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Parenting for Life resources

Printable study sheets and lesson notes for home and small groups

Source status: These lesson pages are original study-based adaptations of the Parenting for Life themes. They are not transcripts or official course notes. The Lesson 4 audio has not yet been transcribed. Scripture is quoted from the NASB 1995; read every passage in context.

Download the full infographic pack

Parenting for Life printable infographic pack (PDF, 6 pages, 39 KB)

Parenting for Life: Lessons 1–4 study companion (PDF, 14 pages, 0.9 MB)

Diagram: behaviour grows from thoughts and intentions, which grow from the heart's desires, fears and beliefs

The six sheets included

  1. Love One Another: Six Scripture-led habits for a Christian home: love, serve, encourage, forgive, be patient and pray.
  2. Make Homework Meaningful: A five-step rhythm: read, reflect, discuss, practise, review.
  3. The Heart and Behaviour: An original conceptual graphic showing how desires and beliefs shape thoughts, words and actions, inspired by a diagram credited to Carey Hardy in the course appendix.
  4. Growing in Responsibility: An original stages-of-responsibility graphic (early years to adulthood), inspired by a chart credited to Wayne Mack in the course appendix. It is not a fixed age formula.
  5. Parent Reflection Worksheet: Print one for each lesson.
  6. Family Conversation Card: A gentle weekly check-in: notice, listen, own it, grow, pray.

The lessons

Original audio

The 2009 Parenting for Life recordings (9 sessions, Richard Harasick, Grace Community Church) are on the Grace Community Church series page.

Attribution

These pages and sheets are an original study companion based on the themes of the Grace Community Church Parenting for Life course. They paraphrase general ideas and add original exercises; they do not reproduce workbook text, tables or illustrations. Appendix IV and workbook pages 108–111 were not available to us, so they are not included.