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PARENTING ARTICLES & SUPPORT RESOURCE MATERIALS
View now or download & print any of these helpful parenting articles and
support materials in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, that promote or
demonstrate the principles outlined in Growing Families programs.
Please Note: The items listed here are intended for personal support and encouragement for parents, and for explanation of the parenting philosophes of Growing Families International and their programs. Their use outside of these parameters is not permitted and is not authorised, and is a breach of the copyrights act. All items are copyrighted by GFI or GFA unless indicated. Please contact the GFA National Office for further clarification if required.
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About the Ezzo's "Parenting the Whole Child" Philosophy - from GFI |
Moral parenting is practical and easily translated into the everyday how-tos. We're excited about this because we know when a principle is made practical, beautiful changes come into the lives of children. In fact, parents today have every reason to hope for and experience strong, positive, healthy, and lasting relationships with their children. |
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Behavioural Capacity Versus Behavioural Desires - Gary & Anne Marie Ezzo |
Most parental instruction for children prior to age two comes in the form of training. That is because children at these ages are not cognitively ready to be educated in specific cause and effect relationships. During the early toddler years they are only leaning how to act appropriately and not why it is so. |
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Holiness & the Christian Family - Gary Ezzo |
When the Christian family is no longer what it ought to be, everything else that the church does is weakened, if not destroyed, for what we are as a family is what we are as a church. For what is the church but a family of families, and a household of households. |
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Leading by Authority or Influence - Carla's story |
...So I called my nine year old aside and asked, "Whitney, why are you so willing to share all of a sudden?” And this is what she told me. "Mum, this is how I always felt, but you never let me do it without telling me I had to. I wanted to show you how I feel, but you never let me do it without making me..." In the past, when I tried to control all outcomes, I was actually robing my kids of the joy of doing right. I can see that now. |
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Parental Affection and Character Development - Gary Ezzo |
There is a relationship between parental affection and character development in children. This is why parents cannot separate the various forms of love from the moral construction of their children. Christ's love is moral in its outworking, and the love we show to our children should be the same. Parents should love their children with a great sense of moral purposefulness. |
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Today's Child, Tomorrow's Man - Gary Ezzo |
The biblical exhortation that sin is passed from parents to child, serves to exhort and stir up passions about the spiritual welfare of our children. Yet many parents, in light of this belief, stand back and count on grace to bring about change. They cry, “Grace, grace, give me more grace.” We so seldom hear today, “Righteousness, righteousness, help me make them more righteous.” |
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Why Start a Parenting Ministry in Your Church - Gary Ezzo |
We live in a quick-fix society. Unfortunately, couples too often want a quick fix to their long-term parenting problems. We, in church leadership, do a disservice to our people if all we offer are short-term solutions for long-term problems. Without a program of comprehensive parent/discipleship, that is exactly what we do. We are only offering a bandaid to mask the problem, not to fix it. |
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"Get Up and Win the Race" |
Email sales@gfi.org.au. |
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A great poem of encouragement (author unknown) set into a full colour, borderless A4 poster you can print out and
hang on the wall or stick on the fridge.
The poster can be purchased from the GFA office for $2.20 on 250 gm paper or the same laminated at $3.85, plus postage.