Heart Focused Parenting Belinda Letchford

#77: If you have older teens, or young adults living at home then you want to listen in today as I talk about a key parenting strategy that will help your young adult child move into adulthood well, but it will also help you make the transitions you need to as a parent.  If your young adult is living at home you need to have what I call a Rites of Passage conversation.  Listen in as I explain it and give you the words to say.
 
Transcript:  Have This Important Conversation When Your Child Becomes An Adult
This conversation will help you navigate chages in parent-child dynamics when your child becomes an adult.
 
Further Reading/Listening: 
Supporting your Teen and Young Adult Children as a Mentor:   Parenting changes and becomes more like mentoring as our children grow older and become teens and young adults. Are you making the shift?
 
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#76: Today we're talking about three words that changed my parenting: love, mercy, and grace. As Christian parents, we are probably very familiar with those words. But do we let them change how we parent?
 
For full transcript: 3 Words that Changed my Parenting 
 
Further Listening
What does it Mean to be a Christian Parent:  The truth about Christian parenting isn’t in the things we teach our kids but rather in how we respond. Do we respond as followers of Christ?
 
Pursue Peace in Your Heart and Home: When we pursue the things of peace, our choices reflect Christ's righteousness and our right standing with Jesus, brings joy and peace every day.
 
How to be Calm, Gentle and Positive Towards your Children Every Day:  5 keys mindsets for parents to be calm, gentle and positive. When you change your beliefs you change your actions. You can be a gentle and positive parent.
 
Coaching:
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#75:  Feelings of inadequacy can stop Christians from sharing gospel with children.  Learn to distinguish conviction from condemnation and how to be in a place where you can confidently talk to your kids about Jesus.
 
For full transcript: I’m a Christian, but feel Inadequate to talk to my Children about Jesus
 
Further Listening: 
Jesus is our Example as we Disciple our Kids:  Jesus gave us the 'Great Commission' and that includes our children. Our Children need to Meet Jesus - and We Should Make the Introduction:  As Christian parents we want our children to love Jesus and follow God’s word so we have to be wise in how we teach our children about sin and mercy and grace.  
Coaching:
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Are you tired of feeling like you have to do it all to be a "good Christian family"? We are very quick to judge ourselves as not doing the right things, or not doing enough things to be a good Christian family.  This is a false standard.  What is a good Christian family anyway!  Our goal should be to create a space where our children grow in their faith and in their confidence to be who God made them be, our goal needs to be peace and harmony in our home - not just copying what other Christian families do.  When we know what is important to us, we can find the right way to make that happen in our family.  But we have to remember, every family is different. And trying to keep up with the Christian Jones’s is never going to work!
 
For full transcript: Stop Doing All the Things Good Christian Families are Doing
 
Further Listening: 
10 Ways Parents make Parenting Hard - Harder than I has to be: We can make it harder than it has to be by the habits we get caught up with but you can catch yourself and start responding differently. Pursue Peace in your Heart and Home, and have a Good Day: When we pursue the things of peace, our choices reflect Christ’s righteousness; our right standing with Jesus, brings joy and peace every day. 3 Little Changes that will make a Big Difference in your Family Life:  Sometimes it is the little things that we can change in our family or parenting that will make the biggest difference.  
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#73 As Christian parents, we all want our kids to know Jesus - and Easter is a time to create meaningful spiritual moments for our children, but we often get overwhelmed by chocolate and other things.  In this episode, I’m talking about the importance of planning how you will approach Easter with intentionality and faith so that your children can grow in their knowledge and faith of Jesus Christ and all He has done for them. As an intentional parent - you need to start thinking about this now.
 
For full transcript: Preparing Your Family for a Faith-Centered Easter Celebration
 
Free Download:   Easter Heart Booster (Jelly Bean Story and Easter Faith based prompts)
 
Further Listening/Reading: 
Celebrating Easter is about Jesus - are you Ready to Talk to your Kids?  (podcast/blog)
Our Children need to Meet Jesus - and We Should Make the Introduction (podcast/blog)
Easter Lessons for Older kids (blog only)
 
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#72: We all dream of a family home overflowing with love, laughter, and fun.  And yet the reality is daily chaos and trying to balance all the things we have to do along with teaching and training our kids!  This week I’m sharing a journaling moment that changed my heart, changed my perspective which in turn changed our family - way back when my kids were little.  I don’t know about you but for me the Holy Spirit has a way of taking a Bible verse that I am very familiar with and making me really think about it, and and question whether I am living it out.  That’s is what I’m talking about this week. A Bible verse that changed how I engaged with my kids.  Listen in.
 
For full transcript:  Parents are you Cultivating a Family Culture of Love and Caring?
 
Further Listening: 
Building a Relaitonship with your Child will Lead to Friendship Later: It is important not to get relationship and friendship mixed up as we parent our children. We start with a relationship and enjoy friendship later on.
Being a Good Mum isn't about Getting Everything Done Today:  A busy mum tries to do all the things and finds she can’t. Follow these 5 principles and find balance so you can focus on what is important.
Five Things Parents can do to Help their Child Feel Secure: When our children feel secure they are more confident to engage with their world - learning and growing as they do.
 
Coaching:
Get one-to-one help with coaching.  Start with a free Jumpstart session   see details
 
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