IMPORTANCE OF

PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT
IN THEIR CHILDREN’S LIFE
PARENT-CHILD ENCOUNTER
STORY Imagine a woman walking
into the store asking the
store owner, “Do you
have a Papaya?” The
storeowner smiled and
said, “Yes, we have,” and
gave the woman the
brown packet of Papaya
seeds.
The woman was upset
upon seeing that what
was given were Papaya
seeds instead of the
Papaya fruit.
 She raises her eye
brow and said to the
store owner,
“Excuse me, I think
you don’t
understand.
What I need is a Papaya fruit and not
Papaya seeds.” The store owner replied
politely, “I am sorry but this is a seed store
and not a fruit store.”
DO WE REALLY KNOW OUR
CHILDREN?
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An Open Letter for Parents
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE

H.O.M.E.
HEAVEN

CHILDREN
HEAVEN AT HOME
“…heaven is the ultimate
end and fulfillment of the
deepest human longings,
the state of supreme,
definitive happiness.”
CCC 1024
IN THE FAMILY
Parents have the first responsibility for the
education of their children. They bear
witness to this responsibility first
by creating a home where tenderness,
forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and
disinterested service are the rule.

CCC 2223
 WHAT IS THE CENTER OF YOUR FAMILY?

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ORDERLINESS

Cleanliness is next to
GODLINESS.
DO YOU HAVE CLEAR AND
DEFINED RULES IN YOUR
HOUSE?
AUTOCRATIC PARENTS
 “Our aim is not to control the
people but rather to point out
consequences and give choices
to the people. That way it is not
manipulation but MOTIVATION.
Alan Loy McGinnis
Bringing Out the Best in People
PERMISSIVE PARENTS
Discipline

LEARN TO SAY NO.

Anything easily obtained
has NO VALUE.

“Don’t hesitate to discipline a child. It may save his life.”

Proverbs 23:13
RELATIONAL PARENTS
 Children can easily follow the
rules if there is a relationship
between them and their parents.
Relationships

“What a child doesn’t receive,

he cannot later give.”

– P.D. James
 They will
follow
because of
love and
not of fear.
If we want order and cleanliness in
our homes, we need to clean first
our inner selves.
Pornography Vices Cursing
PORNOGRAPHY
Moral faculties of the Pleasure faculties of the
brain becomes CLOSED brain becomes OPEN

It is not static, which leads you to ask for more.

TRUE LOVE WAITS.

Let them learn to love

you first before they
can truly love others.
MODEL
Living Example
“Children have more need
of models than of critics.”

Joseph Joubert
Author
The FAMILY that
prays together stays
TOGETHER.
EMBRACING
A home that embraces their
uniqueness and giftedness.
… examine, respectfully and
seriously, the situation of young
people, in order to find the situation
of the young people.
…each young person's heart should
thus be considered ‘holy ground’,
(CV 103, 67)
“Show me that you believe in me
so that I may believe in myself.”
Anonymous

Believe in your child.

EMPOWER
Get your teens viewpoint
 When Church sets aside narrow
preconceptions and listens carefully
to the young, this empathy enriches
her, for it allows young people to
make their own contribution to the
community, helping it to appreciate
new sensitivities and to consider new
questions. (CV 65)
Treat a man as he appears to be,
and you make him worse. But treat a
man as if he already were what he
potentially could be, and you make
him what he should be.

The Pygmalion Effect

Embrace HEALING
Write a letter of
AFFIRMATION
To your child.
Tell them how
wonderful they
are and how
much you love
them.
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affection

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 St. Martin de Porres

There is HOPE.
Mother Teresa

When it is most demanding

and you give cheerfully in
spite of that, that is LOVE at
its best.
 Build families
& communities that
welcome youth and
RADIATE CHRIST!

(CV 262, 243)

Thank
you!