1. Family Time: Parenting Teenagers
making the most of the years
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

2. Course Outline A Galaxy Far, Far Away On The Radar Screen
the teenage universe
On The Radar Screen
teenage communication
Built To Last
teenage character
Boundaries and Battlefields
teenage tensions
Security, Sex & Substances
teenage issues
Consumerism, Cash and Cyberspace
teenage pressures
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

3. Review of the week
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

4. Session 6 Consumerism, Cash & Cyberspace
Media
Money
Internet
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

5. A. THE MEDIA & CONSUMERISM
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

6. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much...”
Bible View
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can be trusted with much...”
Luke 16:10-12
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

7. Our teenagers as consumers
Our teenagers are told that they are defined by outward labels
“Take away my mobile phone and you take away a part of me”
a teenager
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

8. B. MONEY & DEBT
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

9. Bible View
“...if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you”
Proverbs 22:27
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

10. A strategy for handing on responsibility
train them
teach them
warn them
protect them
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

11. C. GITS – GAMES, INTERNET, TEXTING, SURFING
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

12. G.I.T.S. the attraction the obsession the concerns
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

13. “Do not love the world….”
Bible View
“Do not love the world….”
1 John 2:15-16
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

14. Book of the Week
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

15. Discussion Groups
Family Time Parenting Teenagers

16. Taking it Further
Family Time Parenting Teenagers