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Parent Education & Faith Formation


Designing Parent Programming

Every congregation needs an intentional plan that addresses parenting and grand parenting for faith growth at each stage in the first two decades of life: young children, older children, young adolescents, and older adolescents. A plan needs to incorporate three elements: promoting the spiritual and religious growth of parents, developing their faith forming skills, and equipping them with the knowledge and skills for parenting children and adolescents today. 
 
Every congregation can develop a parent plan with a progression of workshops, webinars, courses, activities, support groups, and resources from infancy through the end of the adolescent years. Each new stage—birth: parenting young children; start of school: parenting older children; middle school: parenting young adolescents; high school: parenting older adolescents; graduation from high school: parenting emerging adults—would be introduced through a variety of educational opportunities and then sustained through support groups, continuing education, and online resources and activities. For many churches the life stages correspond to sacramental and milestone celebrations: baptism, first communion, confirmation. These celebrations provide an excellent opportunity to infuse parent formation. 

Download the Design Guide (below) 
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Developmental Relationships, Search Institute

Three reports from the Search present the research behind the five developmental relationships, their applicability to family life and to parenting, and activities and strategies that parents can use to practice the developmental relationships. 
  • Search Institute website: www.search-institute.org/developmental-relationships/
  • ParentFurther website: www.parentfurther.com
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bringing_developmental_relationships_home__search_institute_.pdf
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Research Reports on Effective Parenting Practices 

What Makes a Good Parent (10 Research Findings)- Robert Epstein
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The Most Important Thing You Need to Know about Parenting - Donna Habenicht
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Parent Training Programs: Insights from Practitioners - Centers for Disease Control
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This website is developed by John Roberto as a service of LifelongFaith Associates - committed to helping congregations develop lifelong faith formation for all ages and generations.
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 LifelongFaith Associates
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  • Home
    • Archdiocese of Chicago
  • Design
    • Examples: Online & Blended
    • Designing: Faith Formation Playlists
  • Playlists
  • Tools
    • Learning Apps
  • Curate
    • Curate: Videos & Streaming
    • Curate: Children
    • Curate: Adolescents
    • Curate: Adults
    • Curate: Family
    • Curate: Worship & Lectionary
    • Curate: Christian Practices
  • Practices
    • Lifelong Faith Journal
    • Lifelong Faith Formation
    • Children & Adolescent Faith Formation
    • Young Adult Faith Formation
    • Adult Faith Formation
    • Family Faith Formation
    • Parent Faith Formation
    • Intergenerational Faith Formation
  • Books