Parenting Today’s Teens Classes by Mark Gregston

Wednesdays starting March 30, 2016
6:00 – 7:30 pm at Sacred Exchange Fellowship
75 Division Street, Warwick, RI

Are you raising a teen between the ages of 11 and 18, or looking forward to those years? Do you work with teens — or want to?



This 9-week series of classes and workshops is created just for you!

Mark Gregston, counselor and founder of Heartlight Ministries, created this DVD- and workbook-based seminar for parents to provide proven strategies for creating and maintaining an open, loving, and honest relationship with your teenager — no matter how far into the teen years he or she is.

Watch this video testimonial from Rick Provost, a Dad who took part in our last Parenting Today’s Teens workshop:

Our next 9-week session of “Dealing with Today’s Teens” classes begins on Wednesday, March 30th, 2016, and continues for 9 weeks. Classes run from 6:00-7:30 pm at Sacred Exchange Fellowship, 75 Division Street in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Classes are taught by licensed counselor Sandie Smith, LCDCS, LCDCP. Each week’s class costs $20 per family, payable at each class, and include a workbook. Couples may use the same workbook, and may order a second one if they like.

Sessions include:

Lesson 1 – Understanding Your Teen’s Needs

• Creating an Arena for Healthy Relationships That Meets Their Longing for Security
• They’re Entitled and Overindulged on Many Levels
• They’re Less Mature than Past Generations
• Really, They Want It All
• When Parenting Moves to Peerenting
• They Long for Significance and Security
• Creating an Arena for Healthy Relationships
• Committing to Not Disengage

Lesson 2 – Understanding Your Parenting Role

• Understanding Your Role in Parenting Your Teen
• Understanding Their Changing Perceptions
• My Child’s Relational Style
• Embracing Your Teen
• Offering Rest for Their Soul
• Being Who God Has Called You To Be

Lesson 3 – Understanding Your Teen’s Behavior

• Why Do Teens Do What they do?
• Their Behavior is Goal Oriented
• Your Child’s Needs
• Determining Factors in your Child’s Understanding of Needs
• Establishing Boundaries

Lesson 4 – Understanding Your Relationship

• When A Child’s Behavior Doesn’t Determine Their Behavior
• Does Bad Behavior Necessarily Equal a Bad Kid?
• When Value Isn’t Determined by Behavior
• Loving Your Child Unconditionally
• When a Child Fails
• Providing a Way of Restoration
• When Expectations Become the Standard and Alienate the Child

Lesson 5 – Understanding the Purpose of Pain

• How Pain Leads us to God’s Blessing
• Pain Causes us to Examine Our Circumstances
• Pain Appears at Predictable Moments
• Ways to Avoid Pain
• The Godly Results of Facing Pain
• When Protecting Becomes Enabling

Lesson 6 – Developing Boundaries For Your Teen

• Setting Parameters that Guide and Direct A Child
• Boundaries Define Us
• Boundaries Help us Set Our Priorities
• Directing Our Child’s Path

Lesson 7 – Understanding the Roots of Discipline

• Putting Rules and Consequences Into Effect
• Establishing Policies and Procedures Where There Were None
• Determining Your Beliefs
• Communicating the Rules
• Agreeing on the Consequences
• Examples

Lesson 8– Issues of Control

• Helping a Child Make Decisions and Choices
• Who Is in Control?
• The Motivation for Control
• Under And Over Control
• Handing Over Control
• Lack of Limits and Wrong Decisions

Sponsored by House of Hope Rhode Island

Please register using the form below, or click here for a mobile version. Our counselor Sandie Smith will contact you to follow up.

Thank-you for your tax-deductible donation to the ministry of House of Hope Rhode Island!

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