Parenting

Parenting poses many challenges - but it also offers great rewards.

Recent research from the USA shows that fathers who have a Christian faith are the best fathers! (See the 'Fatherhood' page).

But we still often wonder what we need to do to be a good parent.

The Bible gives an outline of how we are to act in all circumstances - and that includes how we treat our children.

This page will provide some resources to help you be a better and more effective parent.

Practical Parenting Top Ten List
This list, by Jeffery Hill, is a great resource of helpful ways you can relate more effectively to your children. From expressing affection to reading with them; from giving them choices to filtering what they watch; this is a really helpful list of things you can do to be a better parent. In fact the author couldn't limit it to just ten, so there are fourteen!

Christian Parenting 101
An eight-lesson online Christian parenting course - with lots of practical examples.
Worth a look!

MomSense.com
A blog on Christianity Today's website - offering Christian parenting advice and help.

Family Answers
Part of Christiananswers.net - a range of family and parenting issues are addressed.