This document discusses the importance of Christian families and effective parent-child communication. It notes that modern issues like a fast-paced life and secularization influence adolescents' values. It emphasizes that families are rooted in Christ and should guard, reveal, and communicate love as a community. The document recommends that parents understand, connect with, motivate, and support their teens through open communication and discussion. It stresses that youth and family ministries in the Church should help promote strong Christian families and ensure pastoral care for families.

3. family

4. “…We cannot form Christian families
without Christian marriage.”

6. family
“to prevent further damage in family
living & to strengthen those families
who are already doing well”

10. Parent-Child
encounter

11. HOW?

12. fast paced life,
industrialization,
modernization – urbanization,
& secularization
adolescent’s values are very much
influenced by the subculture of the

13. ROOTED
in CHRIST

14. “to GUARD, REVEAL, &
COMMUNICATE LOVE”

15. “forming a community
of persons”

16. “serving life”

17. “participating in the
development of society”

18. “sharing in the mission
of the Church”

19. “ A SCHOOL OF
DEEPER HUMANITY”

20. SELF-DONATION
SELF-DISCLOSURE

25. COLLECTIVISTIC &
HIERARCHICAL

26. FAMILY ORIENTED

27. HIGLY CONTEXTUAL

28. KARINA GALANG FERNANDEZ

29. SELF-AWARE
SELF-ASSURED
SELF-PROPELLING

30. TO
UNDERSTAND
TO CONNECT
TO MOTIVATE
TO SUPPORT

31. Parents need
to know their
teens
TO
UNDERSTAND

32. TO CONNECT
Parents need
to listen,
discuss, &
prepare to act
with their
teens.

33. TO MOTIVATE
Parents need
to help
motivate
teens through
growth
mindset.

34. TO SUPPORT
Parents need
to ask their
teens the
support they
need.

36. - In Effective communication… parents
must act as facilitators in family
communication.
- Family communication involves a process
of holistic/integral approach.
- ministers and pastor of the Church should
at least be reminded to be more passionate
in bringing change in the life of people in
their locality esp. the families.

37. - Youth Ministry and Family Ministries
should help their local church promote
Christian families.
- Pastoral care for the families must be
one of the top agendas in a parish or
Christian community

38. - The very outcome of the suggested
program in the guise of skills training in
communication is in reality to form
committed Disciples of Christ.
- … making them feel that Jesus is reaching
out to them.
- The basic happiness of young Filipino people is
very much attached to a happy family.

39. “The ability of the families to
survive these changes suggests
that families are flexible and that
their flexibility is aided by how
family members communicate.”