Parents at La Jolla Christian Fellowship are running a Focus Parent’s and Families Workshop with Pastor Adam Stadtmiller from June 28 to July 12 at 6:30 p.m.
The church events section announced that this session would be a three-week workshop. This course is to help parents determine, prioritize, and live out their values. They added that parents who would participate could expect to finish the course with a working list of their priorities and realistic steps.
Adam Stadtmiller: Pastor, Writer
According to Adam Stadtmiller’s website, he is the Lead Pastor at one of San Diego’s most historic churches, La Jolla Christian Fellowship.
They also posted that Stadtmiller is a regular contributor to Christianity Today’s Leadership Journal.
He also wrote Praying for Your Elephant 2014, Give Your Kids the Keys 2012, and Discover Your Kid’s Spiritual Gifts 2010.
Besides, they noted that Stadtmiller has been married to his wife, Karrie, for 18 years and has two kids.
He earned his education from Point Loma Nazarene University with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. They added that later he went on to finish an MDiv at Azusa Pacific University.
Value of Parenting
The National Library of Medicine revealed that parenting might be society's essential public health issue.
They noted that parenting is the most significant variable in childhood illnesses and accidents, which include teenage pregnancy and drug misuse.
They added that parenting could affect absenteeism, school destruction, and underachievement.
Child abuse, unemployment, adolescent crime, and even mental sickness could be rooted in parenting.
The website stated that these cases are severe. But it is even more valuable as a precursor of issues in adulthood and the next generation.
These factors are why parenting is the top priority of British and other governments.
Moreover, the value of parenting exists on its part as a way to avoid difficulties. This problem includes poverty or delinquent impacts.
It could also lead to the mediator of damage in child abuse.
They added that parenting often involves biological parents but is not just about them. Guardians, teachers, nurses, and others who fulfill parenting roles with kids are also part of the process.
The website noted that there are three crucial components to parenting.
Components of Parenting
The first factor the website noted is that care guards children from danger.
They added that promoting emotional and physical health is part of caring for the kids.
The second component they mentioned is that control involves setting and enforcing rules to assure children’s and others’ security in various kinds of activity.
Also, they noted that development includes optimism about kids’ potential through maximizing the opportunities to utilize it, which is also part of a child's nourishment.
They said a sensible consensus exists about “bad parenting." But there is no agreement about its opposite, specifically in a diverse and fast-changing society.
The website also added more encouragement to sustain this complex and demanding task. Most parents care for their kids, sometimes despite tremendous difficulties.
They revealed that the desire to nurture and secure a child is not natural-born in humans.
As the website posts, it is learned and shaped through experience and current situations.
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