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<\/center>The back of the card would like me to know:<\/p>\nPARENTING…It’s The Most Important Thing You’ll Do!<\/strong><\/p>\n
Whether your kids are stable and doing well or your family is being split apart at the seams by divorce, effective parenting is one of the toughest jobs you’ll ever have. Most of us feel unprepared for the role! At Meadowood Church and Christian School<\/strong> we understand the need for family ministry and effective training for today’s overstressed parents.<\/p>\n
Pastor Harlan and Linda Humiston have raised six children of their own and have coached and counseled other parents for over 25 years. Join us beginning Easter Sunday, April 8,<\/strong> for a six week series on effective parenting skills. Don’t miss former Denver Bronco star Karl Mecklenburg<\/strong> on May 6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What do the Broncos have to do with anything?<\/p>\n
There’s also a schedule, or something.<\/p>\n
“Parenting Isn’t For Cowards” Sermon Series
\nAll Topics are presented Sunday Mornings at 9:00 & 10:30 AMApril 8 – Easter Sunday [period abuse] “God’s Power For Parents”
\nMeadowood Pre-School Children’s Choir Performance<\/em>April 15 [period abuse] “The Primary Relationship For Parents”
\n6:00 PM “Focus on the Family” Parenting Course Begins<\/em>April 22 [more of the same] “The EQ Edge In Parenting”<\/p>\nApril 29 [….] “Navigating Adolescence With Grace”
\nMeadowood Christian School REgistration Deadline (Pre K – 8)<\/em><\/p>\nMay 6 [why?] “What Every Father Needs To Know To Help His Children Succeed”
\nGuest Speaker, Six Time Pro Bowl Champion Karl Mecklenburg<\/em><\/p>\n[funny solid line here]<\/p>\n
May 18-19 [….] Divorce Recovery Workshop
\nFor those considering divorce or recently divorced<\/em><\/p>\nFor some reason, that last one was in a less bold font of a completely different colour.<\/p>\n
Let’s just save some time here.<\/p>\n
1. Use birth control.
\n2. If that fails, or if you wanted kids, remember — they’re your kids. God and the government are not going to raise them.
\n3. Ask your parents. They raised you.
\n3a.. If you’re not talking to your parents, figure out why. Don’t do that to your kids.
\n4. Teaching your children how to think is important.
\n4a. Teaching them how<\/em> to think is different from teaching them what<\/em> to think.
\n4b. Teaching them how to think includes teaching them how to disagree with you. This might sound like a bad idea, but it might actually lead to easier disagreements down the road, with much less screaming and door-slamming.
\n5. Winning the Pro Bowl — whether once or more — does not make someone any more qualified to speak on the subject of fathering. A man that does that is exactly as qualified as any other male that has good, motile sperm free of genetic defect and is capable of getting an erection.
\n6. Your children are people. They are, in fact, individuals. Their small size, and the fact that you changed their diapers, fed them, bathed them, and birthed them at some point do not actually change the fact that they are individuals. What I mean to say is, they’re not teeny little robots that you’ll always be able to control. Be okay with this.
\n6a. If you’re not okay with this, see 1.<\/p>\nThere. Parenting advice from me, mother of none. Unless you count a cat, and this one really nasty case of the flu I once passed on.<\/p>\n
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