David Thomas
Nurturing Boys
This seminar helps people who care for boys how to best understand, educate, challenge, support, and further boys in their journey to becoming men.
The Back Door to Your Teen’s Heart
(with Melissa Travathen and Sissy Goff)
The back door approach, but believe it is a disarming way to connect with adolescents. This is a day of teaching, laughing, talking, and encouraging each other on our journey to helping teens become who God has created them to be. Areas covered include:
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1.development - what to expect during the teenage years
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2.softening - what relationship does and can look like with teenagers
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3.shaping - how to love, discipline, and instruct teens
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4.strengthening - how to help the teenagers in our lives feel a sense of purpose and discover more of who God is creating them to be.
Life After High School
This is a seminar for parents of high school juniors and seniors to equip parents to learn how to help prepare their children and themselves for what comes next.
Raising Kids of Character
(with Melissa Travathen and Sissy Goff)
What do you want the most for your child? A successful job? Confidence? A marriage that lasts? Happiness? We would guess that you want all of these things and so much more. We would also guess that you know, as well as we do, how fleeting these things truly can be.
So, what can you offer a child? What can you build into your son’s and daughter’s life that will carry him through the a life that will contain it's share of happiness and sorrow? What can you give them that will strengthen them in ways that are deeper and more lasting than their circumstances or feelings?
The answer is character. Character is one of the most important and most difficult things to instill in the life of a child.
We talk about:
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1.Who Your Kids Are--a developmental look at the emotional, physical, and spiritual growth of your child from birth to their early twenties.
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2.What Your Kids Need--what you can offer them at every stage.
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3.Who Your Kids Can Be--how to develop a vision for all of the good and depth of character God has placed inside of them.