Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Do the unusual

Creative Examples: To impact your children, spend time with them! Do the unusual and your kids will remember it -- but think of things that will allow you to spend time with them to communicate meaningfully.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Be Creative In Spending Time With Your Kids

Creative Examples: Be creative in spending time with your kids! Josh shares some creative ideas that he's learned over the years. Go do something special and things that they like! This is where relationships are formed. What creative things have you done?

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Learn About Your Kids

Creative Examples: To positively impact children we need to be creative and we'll learn so much about our kids and how their values are being formed. Josh shares some creative questions that will spark conversations destined to be a hit!

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Be Their Hero

Creative Examples: Be creative with your time with your kids! Josh shares two more examples of building memories with your children. Teach them, be the source of their knowledge and be their hero!

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Parenting is exciting but it requires a lot of effort

One of the greatest impacts on this world is a loving family -- what a great testimony for God! Work together as a family to see how you can impact the world around you. The more aware we are of our kids, the more we are able to see if they're developing healthy values and relationships, and how we can help them improve. Parenting is exciting but it requires a lot of effort!

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Your Children Are Important

Creative Examples: We need to spend time with our children if we're going to impact their lives. Josh shares some examples from his own life to help you with your relationship with your own child(ren). Your child(ren) are important -- treat them that way.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Build Memories Creatively

Creative Examples: "What can I do that my child will never forget?" Build memories creatively. That creativity will impact your kids!

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Fabulous Parental Delusions 1-3

1) "Quality over quantity"; 2) "It's the big moments that count!" and 3) "When my kids are teens, the formative years are past."

Josh shares three delusions that parents believe when parenting and are destructive to your relationship with your kids.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Parenting is Exciting but Hard Work

One of the greatest impacts on this world is a loving family -- what a great testimony for God! Work together as a family to see how you can impact the world around you. The more aware we are of our kids, the more we are able to see if they're developing healthy values and relationships, and how we can help them improve.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - T-I-M-E

How much time do you spend with your child(ren) each day? Statistics have shown that fathers spend 37 seconds a day for preschoolers and 1 minute a day for 7th/8th graders. You must spend meaningful time with your child if you are going to mold them and impact their lives in the way that God designed us to.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Fabulous Parental Delusions 4-6

4) "I'll work hard now and be able to play later"; 5) "God's sovereignty covers all mistakes"; 6) "I just don't have time!"

What we do in this life, now, impacts the near and far future. Make your time with your kids count now -- you will NEVER regret it.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Father's Love

Father's Love: The greatest security of a child today is knowing their father loves their mother. Train your children to have a happy marriage set by your example. See if Josh's examples help spark some ideas of your own!

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Think and Perceive

To impact our kids' lives, we have to create opportunities for our children to think and perceive things. Learn from your kids in a fun way. Take time to be with them and you'll never regret -- your life will impact them for Jesus Christ.

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - How well do you know your child

How well do you know your child? What is your child's #1 friend? Favorite color? Favorite class? What's an issue they need to resolve? What game do they like to play? Do you REALLY know your child?

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Family - Josh McDowell - Creative Parenting - Children's Role Models

Mom & Dad are the first models for our children and our model to our children will override anything that's in the world. Find positive and negative examples in the news to discuss.

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