1. X3 Rock Your Family
Session 5: Building Relationships
With Your Teens

2. I Am The Parent
• Rules without relationship equals rebellion

3. Building Your Relationship
• How do you build that relationship with your
teenager?
• Hang with your sons; Date your daughters
• For teenagers, love is spelled T-I-M-E
• They want to be accepted and loved

4. Building Your Relationship
• You have to engage with teens when theyʼre
ready
• Get off the bench
• Get off the bench and get involved with your
kid whether he is two years old or sixteen

5. Building Your Relationship
• Engage them when theyʼre little
• Itʼs never to late to start
• With teens, stay up
• Do dinner together as a family

6. Building Your Relationship
• Figure out a way to help your sons or
daughters to do hard work
• Try to find other men and women to teach
some of these values
• Adversity builds character

7. Building Your Relationship
• Hit your knees
• Say less, pray more
• Teenagers are longing for your approval
• We underestimate the power we have as
parents in our teenagers lives
• Pick your battles

8. Homework
• Make a list of ways you can engage and
pursue a relationship with your teens
• Remember to ask for their input