Week 9 - KidCare

This video seminar helps you understand the effects of divorce on your children and offers practical suggestions for being an effective single parent. You’ll also learn how your children are processing the divorce and how you can help in their healing.

Week 9: KidCare
At times being a single parent seems to be an impossible job, especially when you are emotionally drained by the process of separation or divorce.

How can you survive? How can you help your children recover from their hurt? Is there any help available?

Even if you don’t have children, you will find this material to be strengthening and encouraging.

Day 1 — I need some rest
Maybe right now you are physically and emotionally exhausted, with no energy left to function, let alone parent. God promises help in times like these.

Read Matthew 11:28–30. What does God promise?

What is the key to claiming this promise?

Read Isaiah 40:29–31. How does God help the weary?

What do you need to do to receive God’s help? (verse 31)

Day 2 — Where do I get strength?

Read Deuteronomy 31:6. What is the source of strength described in this verse?

What is God’s promise?

Read Ephesians 6:10. What does this verse tell you to do?

What does “in the Lord” mean?

Read John 14:6. How do you receive God’s strength and protection?

Day 3 — What are my children learning from me?

Your children absorb much as they observe you. Be assured that they are watching and learning from both parents throughout the divorce process.

Read Deuteronomy 11:18–21. God wants you to place God’s Word (the Bible) in your heart and mind. He asks you to teach His Word to your children.

How are you to do this? (verses 18–19)

When are you to do this? (verse 19)

What is the effect? (verse 21)

Day 4 — What kind of home do I have?

Can a single parent home be a place where a child can grow and thrive? Can your child turn out well despite the obstacles and limitations?

Read Proverbs 14:26. What kind of home is described here?

What is the key to having a home like this?

To fear the Lord does not mean to be afraid of Him; rather, it means to honor and reverence Him, knowing that He is the almighty, powerful God.

Read Proverbs 20:7. What kind of person is described here?

What happens to this person’s children?

You cannot become righteous by trying hard to be a good person. Righteousness comes when you surrender your life to Christ and walk in His forgiveness and under His guidance.

Day 5 — I need wisdom to raise my children

There are no books, seminars or sources of advice that can fully prepare you for parenthood. Being a single parent takes an extra dose of wisdom. Where can you find such wisdom?

Read Proverbs 2:1–11. These proverbs promise wisdom from God. What is your part in receiving wisdom from God? (verses 1–4)

What are some of the effects of having wisdom in your life? (verses 5–11)