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Parenting is a journey full of ups and downs. Most of us want to do the best we can for our kids, yet we often feel overwhelmed and in over our heads. From helping our kids to mature and manage their emotions to simply loving them well even when life is hard, parenting is not for the faint of heart.
THRIVEtoday offers parenting support by training you in key relational skills that bring the maturity and capacity to handle the responsibility of raising children with more joy and peace. Ideally, these skills are learned from our families beginning in infancy. However, we all have gaps, and those gaps affect us and our children.
The good news is that by developing relational skills you can fill the gaps in areas where you struggle and grow the ability to:
Whether you have babies, grown children, or are mentoring other parents, our resources can help support you. Our brains are never too old to change and never too young to learn.
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. – Prov. 22:6, ESV.
We tend to reflect on our own childhood as we raise our kids. This brings up a host of thoughts and feelings as we go through the stages of parenting at different ages.
Do you ever find yourself thinking or experiencing the following?
“I want to connect better with my children.”
“I want to learn how to correct my children without disrupting our relationship.”
“I struggle with helping my children process their emotions.”
“I want to learn how to help my kids build resilience.”
The goal is not perfection. The goal is to continue to grow and learn how to repair when we make mistakes. Relational skills help you learn how to do that.
If you are a Christian looking to parent with confidence and peace, relational skills can help us to receive perspective, joy, peace, appreciation, and greater awareness of God’s presence. As we develop these skills we start increasing our capacity to remain peaceful, joyful and present with our kids even during hard times.
Each of our 5 foundational skills will help you build new habits and expand your emotional capacity:
Intro Video
In this segment of ‘How The Relational Skills Address My Biggest Problems’, discover how developing brain-based relational skills can make all the difference in your parenting journey!
Free Webinar
If you are an adult walking alongside kids, young adults, or parents in your community, join Chris Coursey for a discussion on how to engage with our kids, validate the challenges they face, and equip them to be wise, relational, and tender with others. Learn tips for how to be present with them on this journey, even when it is difficult, and how to help them connect with God along the way.
Book
Part of The 4 Habits Series, learn to make the parenting decisions that bring joy to yourself – the essential first step – and then to those young lives in your hands.
When we strengthen our own foundation, the struggles of parenting can feel easier.
Our podcast addresses the topic of parenting in these episodes:
Our guest in this episode, Michel Hendricks, is a Thrive relational skills trainer, a consultant who helps churches and mission organizations incorporate relational practices in their ministries, and also the author of “The Other Half of Church”. He shares some of the difficulties he ran into as a discipleship pastor and a parent, and how learning more about how God designed our brains and relational skills has helped him love like Jesus loves in these and many other areas of his life.
These 30-60 minute FREE WEBINARS address issues to do with parenting and our kids:
Find more webinars and videos on our YouTube channel.
These books will help either specifically with parenting, or with getting your own relational skills journey started:
Additional Partner Books:
Free resources and PDFs you can use that will bring your family together:
