a parent.

Believing in you,

(Insert leader’s name)

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Video Script

Kid Video Script March 2020

Title: How to Prepare Your Child for Life

Welcome to this month’s online parenting class! Last class, we offered you ways to grow your confidence as a parent: understanding your story, your child’s story, and how God’s story connects them all. If you missed it, ask your Director or Minister to send it to you.

Today, we offer you a way to help prepare your child for life. This mission can seem simple, but when we break down into every day, the process can feel complicated or overwhelming.

Imagine everyone, including you, has a tool belt for life. When you were young, your parents or parental figures in your life put a “tool” in your tool belt to show you how to live life.

For example:

How do you manage money?

How do you learn how to date?

How do you forgive?

How do you cook?

How do you navigate emotions?

What’s important about marriage?

What are some good study habits?
How do you change a tire on a car? 

There are so many things about life we need to know, and it helps us when somebody equips us for the road. One way to prepare your child for the road of life is to think about your tool belt before you think about what to put in your child’s.

As you take a personal assessment of what is in your life tool belt, please know there is no perfect parent. EVERY ONE of us will have empty pockets. Some of us had parents who filled pocket after pocket of “life tools,” while others received very minimal. Either way, our parental figures or parents were only able to pass down what they were given, and whatever that is is not within our control.

What is within our control is the freedom to go out and pursue our own life tools. As adults, we don’t have to wait for someone to equip us for life, we have the personal freedom to go get it for ourselves.

So today’s step is brave yet straightforward. We can accept responsibility for taking inventory of the life tools we have. Figure out what more we want, then plan how to get it.

For example, let’s say you didn’t learn how to manage money. That’s okay, so many parents didn’t receive that tool. Where can you find wisdom and practical tips? Is there someone you admire who seems to manage their money wisely, not extravagantly, but wisely? Can you seek out Biblical advice from a mentor? A financial advisor? A legitimate, authorized company online?

This step requires intentionality, but it is worth it. Imagine your child at 35, looking at his or her child passing down what they were given. Can you imagine what it would look like if they have just a few more tools than you did?

Please keep it simple and start with one or two items. Because it is not possible to fill an entire tool belt, take your time evaluating. Ask the Lord for help. Once you identify a “life tool” you want, begin to look for a trusted and vetted friend, mentor, life coach, church member, teacher, website, or counselor for suggestions on where to start. 

Thank you for joining this month’s Online Parenting Class. If you want more classes, please ask your Minister or Director.

In our next class, we have a unique, online, guided prayer time where we don’t just tell you “how to pray,” but we will pray with you for your child, and if you think another parent would benefit from this encouragement, please share what you have learned. And remember…start small…what is one life tool you want to add to your tool belt? Go get it! We are cheering for you Parents.

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Imagine your child at 35, looking at his or her children passing down what they were given. Can you imagine what it would look like if they have just a few more tools than you did?

What is within our control as parents? We have the freedom to go out and pursue our own tools for life and then pass them on to our children.

One way to prepare your child for the road of life is to think about your tool belt before you think about what to put in your children’s.

Pursuing “life tools” is brave and straightforward. We can accept responsibility for taking inventory of the life tools we have. All we do is figure out what more we want, then plan how to get it.

How To Find Confidence as a Parent

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Subject Line: How To Find Confidence as a Parent

Dear (Insert name of parent),

Do you ever find yourself thinking: How is this going to turn out? Am I the right person for this job? Because there is no manual for your assigned parenting job, we want to encourage you as a parent of a child.

In less than five minutes, we discuss the above questions in a video. It is so short you can listen to it sitting in the drive-thru at Chick-fil-a!

Click here for the video:

https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/387500250/55132da187

We believe in you as the one God chose to raise your child.

(Insert leader’s name)

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Subject Line: How To Find Confidence as a Parent

Dear (Insert name of parent),

God could have picked any parent on the planet to oversee the life of your child- and He chose you. He doesn’t make mistakes. There is no error on His part. Because of this truth, you can be confident as a parent and a person.

