1. You’re always on Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #1

2. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (MSG) 5 Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got! 6 Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you 7 and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. 8 Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; 9 inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.

3. Velocity and intimacy are enemies Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #2

4. Psalms 46:10a (NLT) “Be still, and know that I am God!

5. The happier you are the happier they are Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #3

6. Galatians 5:22-23 (MSG) 22 But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, 23 not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

7. Stay on your kids like a wet shirt Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #4

8. Proverbs 22:6 (NLT) Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.

9. Be an encourager Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #5

10. Job 29:24 (NLT) When they were discouraged, I smiled at them. My look of approval was precious to them.

11. Teach your kids that money isn’t everything Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #6

12. 1 Timothy 6:10 (MSG) Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after. Mark 8:36 (NLT) And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

13. Let go slowly Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #7

14. Get your kids in the right boat Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #8

15. You’re not the only parent with rules Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #9

16. Colossians 3:20 (NLT) Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.

17. Good seed planted in + good soil = good results Pastor Doug’s Top Ten Parenting Tips #10

18. Hebrews 13:16 (NLT) And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God. Luke 6:38 (MSG) Give away your life; you'll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity."