INTRODUCTION:

This section is dedicated to helping to develop better parenting skills for both married and single parents.

NEWS:

ARTICLES:

SERMONS:

FATHERING:

  • Tell Me About Your Father-Father's Day Message by Pastor Mike MacIntosh, given at Horizon Christian Fellowship on Father's Day, 2003.  Explains why our culture is going down the tubes because kids don't have fathers
  • Father's Day 1998-U.S. Census Bureau
  • Wanted: Fathers -Kevin Swanson

HUMOR:

RESEARCH/EDUCATION:

RESOURCES:

Kinderstart


QUOTES:

  • "Teach your children the value of money and the importance of saving."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Don't worry that you can't give your kids the best of everything. Give them your very best."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Read to your children."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Sing to your children."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Listen to your children."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "When playing games with children, let them win."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Determine the quality of a neighborhodd by the manners of the people living there."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Let your children overhear you saying complimentary things about them to other adults."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Work hard to create in your children a good self-image. It's the most important thing you can do to insure their success."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Encourage your children to have a part-time job after the age of sixteen."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Turn off the television at dinner time."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Be there when people need you."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Hug children after you discipline them."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Tell your kids how terrific they are and that you trust them."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Respect your children's privacy. Knock before entering their room."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "A mother is not someone to lean on, but someone who makes leaning unnecessary."
  • "Self-reliance is the greatest gift a parent can give a child."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
  • "Even if you're financially well-to-do, have your children earn and pay part of their college tuition."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
  • "Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it will be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
    ...
    Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven."  --Holy Bible;New King James Version, Matt 18:5-7
  • "Our jurisprudence historically has reflected Western civilization concepts of the family as a unit with broad parental authority over minor children. Our cases have consistently followed that course; our constitutional system long ago rejected any notion that a child is "the mere creature of the State" and, on the contrary, asserted that parents generally "have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare [their children] for additional obligations." Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510, 268 U. S. 535 (1925). See also Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U. S. 205, 406 U. S. 213 (1972); Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U. S. 158, 321 U. S. 166 (1944); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390, 262 U. S. 400 (1923). Surely, this includes a "high duty" to recognize symptoms of illness and to seek and follow medical advice. The law's concept of the family rests on a presumption that parents possess what a child lacks in maturity, experience, and capacity for judgment required for making life's difficult decisions. More important, historically it has recognized that natural bonds of affection lead parents to act in the best interests of their children. 1 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *447; 2 J. Kent, Commentaries on American Law *190." [Parham v. J. R., 442 U.S. 584 @ 602 (1979)]