The video gave some great tips to instill confidence in parents:

• Understand our Child’s Story
• Understand our Story
• Believe in His Story

If you missed the short, encouraging video, click here:

https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/387500250/55132da187

He says in Romans 8:28, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

His Story, one of love and pursuit, brings our Story as parents and the stories of our children together. His Story connects them all.

We hope you are encouraged today as a parent.

Believing in you,

(Insert leader’s name)

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Welcome to this month’s online parenting class! Last class, we gave you two steps on how to avoid pointless parenting. If you missed it, ask your Director or Minister to send it to you. This month we are going to give you three practical tips on how to find confidence as a parent.

Do you ever find yourself thinking: How is this going to turn out? Am I the right person for this job?

There is no manual for the parenting job. No-one has parented your child before this moment. You are navigating the unexplored corners of the parenting world where no man or woman has gone before. So if it feels uncertain and risky, you are in the norm. But we believe it is possible to have confidence in the uncertainty of it all.

The parenting world operates a lot like the branches of the US government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. From a young age, students in the educational system learn about how these three branches work together to lead a democracy- three components working together for a greater purpose. The parenting world is similar– three components simultaneously working together for a higher purpose.

The first component is Our Child’s Story. Our children have their unique talents, gifts, and personality. Although we have seen the majority of what they have experienced, we cannot say we have experienced through their eyes. They have a way of experiencing the world, that of which we cannot understand fully. Only Jesus has that role.

Our role is to understand our children are in their formative years while they are under our care. They are like a building under construction in a big city. The pedestrian traffic commute to work, walking by it every day, wondering what it will look like one day. The construction manager is overseeing the vision of the architect.

We, as parents, are the construction manager, and the architect, God the Creator, gives His plans and designs for our children. We don’t know what they will become or the final product of their personality, gifts, or talents, but we can be confident as a parent, God is unfolding our child’s Story one day at a time. We must also be careful not to assume we know how they will turn out.

The second component is Our Story. We can find inspiration and hope in knowing God is revealing the Story of our children, but He is also not finished with your Story. Yes, you. Ever before you had the role of a parent, you were you.

He was the architect designing and shaping your Story- your history, personality, past, present, culture, upbringing, etc. Your Story has a significant influence on your parenting journey.

When we intentionally invest in understanding and owning our Story, we offer our children a gift of grace: confidence that regardless of where we have come from or where we’ve been, we own our “whole” story, including the moments from heroic to heartbreaking. God is not done with your Story yet. He is still unfolding one day at a time.

The third component is His Story. The beautiful architect, creator, and mastermind behind this whole parenting world is the Lord who weaves our stories into His like a seamstress gently guiding the thread with her hand. He says in Romans 8:28, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

His Story, one of love and pursuit, brings our Story as parents and the stories of our children together. His Story connects them all.

He could have picked any parent on the planet to oversee the life of your child- and He chooses you. He doesn’t make mistakes. However you became you a parent, however, you were born into this world, however, your child was born, there was no error on His part. Because of this truth, you can be confident as a parent and a person. He is interlacing our stories with His.

Understanding the three components at play offers us the confidence we need as a parent to believe we are precisely where we are supposed to be, parenting our children in a God-made Family. You are the RIGHT PERSON for the job.

Thank you for watching this month’s Online Parenting Class. If you are interested in learning more about understanding and owning your Story, check our next class, “How to Prepare Your Student for Life.” Also, If you think another parent would benefit from this encouragement, please share what you have learned.

And remember… be confident…Believe God is unfolding your child’s Story, God is still unfolding your Story, and God’s Story brings your stories together.

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Parents are navigating the unexplored corners of the parenting world where no man or woman has gone before. No-one has parented your child before, so if it feels uncertain and risky, you are in the norm.

Our role, as parents, is to understand our children are in their formative years while they are under our care. To learn more, check your email for a short, encouraging parenting video.

Parents can find inspiration and hope in knowing God is revealing the Story of their children, but He is also not finished with their Story. To learn more, check your email for a short, encouraging parenting video.

His Story, one of love and pursuit, brings our Story as parents and the stories of our children together. His Story connects them all. To learn more, check your email for a short, encouraging parenting video.