Tough love

1
Tough love Tender hearts

• How to Be a Better Parent

2
Be your childs best friend

• If a child lives with criticism, He learns to
  condemn.If a child lives with hostility, He
  learns to fight.If a child lives with ridicule,
  He learns to be shy.If a child lives with shame,
  He learns to feel guilty.If a child lives with
  tolerance, He learns to be patient.

3

• If a child lives with encouragement, He learns
  confidence.If a child lives with praise, He
  learns to appreciate.If a child lives with
  fairness, He learns justice.If a child lives
  with security, He learns to have faith.If a
  child lives with approval, He learns to like
  himself.If a child lives with acceptance and
  friendship,He learns to find love in the world.

4

• Children need not only quality time they need
  quantity time to develop good communication.
• Loving and respectful
• Free-flowing
• Honest
• Open
• Edifying

5
Be your childs cheerleader

• Celebrate every victory, large or small.
• Urge greater effort when weakness is
  demonstrated.
• Never quit believing that their team can win.
• Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth,
  but only such a word as is good for edification
  according to the need of the moment, that it may
  give grace to those who hear. (Ephesians 429)

6
Be your childrens moral compass

• Correct your son, and he will give you comfort
  He will also delight your soul. (Prov. 2917)
• And, fathers, do not provoke your children to
  anger but bring them up in the discipline and
  instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 64)
• Train up a child in the way he should go, even
  when he is old he will not depart from it.
  (Proverbs 226)

7
Be your childs protector

• The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child who
  gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
  (Prov. 2915)
• Rediscover your right to say no!

8

• For I have told him that I am about to judge his
  house forever for the iniquity which he knew,
  because his sons brought a curse on themselves
  and he did not rebuke them. (1 Samuel 313)
• Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself,
  saying, I will be king. So he prepared for
  himself chariots and horsemen with fifty men to
  run before him. And his father had never crossed
  him at any time by asking, Why have you done
  so? And he was also a very handsome man and he
  was born after Absalom. (1 Kings 15-6)
• Discipline your son while there is hope, and do
  not desire his death. (Prov. 1918)

9

• The life-saving "no"
• The moral "no"
• The priority "no"
• The challenging "no"

10

• A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish son
  is a grief to his mother. (Prov. 101)
• He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and
  the father of a fool has no joy. (Prov. 1721)