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Love Them -- and Teach Them to Love

As people of faith, we believe that our children were created by a loving God. God created them (and us) from love, for love, to love. Our task as adults is to help our children to realize that their very life is a love gift, and to teach them -- year by year, day by day, hour by hour, -- how to love – how to love God, how to love others, and even how to love themselves.

 

Central to this task will be helping them, as they approach the teen years, to understand their developing sexuality, and to make the kinds of choices and decisions that will lead to truly loving relationships in their lives.

 

The L.I.F.E. Program is designed to guide parents in the most important task of their lives – raising good kids. All parents want their children to be kind, generous, independent, and loving. They want their children to know how to get along with others, to make good decisions, and to grow into responsible, loving adults.

 

The L.I.F.E. Program helps parents do something every parent wants to do, but often doesn’t know how to do – talk to their own children

-- about making good decisions

-- about developing positive character strengths

-- about the importance of healthy, life-giving friendships

-- about sexuality and chastity

-- about how to avoid getting caught in relationships that are negative and   destructive.

 

Each session of the L.I.F.E. Program consists of engaging, interactive, age-appropriate processes directed by a trained facilitator. The processes make it fun and easy for the family members to talk to one another. The topics covered include loving relationships, character development, sexuality, chastity, and abuse prevention – always handled according to the age-level of the children, and always in the context of faith, morality, and prayer. 

 

Many of the lesson plans in my books and online sessions are designed to help children and teens to understand the great mystery of love, to learn to be truly loving persons, and to recognize and avoid love's many counterfeits.   This is the focus of my high school text Sex and the Teenager, of the entire Learning about L.I.F.E. program, and of many of my Youth Ministry Access lessons.

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