Welcome to "Embrace Parenthood: the Webinar Series"!
Watch the recordings of seven one-hour webinars in which Alice Heinzen and Jeff Arrowood dig deeply into seven segments of "Embrace Parenthood" from the Teaching the Way of Love series.
You'll learn
- Authority: What true parental authority is, how it's tied to love and to God.
- Become Family: How Saint Pope John Paul II challenged families to embrace the vocation of marriage and family life by performing four "tasks of the family" in the Church and in society.
- Choose Charity: What real love is, how to express it to your children, and how to teach them to truly love as well.
- Develop Virtue: Why virtue is the key to parenting the heart of the child, not just the behavior.
- Expect Correct Behavior: Why having high expectations is good for your children, what expectations to set, and how to create and communicate those expectations to your children.
- Foster Faith: How to develop a family environment of prayer and devotion within your home.
- Imitate the Holy Family: How to handle conflict and trials together as a family in a way that fosters growth in strength and love.
Embrace Parenthood Webinar: Authority
Most of us bristle a bit about authority. Just think about how you feel about police officers and the laws you would rather not follow. So when it comes to exercising authority over our children as parents, we sometimes hesitate. We’d much rather love our children than tell them what to do. But if we understand parental authority according to God’s design, we can exercise it with confidence.
Embrace Parenthood Webinar: Become Family
In this session, Alice Heinzen and Jeff Arrowood show you how the four “tasks of the family” given to us by Saint Pope John Paul II can shape our family life according to God’s design. We also talk about specific ways to form a community of persons, to serve life, to engage in society, and to participate in the life and mission of the Church.
Embrace Parenthood Webinar Series: Choose Charity
The way our culture talks about love can be very confusing. To our culture, “love” is a mysterious, driving emotion. This emotion controls us, we don’t control it. That’s not the way Jesus understands love. In this session, Alice Heinzen and Jeff Arrowood will show you how to guide your children to choose to love, realizing that the choice to love may be different from emotions related to love. We’ll talk about how teaching respect of others, especially through manners and leading children to self-sacrifice within the context of the family can nurture the virtue of love (charity) in their hearts.
Embrace Parenthood: Develop Virtue
As Catholic parents, we know that we want our parenting to changing a child’s heart, not just behavior. Virtue is the key to “parenting the heart” of your child. In this session, Alice Heinzen and Jeff Arrowood talk about what virtue is and why it is important. They then explain the importance of modeling virtue for children, setting clear expectations for behavior based on God’s standards, engaging children in teachable moments regarding virtue, asking questions that engage thinking, and catching children being virtuous. We’ll especially focus on looking for opportunities to help children build prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice.
Embrace Parenthood Webinar Series: Imitate the Holy Family
While it’s almost certain that the Holy Family did not experience internal conflict, the Bible shares many stories that show that their life was one of trial, suffering, and sacrifice. But through it all, the Holy Family handled the conflict that came their way with trust in God and the grace of love and virtue. How can we model our own family on the Holy Family, whether the conflict and challenges we face come from outside our family or from within?