Shame Based Parenting:

Shame based parenting makes withdrawals from a child emotionally.
Parental communication to children gives more than information, it gives identity.
Shame base parenting may win you the battle, but in the end you will lose the war.
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not embitter (exasperate) your children, or they will become discouraged.

AWE Based Parenting.

AWE: Affirmation, warmth, and encouragement.
AWE based Parenting makes deposits.

Affirmation:
Warmth:
Encouragement:

Put aside our own agenda
Be intentional with the time you have
Proverbs 15:1 reminds us, ‘A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 18:21 Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose. (MSG)

What should we communicate?

Love:
Identity:
I John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
I Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Value:
Spiritual Formation:

Be intentional.