5. What Is The Problem?

Al Friesen proposes creative and effective ways for parents to understand how to identify and acknowledge an issue they are facing with their children, how to examine different potential solutions, learn to determine who the problem really belongs to, and then find effective ways to express feelings to your child, as you continue to build a well-functioning family unit.

6. How to Be Responsible

In this session, Al Friesen suggests how to identify various commonly employed parental methods – authoritarian, permissive, and responsible. He then examines the effects of using reward and punishment or consequences on your child.

7. How to Avoid Being Manipulated

This next lesson's considers methods for parents become pro-active instead of reactive and, more importantly, choose the correct action, as they seek to build a healthy family unit.

8. Finding Solutions to Problems

Do you struggle with “finding solutions to problems” in your home? Most of us do. Al Friesen will suggests how to learn to understand, how to be in control in a non-threatening way, and learn to work together as you continue to build a well-functioning family unit.

Program 3

9. Being Responsible

This lesson will suggest creative and effective ways for parents to learn to assertively stand on their own when raising their children by clearly identifying their goals, by not being controlled by the opinions of others, and by and taking advantage of their own strengths, as they build a strong family unit.

10. Using Discipline

Using discipline correctly and effectively is one of the biggest challenges parents face. Session 10 examines this essential area of parenting by using discipline as a preventive measure, by anticipating the child, being creative, and creating rules that serve as a backbone for learning, not a brick wall. This is accomplished by setting up firm, friendly, fair fences, which then gives freedom to both the parent and the child.

11. Children's Needs

This session teaches parents what the very basic needs are for young people and adults alike. In general, these needs relate to their age but more specifically, that when children “set the fences” in the home, everyone becomes more insecure, and when the parents set those boundaries everyone becomes more secure.

12. Dealing with Brokenness in Our Relationships

Gives a final word to parents on dealing with problems in a step by step way. Al Friesen will also presents the “Ten Practical Commandments” to live by, and how to repair broken relationships in the home, as they seek to build a well-functioning family unit.

Program 4

13. Five Area's of Growth

Features seven lesson's which suggest creative and effective ways for children, teens, parents and other significant adults to learn how to grow and build relationships in the five basic areas of a person's life. As children grow up, they need to learn, from our example and teaching, that unless all five areas are developed and employed, our relationship building and growth is very fragmented.

14. Happier Living and Growing Kids for Jesus

The first three lesson's will suggest creative and effective ways for children, teens, parents, and other adults to learn how to find true happiness, and stop looking for it in the wrong places. The forth lesson will give us God's recipe for growing children.  Namely, the basic things they need to become what God has intended for them to become.

15. Christian Dating

Creatively and effectively teach teens, parents, and other significant adults the what, where, when, why, and how and how long of Christian dating. Very basic, practical, and safe ideas for dating for young people and adults alike will be explored.

16: What Turns Teens Away From and Toward Jesus While Growing Up in a Christian Home?

Provides a clear word to parents (and other significant adults) what kinds of things parents do that turn teenagers away from Jesus and what kinds of things parents can do that turn teens towards Jesus. We parents will have a clearer picture as to what things to avoid, and what practical things we need to embrace, as we seek to build a well-functioning family unit.

Program 5 (coming soon)

17. Anger Management

In seven lessons Al Friesen will seek to explain and effectively teach teens, parents, and other significant adults what the Bible tells us about anger, how to learn to manage our anger, how to connect with God’s strength for this, and how God will deal with those who use anger and rage throughout their lives.

18. Temper Tantrums

This set of six lessons will broach these very important questions: How do we deal with out-of-control temper tantrums among adults, teenagers, and children — in our homes?  In our schools?  In our churches?  In our neighbourhoods?  On the streets? And in our work places? 

19. Fighting Fairly

Seeks to explain and practically teach teens, parents, and other significant adults what the Bible tells us about fighting fairly in our homes, schools, churches, neighbourhoods, work places and on our streets.  He will show us how not to do it and how to do it the Ephesians 4:26 way.

20. Growing a Stronger Family

This set of five lessons will broach these very important concepts, as flagged by the following questions:  What seven pillars do mom and dad consistently live out in their lives, as models for their children and their children’s friends to learn to live by in their lives?  How do families foster unity in their homes?  What key support gifts do we give each other?  How do routines contribute to family-ness?  Which fence-builders bring security, and which rob the family of security, and why?