Teaching Your Kids About Money

Here is a great article about the importance of teaching your kids about money by Christian Financial Counselor Dave Ramsey. Do you give your kids an allowance? You may be surprised to hear what Dave has to say about that. He also talks about the importance of teaching your kids about spending, saving and giving. I have been a listener of Dave Ramsey's radio show and have read a few of his books and for the most part his advice is right on the money. (pun intended!)

In addition to the article there is a short video of Dave teaching similar material. Please click the link below to access the article.

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Features/Magazine/2011/teaching-your-kids-about-money.aspx

2 Great Resources at a Great Price!

Please see the link at the end of this post and check out Getting to the Heart of Parenting by Paul David Tripp. I have this material on CD and it is excellent! For the next week you can get the DVD's from WTSBooks for $14.99 which is 75% off the regular price! I am a firm believer that as parents we need to saturate our minds with material like this. Parenting is a tough job and it is easy to get worn down when things get hard. Sometimes it causes us to fall into bad habits of parenting in an un-biblical way.

Materials like this are a constant encouragement to me and they have helped me tremendously. Our marriage class used material by Paul David Tripp and it was very well received. I highly recommend this resource.

The other book in the email is by Donald S. Whitney entitled Family Worship. I believe as a father it is my responsibility to see that we have family devotions or family worship as often as possible. Right now what that means for us is that we are trying to read through the bible as a family this year. For others it can mean more or less. This book talks about the importance of family worship as it relates to Deuteronomy 6:4-9. When Tedd Tripp was at High Point Church a few years ago he let me borrow his copy. It is also an excellent resource and it is only $4.00 until next week.

If anyone has any questions please let me know. Here is the link.

http://www.wtsbooks.com/enews_archive/GTHPTrippSale.html

Carl

New Parenting Class starts January 19th

Starting Wednesday, January 19th at 6:30 pm, Vertical Parenting will be starting a 15 week parenting class based on the popular book Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp.

The mission of Vertical Parenting is to “Ignite a Passion in Parents to Take the Lead in the Spiritual Training of their Children and Equip Them to Carry out the Task”. If Sherry and I had to recommend one book for that equipping process, next to the Bible, it would be Shepherding a Child’s Heart.  It is our opinion that Shepherding a Child’s Heartis foundational in that equipping process. While many parenting books focus on behavior modification Shepherding a Child Heart focuses on heart transformation. Centered on using God’s Word to transform the heart of your child, its aim is to point your children to the Gospel in every area of their life. It is the Gospel and the Gospel alone that will produce lasting change in your children as well as in your marriage and in your entire

family.

We know you will be blessed by not only the teaching but by the fellowship with other like-minded parents. You will be encouraged to know that the parenting challenges that you may be facing are not unique to your family. One of the blessings that previous attendees have shared is the

realization that, “they are not alone in the challenges they face.”  This material is for parents, grandparents, teachers, Sunday School

Teachers, Child Care Workers  and anyone who cares for children of ANY age. For more information please go towww.verticalparenting.com.

To register please look for the insert in this Sundays bulletin. You can also contact Carl or Sherry Majeski at 793-6034 or by email at verticalparenting@gmail.com. We hope you can join us for this 15 week class so that we can ensure “that the next generation may know.” (Psalms 78:6)

Sincerely,

Carl and Sherry Majeski