Learning to parent with love and relationship as your bottom-line goal. What's your bottom line goal in parenting?

1. MAKING A HEART TO HEART
CONNECTION WITH YOUR KID

2. Agenda
 Overview
 Introductions
 Today’s Topic
 Take Aways

3. Overview
 6 sessions. 10:00-12:00 p.m.
 January 19th Evaluating where you are & is it
working
 February 2nd Core Beliefs-Is it Time for a Paradigm
Shift?
 March 2nd Relationship, Relationship,
Relationship-Part 1
 April 6th Relationship, Relationship,
Relationship-Part 2
 May 4th Coaching for Success
 June 1st Be a Dream Releaser
 Highly Interactive with open discussions

4. Introductions
 Greater Grounds
 Organization that believes when individuals know
WHO they are and WHY they exist and they live out of
that truth in community that radical transformation
occurs.
 Lisa McClanahan
 Each other
 Who are you?
 What do you do?
 Why are you here? What do you hope to get out of our
time together?

5. Parenting-Joy or Pain?
My Story

6. Parenting-Joy or Pain?

7. Parenting-Joy or Pain?

8. Evaluating Where You Are
 Key Questions-Parenting Vision
 What’s your goal/mission in raising your kids?
What are you trying to accomplish?
 What does success look like?
 Are you on course for success?
 If you are awesome!
 If you are not, where do you think you are off?

9. Evaluating Where You Are
 Key Questions-Relationship
 Describe your relationship with your kid.
 What do you like?
 What do you dislike?
 Why do you think your relationship is where it is
today?
 How do you get your kids to do what you ask? What
tools do you use?
 Describe what you would like your relationship to look
like?
 What are you willing to do to improve the
relationship?

10. Evaluation Where You Are
 How well do you know your kids?
 What are their strengths?
 How do they best receive love?
 What are their dreams/passions?
 What are you doing to help them discover
who they are and their purpose?
 Do you give them significant learning
opportunities?
 Are you ok when they fail?

11. The Million Dollar
Question
How do we raise our kids
to be who they are and
live out their life purpose
as valued members in our society?

12. Mission Possible!
 We must equip our kids to
 Move from total dependence to independence
 Discover who they are
 Discover why they are here, their purpose.
What are the keys to equipping our kids?

13. The Golden Keys
 Love/Relationship
 Freedom
 Moving from external control to self-c0ntrol
 Choices
 Making good choices is like any other activity-It
has to be learned & practiced!
 Everything is a significant learning opportunity
 The challenge is to love kids enough to allow them
to fail and let the significant learning
opportunities build our kids.

14. Take Aways
 Review the questions we asked.
 Do you see any common elements?
 Highlight the positive elements that you would
like to see in your relationship with your kids.
 Develop a mission statement (your bottom-line
goal) that will guide you in raising your kids.
 Look for opportunities to begin intentionally act
out of your new mission statement!