What a great weekend we had November 11-13. There were 10 parents that came out to our 4th Empowered Parent Conference. Hope and I were able to get to know and serve these parents. What strikes me over and over is that these are good parents. They just have strong-willed children and don't have the tools to parent them effectively. Now they do. Now they have a plan. Now they have hope. That's what we do.
What's next is that we will plug these parents into weekly support group, were we can continue to coach them and encourage them to be Empowered Parents. Until then they have homework that they need to do. 1. Tell their kids they love them everyday. 2. Give them a positive stroke. 3. Refuse to argue with them.
On Friday night one parent went home and told their strong-willed teen they love them. The teen told them, "get out of my room." The next morning before the conference they told their teen, "We love you." The teen responded "I love yo.... hey leave me alone!" In our world that is a small miracle and we'll take it.
Can't wait until December to help more hurting parents.
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