2. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear I will try to walk a blameless path, but how I need your help, especially in my own home, where I long to act as I should. Psalm 101:2 TLB

3. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear Acceptance Cool Scale - Need Acceptance - Need Affirmation Compliment Starved - Need Affirmation - Need Approval Confirmation Seeking - Need Approval Constant Strokes - Need Affection Consistent Safeguard - Need Authority Common Schedule - Need Access

4. Three Principles Behind the Twelve Cries and Needs 1. They will aggressively seek to meet these needs. 2. If they don’t get their needs met at home they will seek someone else to meet them. 3. They will tend to embrace the values of those who meet their needs.

5. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear 7. Craving Significance – Action If a man is lazy, the rafters sag: if his hands are idle, the house leaks. Ecclesiastes. 10:18 NIV Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Romans 12:11 NLT

6. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear 8. Character Struggle – Attitude For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he; Proverbs 23:7 KJV

7. What affects this character struggle? Your associates. Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. Proverbs 22:24-25 NLT

8. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear 9. Continual Support – Accountability For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons made themselves contemptible, and he failed to restrain them. 1 Samuel 3:13 NIV

9. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear 10. Childish System – Adulthood When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 NLT

10. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear 11. Culturally Seduced – Arsenal Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth, blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate. Psalm 127:4-5 NIV

11. Twelve Cries Parents Need to Hear 12. Counseled Structure – Advice A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher. Luke 6:40 NASB