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    Wisdom On ... Getting Along with Parents
    Wisdom On ... Getting Along with Parents
    Wisdom On ... Getting Along with Parents
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    Wisdom On ... Getting Along with Parents

    By Mark Matlock

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    Wisdom On…Getting Along with Parents can help you understand both sides a little better and improve your relationship. This book is about giving you insight and understanding into the dynamics of your relationship with your parents, and helping you learn to use wisdom when you interact with them. You’ll walk away from this book with a whole new perspective on the relationship you have with your parents, and how to have an even better one.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateAug 30, 2009
    ISBN9780310864813
    Wisdom On ... Getting Along with Parents
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    Mark Matlock

    Mark Matlock has been working with youth pastors, students, and parents for more than two decades. He’s the Executive director of Youth Specialties and founder of WisdomWorks Ministries and PlanetWisdom. He’s the author of several books including The Wisdom On series, Living a Life That Matters, Don’t Buy the Lie, and Raising Wise Children. Mark lives in Texas with his wife, Jade, and their two teenage children.

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      Wisdom On ... Getting Along with Parents - Mark Matlock

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      INVERT YOUTH SPECIALTIES

      WISDOM ON...GETTING ALONG WITH PARENTS

      Copyright 2008 by Mark Matlock

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition June 2009 ISBN: 0-310-86481-X

      Youth Specialties resources, 300 S. Pierce St., El Cajon, CA 92020 are published by Zondervan, 5300 Patterson Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49530.

      ISBN 978-0-310-27929-7

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other — except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Web site addresses listed in this book were current at the time of publication. Please contact Youth Specialties via e-mail (YS@YouthSpecialties. com) to report URLs that are no longer operational and replacement URLs if available.

      Cover design by SharpSeven Design

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      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my grandparents, George and Nora Matlock and Ray and Ruth Albrecht. They were good friends before my parents fell in love, and they helped start the church I grew up in. Not only have they been essential in my spiritual growth and maturity, they made MY parents!

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COVER PAGE

      TITLE PAGE

      COPYRIGHT PAGE

      CHAPTER 1: WISDOM ON PARENTS? REALLY?

      CHAPTER 2: IMAGINE THAT!

      CHAPTER 3: WHAT GOD TELLS YOUR PARENTS TO DO

      CHAPTER 4: WHAT GOD TELLS KIDS TO DO

      CHAPTER 5: WISE AND STUBBORN HONOR

      CHAPTER 6: INTERVIEWING YOUR PARENTS

      CHAPTER 7: WHY PARENTS AND TEENAGERS FIGHT

      CHAPTER 8: TRUE INDEPENDENCE

      CHAPTER 9: THE FINE ART OF PARENTAL NEGOTIATION

      CHAPTER 10: MINISTER TO MY PARENTS?

      CHAPTER 11: WRITE A RELATIONSHIP LETTER TO MY PARENTS

      CHAPTER 12: CASE STUDIES

      CHAPTER 13: FINAL NOTE: WHEN PARENTS ARE ABUSIVE

      ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

      SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      A big thanks to everyone who has helped make this series a reality: Chris Lyon, fellow friend and writer; Randy Southern, for excellent editing and feedback; Holly Sharp, for the cool covers; Roni Meek and Jay Howver at Youth Specialties; and the others I haven’t met who had to correct my spelling and punctuation. Thank you all. You make your parents proud.

      CHAPTER 1

      WISDOM ON PARENTS?

      REALLY?

      My dad and I had been working outside all Saturday morning. My father loves to prune trees and bushes, and on our three acres there were plenty of trees and bushes to clip.

      On this particular Saturday morning, I’d been recruited to help my dad—whether I liked it or not. My job was to deliver wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow full of clippings to the dumpster. The piles seemed endless to me. And my father had no intention of stopping. Needless to say, I was less than thrilled about spending my Saturday doing yard work.

      When the dumpster was full, I assumed we were done for the day. So when my dad moved on to another tree, my blood started to boil.

      Let’s take a break for a moment, my father finally suggested. As we sat in the shade, my dad started giving me a hard time about my attitude. He knew I wasn’t happy, but his feeble attempts to cheer me up only fueled my frustration. Then something bad happened.

      My dad started mimicking my pouting face, and I decided I’d had enough. In the heat of the moment, I did something I’d never done before—and have never done since. I punched my father—right in the chest.

      He was stunned. I was stunned. Hitting was unacceptable in my family. Where had my violent outburst come from? I didn’t pause to wonder. Instead, I started running. And my dad started running after me.

      My dad hadn’t chased me since I was in elementary school, but I remembered that I’d never been able to get away from him. He always caught me. But things had changed since then. Now I was 15 years old, and my dad was also much older. And I was on the track and field team at my high school.

      I sprinted across our three acres to a corner of the property furthest from our house. I didn’t look back because I was afraid that if I did, I’d see my dad’s arm reaching out to grab me. But when I got to the fence at the back of the property, I had no

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