Adventures in Parenting Seminar Resources
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SUN 2/8/26: "Talking to Your Kids about Sex"
SUN 1/18/26: "Staying Dependent on God as a Parent"
SUN 11/16/25: "Thriving in the Tween & Teen Years"
SUN 10/19/25: "Navigating Big Emotions"
- Seminar Recording / Colleen Murphy
- Seminar Hand outs
- Seminar Powerpoint
- Resources:
- Positive Discipline, Santa Cruz: pdcrcc.org/
- Colleen's website: fromtheheadtotheheart.com/
- General website: positivediscipline.com/
SUN 10/5/25: "Kind & Firm Parenting: Is It Possible?"
- Seminar Recording / Colleen Murphy
- Seminar Notes (folder)
- Seminar "Slides" (notes from Colleen's Easel)
- Resources:
- Positive Discipline, Santa Cruz: pdcrcc.org/
- Colleen's website: fromtheheadtotheheart.com/
- General website: positivediscipline.com/
SUN 9/21/25: "Parenting in the Digital Age"
- Seminar Recording / Steven Johnson
- Seminar Notes
- Seminar PDF
SUN 5/4: "Formed in the Image of Work: Work & Parenting"
SUN 3/30: "Discipling Your Kid's in the Way of Jesus"
- Seminar Recording of Yolanda Beaudoin & Kristin Jensen
- Seminar Notes
- Book, Article & Podcast Recommendations
SUN 3/16: "Boundaries"
- Seminar Recording of Tina Ratliff
- Book Recommendations
SUN 3/2: "Adolescence & Spiritual Formation"
- Seminar Recording with Steven Johnson
- Resources & Book Recommendations
- "3 Big Questions that Change Every Teenager" by Kara Powell and Brad M. Griffin
- "Growing With: Every Parent's Guide" by Kara Powell & Steven Argue
- Fuller Youth Institute
SUN 2/2: "Parenting Your Kid's Through Tough Questions about Faith"
- Book, Video & Podcast Recommendations
- Audio Recording of 2/2 Seminar with Laurie Schlaepfer
SUN 1/26: Parenting Panel
- Parenting Panel Seminar Recording
- Visual Presentation: Jim and Suzi Josselyn answer your specific Parenting Panel questions
- Book Recommendations
- Right Now Media
- Twin Lakes Church offers free access to the library of resources on RightNow Media
- Create a username & password to gain access
SUN 1/12: "How to Grow and Thrive as a Family"
- Faith Based Character Structure
- Expanded Growth Model Information
- Growth Model Illustration
- Growth Journal
Creating Faith-Centered Family Rhythms
For parents of pre-k – 5th, with Adrian Moreno (TLC Young Families Pastor) + Kristin Jensen
*Parenting Junior Highers
with Jessica Frankl (TLC Jr High Pastor)
Screen Sanity: Cultivating Digital Health for Kids
- Screen Sanity: screensanity.org
- Screen Sanity Workbooks
- Screen Strong: screenstrong.org
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- Truth over Tribe: Is a Smartphone a Dumb Idea for Kids? (podcast)
- "How to Delay the Age Kids at Which Get Smartphones" (article)
- The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch
- 10 TechWise Commitments
- Andy Crouch TechWise Video (interview posted on Youtube; 6 min)
- “I wish my parents would get off their screens and talk to me.” Be a model
- Make commitments that show your kids what your family is about. Become persons of wisdom and courage.
- Life in the family is hard. Technology lies to us and says it will make our lives easier.
- Wait til 8th (website) The longer you delay giving them a smartphone (complete with social media access and wifi) the better their overall mental health will be.
- RECOMMENDED INTERNET FILTERS: Cleanbrowsing DNS, Open DNS, Gryphon and Circle
- RECOMMENDED DEVICE LEVEL PROTECTION (filter & monitor at the device level to offer protection for when devices leave your Wi-Fi): Bark, Canopy and Covenant Eyes
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