Renewed Online Parent Certification
Renewed Online Parent Certification
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The Parent’s Certification Course provides four short sessions that offer spiritual encouragement and refreshment for parents, as well as guidance on how to help their child prepare for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Parents receive a certificate of completion when they finish the course.
You will have online access for one year.
Presenters Include:
- Fr. Mike Schmitz
- Fr. Josh Johnson
- Sr. Josephine Garrett
- Mark Hart
- Jackie and Bobby Angel
- Emily Hussem Wilson and Daniel Hussem
Table of Content
- Session 1 "An Invitation"
- Session 1.1 An Invitation (Fr. Mike Schmitz with Sister Josephine Garrett, and Emily Wilson-Hussem and Daniel Hussem)
- Session 2 "What Is the Sacrament of Reconciliation?"
- Session 2.1 Mercy (Fr. Mike Schmitz)
- Session 3 "Reconciliation in Your Life"
- Session 3.1 Home Base (Emily Wilson-Hussem and Daniel Hussem)
- Session 3.2 Victory for You (Sister Josephine Garrett)
- Session 3.3 Embrace This Gift (Fr. Josh Johnson)
- Session 4 "Strategies to Accompany Your Child"
- Session 4.1 More Is Caught Than Taught (Jackie and Bobby Angel)
- Session 4.2 The Psychology of Reconciliation (Sister Josephine Garrett)
- Session 4.3 Restoring Relationships (Mark Hart)
The Renewed Parent Certification course includes a digital Renewed Parent’s Guide. Each lesson in your child’s book has a corresponding section in the Parent's Guide. Here is what you will find:
- Bird’s-Eye View: An explanation of the material your child will learn in the lesson.
- Make It Personal: Two opportunities for you as a parent to reflect on the major themes of your child’s lesson and explore the ways those themes apply to your own life. These sections include an invitation to reflect on some deeper questions related to the theme and explore your thoughts in writing.
- Pray: A chance to offer the thoughts from your reflection to God in prayer.
- Take-Home Activities: A review of the car conversation and family time prompts that your child is expected to complete each week, with tips, tricks, and ideas for you.
- Tough Questions: A look at some tough questions that your child may have after the lesson. It gives you a guide to approaching challenging conversations and a possible response to each question.
- Additional Resources: This includes Bible verses, Catechism references, videos, podcasts, and articles to help you dive deeper into the concepts covered in the lesson.
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My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed gong through the parent certification! There were a few points that didn’t quite apply to us since we are recent converts from the ACNA, (like the typical view of the sacrament being “hell-avoidance” as opposed to the gift it truly is). Otherwise it was great!
This program has been so fruitful for our Catechism families so far! One thing that would be helpful is to provide individual accounts for our families to complete the Parent Certification online. Many of our parents work schedules make it difficult for them to complete the course during specific meetings. Also, it would be helpful if the families had a login to complete lessons when the children are sick and cannot attend class.
The ascension workbook for myself was a thorough reminder of my Catholic faith. It helped me ask the right questions to my daughter. Her workbook was also a good mix of activities and reading. I will say some the chapters were very lengthy in the reading sections and could be reduced a bit. It was a lot to keep up with at times. All in all a wonderful resource for our family as my daughter prepares for Reconciliation.
It is a well-done useful resource in helping raise our little gifts from God in the beautiful truth that is our Catholic faith. Thank you, Ascension!
I am a grandmother completing this for my grandson so not alot applied as we only have partial custody. Videos by Sr. and Fr. Mike were excellent. Worth listening to.