(*If you want to read the seven page article, go to the article section and read it.)
1. Get your values straight.
2. Get clearly in your mind that your kids are your greatest God-given responsibility as a disciple.
3. Determine that you will do your best job with your kids.
4. Realize that character is first caught and taught second.
5. Identify, confess, and put to death your own deeply-seated sinful desires for your kids.
6. Expose your kids and yourselves, early and often, to the very best Christian role-models you can find.
7. Do whatever it takes to get your kids in a great youth ministry.
8. Make your kids laugh.
9. Desensitize them to needing to be “normal.”
10. Be their biggest fan, not their biggest critic.
11. Love and respect their other parent!
12. Make them mind you.
13. Don’t make them play second-fiddle to television and the newspaper.
14. Pray fervently for your kids.
15. Talk to them a whole, whole lot.
16. Be there, and when you are there, be THERE.
17. Threaten them. (I know, read the article.)
18. Snoop and be nosey sometimes.
19. Give them fun, meaningful traditions.
20. Lead in first things first.
21. Make them eat vegetables.
22. And, for goodness sakes, be human and humble and learn to say you’re sorry.