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Rites of Passage


bcsm wants to help you leave a rich inheritance to your teenager of the stuff that really matters.

 That is why we are developing our seven Rites of Passage. These Rites of Passage are simply conversational experiences. We want to help you have the conversations with your teenager that matter the most and give you the tools to infuse faith into the most import moments in life.

Here are the seven Rites of Passage we are going to encourage you to lead your teenager through:

· 6th Grade – Adolescence

· 7th Grade – A Blessing

· 8th Grade – Sex

· 9th Grade – Family

· 10th Grade – Driving

· 11th Grade – Money

· 12th Grade – Adulthood

The seven Rites of Passage are just a piece of theblope.com a comprehensive online parenting class and library of parenting materials that we are developing based on a resource called ministrytoparents.com. I hope that you will find it extremely helpful and informative as you parent your students.

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