An 18-week parenting course that is offered at Open Door Baptist Church in January every year. The church has been presenting the course since 1995, with life-changing results in countless numbers of families. Steve and Andrea D’Amico facilitate the class with teaching through DVDs, class workbooks, class discussion and practical application. Each week provides workable principles from God’s Word that can be utilized in today’s family to bring about peace and harmony in the home and in the marriage relationship. No stone is left unturned!

 

The classes take place on Sunday nights from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Sunday school building at the church. For families with children from ages 5 to 12, we offer a program, “Patch the Pirate”, during the time of the class. This is a Biblically based Club with singing, skits, fun activities and daily devotions. For children ages 3 and 4, we have a class that coincides with the Growing Kid’s course. So when adults are learning a principal, your children will be learning the same principal adaptable to their age. There are games, coloring and stories to help with this instruction. For children ages 2 and under, our nursery is provided.  The cost of the course is $45 per couple. You will receive two workbooks, many handouts and lots of instruction on what the Bible has to say about raising families.

 

Some of the Growing Kids God’s Way Topics:

1) How to raise a moral child     2) The role of the marriage relationship in the family
3) How to effectively express love to your mate and children     4) The Biblical model of a father
5) Blended families and single parents     6) How to develop a healthy conscience in children
7) Respect for authority, parents, age, peers, property and nature     8) Principles of obedience
9) Discipline with encouragement and correction     10) Consequences and punishment
11) Repentance, forgiveness and restoration     12) Most discipline issues including: whining,
temper tantrums, lying, cheating, stealing, hitting, unkind speech, tattling and power struggles
13) Should choices be used in the life of a child     14) What a healthy family looks like

 

Sign-up today by calling 352-394-5951. Space is limited.

 

"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it."  Proverbs 22:6