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The March edition of HomeBase is available for download here. In this month’s edition you will find articles on 1) Mobilizing Moms; 2) How Do Our Children Unwrap Their Spiritual Gifts?; 3) We Are Learning to be an Accepting/Rejecting Family. HomeBase is a publication of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
You should also check out this month’s 24/7 where Dr. Steve Christopher discusses hope. 24/7 is a newsletter also put out by the LCMS for the Christian home.
On occassion I am asked by parents for resources to help them talk to their kids about sex and the changes that they physically and emotionally go through as they grow up. Concordia Publishing House offers a great series for kids or a variety of ages that parents can trust to offer a Biblically sound approach to this delicate subject. 
Just like wild animals our children can smell fear. OK so that is a bit dramatic, however especially for us first time parents each new adventure challenges our ability to draw on the scant resources at our disposal and offer a solution that will affirm prior parenting choices, protect our kids, keep us sane, and form our progeny into healthy, godly, and emotionally well adjusted children. OK so that might be seen as a bit dramatic as well. The good news is we are not in this alone. Not only do we have a marvelous Creator God to rely upon (I am in prayer over parenting choices with my 7 month old regularly), but we have the wisdom of His servants to draw from.
Jim Burns draws upon his years in ministry with youth and parents, as well as his own experience as a father, to provide for us a great tool that we can use gain confidence as parents. Mom and dad, give yourself a gift this Christmas and pick up Confident Parenting to read together. You kids just might thank you for it.
The LCMS offers a pair of family newsletters free via e-mail subscription. In the newsletters for September they:
“raise a few questions in this new issue, and hopefully, provide some answers.
1. Mother, what would your child ask you to change?
2. What’s our F.L.A.G. up to?
3. How eagerly should we sign a pre-nuptial agreement?
4. What are some current tip-offs about dating abuse?
Click here to read the September 2008 Home Base
Be sure to check out the September issure of 24/7 also
Click here to read it.”
Every parent wants to be a good parent. Every parent wants to provide for their child(ren) in the best way possible. The trouble is that becoming a parent does not mean that we are given all the answers in advance on how to accomplish these noble goals. This past Wednesday we began a class called Parenting Your Teenager. The go to experts on parenting that put the materials together are Les and Leslie Parrott (yes a Les married a Leslie). The Parrott’s are a great resource to the family on relationships, both within the family and the marriage. So for today’s parenting resource I am recommending the Parrott’s book The Parent You Want To Be. Here is how they describe their book.
When it comes to parenting, who you are is more important than what you do. After all, your child internalizes your traits more than anyone else’s on the planet. And that’s why Les and Leslie Parrott—in a parenting book like no other—give you a proven plan for cultivating the traits you most want your child to have.
Discover …
• the most important question you’ll ever ask as a parent
• the three-step method to avoid being the parent you don’t want to be
• the secret to making your “intentional traits” stick on even your worst days
… and much more.
A husband and wife team made up of two of today’s leading relationship experts, Les and Leslie Parrott reveal their personal experiences as parents to help you fulfill the most important calling you will ever have. The Parent You Want to Be is inspiring, warm, and filled with a transformational power for your entire family.
Lutheran Hour Ministries offers a great web-site designed to give kids a safe place on-line to enjoy games, print out coloring pages, find devotions & Bible stories, and much more. Check it out!
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod offers a monthly E-journal called HomeBase via e-mail to parents across the country as well as 24/7 a newsletter for “Nurturing tthe Christian Home” written by my friend, colleague, and former professor Dr. Steve Christopher. Check them out below or go to: http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=1732.
There are few things that a parent dreads more than “The Talk.” You know that it is inevitable and yet you put it off as much as you can. I can recall the uncomfortable look on my dad’s face as he asked me if I had any questions about sex, and he is a Lutheran school teacher used to treating the subject in class with Jr. High students. Jim Burns understands from his years in youth and family ministry and as a dad himself. That is why he wrote “Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality.” His own ministry web-site (www.homeword.com) describes the purpose of the book like this:
“Talking with your kids at a young age will help them make more godly decisions along the way, but they’ll need conversation with you at every age. This is your opportunity to establish in them a lasting sexual integrity that will extend throughout their lives.”
About the Author JIM BURNS, PhD, founded the ministry of HomeWord in 1985 to bring help and hope to struggling families. Jim hosts the radio broadcast HomeWord with Jim Burns, which is heard daily in over eight hundred communities nationwide and speaks to thousands around the world each year. He is an award-winning author, whose books include Confident Parenting. Jim and his wife, Cathy, and their three daughters live in California.
