Surfing the Waves

In session six of the original Parenting for Faith course, Rachel Turner talks about Parenting for Faith’s fifth key tool, surfing the waves.

Throughout their lives, our children and teens will be measured, marked and tested over and over again. Spelling tests, sports days, swimming badges, music exams, SATs, GCSEs, A-levels, driving tests. The list goes on.

It took me a long time to realise this, but spiritual parenting is really not very different from the everyday parenting you do all the time - it's just a question of applying the skills and tools you already use to help them meet and know God.

If you've chosen to respond to trick or treaters and would like to explore how, then this post provides some ideas to get you started.

There are lots of different ways to think about Halloween. This post shares some different approaches to help you explore how we might choose to approach Halloween.

Becky explores how we might build a godly core of confidence in our children to counter the messages of our celebrity obsessed culture.