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As Christian parents, we can make an important difference in our children’s emotional and spiritual growth by sharing the Bible’s spiritual plumblines with them. These will guide them for the rest of their lives—not just through puberty and the teenage years, but even to their adult lives and through marriage.

And we have God to help us. As He has given us this mission of imparting His commandments to our children, I believe He will give us the strength, wisdom, and discernment to do so.

That means we can lean on God and keep turning to Him for help to teach our children—His children. Ask Him to guide and lead you in this challenging endeavour. Ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to the opportunities He will give you, and your heart to sense the prompting to talk to your children.

And keep praying for your children, for God, who loves them more than we ever can, will answer our prayers for our children according to His good plans for them. I believe you will find in your joyous moments, and even in your moments of deepest challenges in parenting, that He is always there, only a prayer away.

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Are you worried about the messages your child is absorbing from the media and pop culture that he or she is exposed to? Yet, at the same time, you feel inadequate and unsure of how to talk to your child about love, sex, and marriage from a biblical worldview?

In this booklet, Dr Cheah Fung Fong offers a biblical and practical approach to starting conversations with our children about key issues like puberty, infatuation, love, marriage, and pornography.

Cheah Fung Fong is a medical doctor and frequent speaker at Christian parenting workshops and conferences. A firm believer in faith formation in families, she is deeply involved in children’s ministries in the Methodist Church in Singapore and the D6 Family Ministry.

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