Public schools are inundated by values and diversity education programs. Parents are also trained to point the way. What a great opportunity for children's ministers to help children grab onto God's Word as the absolute authority. Millennials are family-centered . Cocooning is the need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
Families perceive extra commitments as a threat to their time together.
Therefore, it's very difficult to get families to commit to more than Sunday morning activities. In the Promise Keepers movement, men are re-evaluating their roles as husbands and fathers. They're making new commitments to their families. Working fathers now average 11 hours per week with their kids, or 94 minutes per day, up from a 1988 study in which they spent only three hours a week, or 26 minutes a day, with their children. Children's ministers cry out for help in training parents to train their children.