Parenting Teenagers Class

What: Parenting Teenagers Class
Who: All parents of teens or future parents of teens
When: Sundays 1400-1600   March 16-April 13
Where: Pulaski Religious Youth Center

Are you concerned about your teenager?  Would you like to be a better parent to your teen?

Join Brad Ellgen (Cadence Adult Ministry Missionary) to see the joy of guiding the process of your teenagers growing into adults.

Please feel free to contact Kevin (kevin.scheible@cadence.org) or Brad (brad.ellgen@cadence.org) for more information about this class.


Here's a little from Brad about the class he will be teaching:

Adolescents are constantly hearing conflicting messages from their friends, the media, teachers, parents and church leaders.   They will decide which voices they will listen to and with little experience to guide them they will make decisions which could alter the course of their lives.  The stakes are truly high.  Yet parents remain the most influential voice in teen's lives.  

Parenting two boys who transitioned from being children into men was without question the hardest thing we have ever done.   We watched our teens make increasingly dangerous and foolish decisions.  We were scared, confused, losing influence and seldom had much certainty in what we were doing as parents.

However, we were not alone.  During this time God provided a group of other parents who supported us in the process.  We met together every week to pray, study God's word and honestly share our struggles.  This group of parents became dear to us.  Not because they had the answers or a formula for success, but because they cared and loved us.

Our two sons are in the mid 30's now with families of their own.   When we are together now we remember and laugh together about their adolescent years.  God was so good to us.

However, Debbie and I know that not all parents have the kind of support / study group that we had.  We know how meaningful that was to us and would like to offer that kind of class to any parents who would like to join us to study God's words and think together about how He wants us to parent our teenagers.