Influencing Your Children
Your kids want you to talk to them about your opinions and values. They need you to set boundaries and give them consistent direction and advice when it comes to making positive decisions. The following questions are ideas and topics you can discuss with your children to share your concerns, thoughts and feelings.
- What goals do I have for my children?
- What have been the biggest regrets in my life?
- What have been my greatest successes?
- What goals do my children have for themselves? As their parent, what can I do to help them reach those goals?
- Do I know my children’s friends? Do their friends have similar values and are they capable of making positive decisions?
- Why is it important for my children to abstain from sex until marriage?
- Why is it important for my children to resist drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco and marijuana and using other drugs?
- What is one thing I can do today that will help my children make positive decisions?
Ideas for this activity came from The Peer Project, Indianapolis, IN, www.peersproject.org
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