How often do your children attend church/Sunday School/AWANA/Youth group?
What connections have you made in the community? Are your children involved in a play group, scouting or other activities offered on base?
How are you encouraging spiritual development in your child?
How are you helping your kids understand their spiritual responsibilities?
What boundaries have you set for your children? Have you explained why these boundaries are important? Are any of these boundaries different during deployment?
Have you discussed/established expectations for each of your children in their academic achievement, behavior, spiritual growth and family relationships?
How often do you pray with your children? What sorts of things do you pray about together?
What are the types of questions you ask your children? How well do you listen to their responses?
Do you feel like you are connecting with your children? If so, how? If not, do you know why?
How are you and your spouse parenting as a team? In what ways could you do better?
How do you and your spouse ensure consistency with your children while during deployment?
How often do you and your spouse talk about how things are going with the children? Do you each feel listened to and understood?
What do you do if there are issues that need to be addressed?
How does your life reflect the faith you are trying to teach your children? How could you live that out in a more tangible way?
How can you keep your husband involved in family mattes, while he is away, but also spare him the mundane?
If your husband is deployed, how will you balance taking care of so many things yourself while affirming to your children that your husband is still the head of the house?
When your husband does return, how can you make his transition home smooth and welcoming? How will you plan to begin decreasing your authority with the children so that his authority can increase?
When your wife returns, how can you make her transition home smooth and welcoming? How can you give her time to decompress without immediately assuming all of her parenting and household duties?
