Parenting Through the Developmental Stages - Dave and Claire Patty

One of the challenges of parenting is the steady change that is required to adapt to a child’s growth. Parenting a grade school student is very different than parenting a teenager, and the best strategies for one phase of a child’s life may be the very worst for the next. Developmental psychologists have discovered that children move through predictable stages of development that can be understood and responded to. What are these stages and how do they affect parenting? How can a believer purposefully parent through the stages in a way that shapes their child’s behavior, draws them to God and develops maturity? Dave will be joined by his daughter, Claire, a children’s education specialist, for this practical seminar.

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Dave Patty has been involved in training youth leaders and leading national and international youth movements in Europe for over 30 years. He serves as the president of Josiah Venture. He is also a founding member of Concentric, which mobilizes and equips youth ministry trainers in over 60 countries of the world. Dave is an ordained pastor with a BA in theology and a MA in education. He has also done graduate work in leadership development at Harvard University. For the past 30 years he has lived in the Czech Republic, and he spent the 10 years before that in Germany. Dave is married to Connie and has three grown children, Tyler, Caleb, and Claire.

Claire Patty grew up in the Czech Republic as the daughter of missionaries, Dave and Connie Patty. From a young age, she was impacted by being raised in a cross-cultural setting and seeing the gospel transform lives. After graduating from a Czech national school, she completed her BA in Bible and Children’s Ministry at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. An internship in 2016 at Mission Training International equipped her to provide pre-field training and debriefing for missionary kids and their families. It was there that God deepened her desire to see these children cared for on the field. Claire now serves the Josiah Venture team as the JV Kids director and her role involves coming alongside children of missionaries and their families across Central and Eastern Europe to serve and equip them in the challenges they face, helping them thrive in their local churches and countries where they live. She is based out of the Czech Republic.

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