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How You Always Meant to Parent

How You Always Meant to Parent

Discover a practical approach to parenting with great insight into overcoming the distractions life throws at every family. Brian Housman gives broad principles that incorporate spiritual truths vital to maintaining spiritual engagement even through the difficult teen years.

The 5 Love Languages of Children

The 5 Love Languages of Children

Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child.

Trophy Child: Saving Parents from Performance, Preparing Children for Something Greater Than Themselves

Trophy Child: Saving Parents from Performance, Preparing Children for Something Greater Than Themselves

Written for every mom who helps too much with homework just to impress the teacher and every dad who takes credit for his daughter’s soccer success, Trophy Child will give parents the encouragement they need to nurture their kids into who God created them to be. Our culture’s obsession with achievement often leads parents to form expectations for their kids based on the world’s standards, not on the Bible. As a result, their kids feel they never measure up. Trophy Child will help modern Christian parents create a home where children find success in following their heavenly Father’s leading for them—and readers know the joy of seeing their children embrace their full potential as children of God.

Modern Parents, Vintage Values: Instilling Character in Today's Kids

Modern Parents, Vintage Values: Instilling Character in Today's Kids

What do I do when my son learns phrases in school that he's not allowed to say at home? How do I teach my daughter caution but not fear? How do I teach my daughter about gratitude when she believes she is entitled to a cell phone and a laptop and everything else that not only she wants, but that all of the kids around her already have?

The Back Door To Your Teen's Heart: Learning What They Need and Helping Thiem Find It

The Back Door To Your Teen's Heart: Learning What They Need and Helping Thiem Find It

To the degree that kids can predict you, they will dismiss you. And, most likely, any of us who have ever lived with, taught, counseled, and loved adolescents have felt the sting of dismissal. It feels like everything we try bounces off the shell these kids develop around 10-12 years of age.

Raising Boys and Girls: The Art of Understanding the Differences

Raising Boys and Girls: The Art of Understanding the Differences

Parents, grandparents, church volunteers, and other caregivers of children from preschool to high school can learn to better connect with their kids. As adults understand the differences in girls and boys, they can learn to use tools that will help them communicate, understand, and connect with kids of all ages.