Parents never mean to bring harm to their children. But in the real world, parents give much attention to such issues as career, money, divorce, midlife dating, and social life. Without ever meaning to, parents may have emotionally neglected a large percentage of junior high, high school, and college students. Students who have been emotionally neglected try to protect their wounds by pushing parents away. Wounded teenagers who push parents away also push away the faith, values, and ethics of their parents.
On the other hand, many parents and teenagers believe they have a great relationship and do not want to lose what they have. In fact, they want to take their relationship to the next level.
On average, teenagers who become emotionally disconnected from their parents will make grave mistakes when choosing a spouse and beginning a marriage. On average, teenagers who become emotionally disconnected from their parents eventually will become emotionally disconnected from their own children.
The hearts of parents and teenagers can be turned toward each other in 30 powerful evenings. Families can find the closeness that frees students to become healthy young adults who build lifetime marriages and rear wonderful grandchildren.
To strengthen the connection between their hearts, one parent and one student commit to spending 10 minutes together for 30 evenings. Each evening they go to a room with a closed door. By candlelight they draw out the cards for that evening. Following the instructions on the cards, they say and do those things that have the greatest power to deepen relationships. This experience is designed for students junior high through college.
To give you an idea of what each night of the 30 Days experience is like, we have provided the information for the cards on day 15. Click the image to the left to get started.
Josh McDowell
We can't pass on our faith or protect our kids from the culture unless we make that relational connection, that loving bond, that intimate attachment our children so desperately need and want.
Dr. Gary Chapman
For most parents, it is not a matter of sincerity but rather lack of information on how to communicate love effectively on an emotional level.
Dr. Ross Campbell
Children cannot follow their parents in the journey of faith, belief, and moral integrity unless they personally identify with the parents. Nor can they identify with the parents unless the parents meet their emotional needs.
Dr. Bruce Wilkinson
Injured relationships are the major, hidden force that drive our children away from (godly) living, and sometimes from the faith altogether.
Dr. James Dobson
Crowded lives produce fatigue, fatigue produces irritability, and irritability produces indifference. Indifference can be interpreted by the child as a lack of genuine affection and personal esteem.
