Life Series cum Middle Years~ Four Modules – One Complete Series 

Module One: Life, Children and Relationships (TOL Chapters 1 to 6) 
Speaks to the relational components associated with healthy parenting. Because children tend to reflect the priorities and values of their home life, what is important to Mom and Dad will become important to their children, and will influence what each child becomes in the future.

1] Session 1 A Two-World Perspective
[1] Our Priorities
– 4 Drivers of Priorities
i) Our Motives
ii) Our Faith
iii) Our Knowledge Base
iv) Our Prayer Base

[2] Our Words
– Life words
– Death words
– Diversity within death culture dilutes goodness

[3] Our Application
– 3 Principles to Choose Life
– Performance Focus vs Transformation Focus
– Without understanding, judgment becomes the illegitimate substitute for understanding
– How do we choose death?
– How do we choose life?

2] Session 2 Marriage and the Secure Child
[1] Our Home’s Foundation
– 3 Great Developmental Influences in Life
– Our marriage is the foundation of our home
– The greatest influence you can have on your children
– Alone parent
– Couple Game

[2] Our Children’s Security
– 3 Basic Love Needs of Children
– Couch Time
– 2 Key Criteria for Couch Time
– 3 Things to Say

[3] Our Intimacy
– 7 Things Husband Must Know
– 7 Things Wife Must Know
– The Date

3] Session 3 Love DNA & Creating Treasures of the Heart
[1] Our Definition of Love
– Loving a person does not mean we like the person; it means we desire good for the person
– What is important is what we do about our liking or dis-liking
– Liking makes it easier to love
– Wrong Type of Love
– Rules for Loving

[2] Our Words of Love
– Learning the words of love
– Feel love; communicate love
– God is love
– Love has 2 sides and 3 components

[3] Our Touchpoints of Love
– Concept of Love Language
– Primary Love Language
– 6 Touchpoints of Love
1. Encouraging words
2. Acts of Service
3. Gift-giving
4. Quality Time
5. Physical touch & closeness
6. Thoughtful Gestures

4] Session 4 Power of Life & Death
[1] Our Emotional Messages
– Parenting Proactively
– Exam[les of Proactive Parenting
– Emotional Messages either strengthen or weaken the neural-pathways of understanding

[2] Our Flattery Messages
– Flattery vs Praise
– Case Studies

[3] Our Children’s Failure
– Freedom to Fail
– Rushing in to Fix
– Over prescribe
– Speaking down
– When parents eliminate personal initiatives
– What to do about failures
– “wisdom blessings” hidden in failures

5] Session 5 Influences of Sight & Sound
[1] Our Legacy of Love
– Parents’ Pattern of Words
– Rules of Engagement
– Language of Recruitment
– Language of Importance

[2] Our Home Environment
– Parents—the ever present role models
– Moods and pattern of speech of parents
– Write Love Notes
– Make speeches at dinner table
– Please and thank you used between family members
– Interrupt courtesy
– Everyone may speal
– Exercise self-control
– Music in the home
– physical environment of the home
– 3 worlds of our children

[3] Our Response
– Concept of Round Words
– Concept of War Words
– Ladder of Inference

 

Module Two: Life, Children and Character Development (TOL Chapters 7 to 12 cum Middle Years Chapters 1 to 2)
Covers critical components of character training and explains the guiding principles for raising children who are kind, courteous, respectful, cooperative, confident, and certainly well mannered. No child arrives at this level of moral distinctiveness if the home life from which he or she comes is not already conversant with such virtue. Part two is as much for parents as it is for children.

Module Three: Life, Children, Encouragement and Correction  (TOL Chapters 13 to 15 cum Middle Years Chapters 3 to 6)
Takes up the challenges associated with the correction side of training. Correction is not all about fixing undesirable or wayward behavior—parents must also pay attention to the preventative components of training that reduce the amount of correction needed in the first place. Proactively encouraging behaviors that help children stay on track and knowing how to properly correct children to put them back on track is the focus of Part Three.

Module Four: Life, Children, Sexuality, and Digital  (TOL Chapters 16 to 18 cum Middler Years Chapters 7 to 11)
The middle-years is one of the most amazing phases of childhood and unsuspicious time for parents. It is a season in which that son or daughter in your home is too old to be called a child, but too young to be labelled an adolescent. From a growth and developmental standpoint, the middle years is a period in which children begin the long process of metamorphosis—moving away from childhood dependencies, associations, and interests, and moving toward a self-reliance directed more and more by the beliefs and values of their home life.

For 2025, each module is 5 sessions of 2 hours per session via MS Teams.

Course fee includes: [1] Two age group course books (Tree of Life and Middle Years), [2] one-year video subscription, [3] 12 other supplementary books, [4] video recording of all sessions, and [5] slides for all sessions