Internet Safety: Follow Playground Rules
By Jenifer Gamber
If you are the parent of a teen, take yourself back 10 or so years when your teens were 4 or 5. Remember how they loved to go to the playground! They met new friends and played. With their friends they dug for dinosaurs in the sandbox or wheeled into dizziness on the merry-go-round. We watched our children develop friendships, learn to share, and console a buddy who had skinned a knee. Playgrounds were an important part of our children’s developing social skills. Like any activity, we had rules to keep them safe. Read more….
FIVE PRINCIPLES For Living And Passing On Faith by Vibrant Faith Ministries
What do you think each of these principles mean and how can you live them as a family?
- Faith is formed by the power of the Holy Spirit through personal, trusted relationships – often in our own homes..
- The church is a living partnership between the ministry of the congregation and ministry of the home..
- Where Christ is present in faith, the home is church too.
- Faith is caught more than it is taught.
- If we want Christian children and youth, we need Christian adults.
For more about a framework for raising faith-filled children, click here.