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What is your calling as a parent? In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything {28}right

Combining modern research, personal stories, professional experience, and real-life examples, Jeannie Cunnion shows parents how to embrace Gods grace and let go of the pressuresexternal and internalthat come with raising children. When it comes to their children, parents feel constant pressure to get everything right. They face overwhelming moments of weakness when they believe theyre doing it all wrong or feel like theyre not enoughleaving them...

A boy s endless imagination, hunger for adventure and passionate spirit are matched only by his deep desire to be affirmed, esteemed,and loved. Yet over the past few decades, our culture has adopted a model of parenting and educating children that doesn t affirm, celebrate, or embrace a boy s hunger, passion, or wildness but rather seeks to tame it. As a result, many parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors find themselves frustrated, confused, and...

A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientation. How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness. In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling...

What should you do when commonly accepted "parenting wisdom” just doesnt pass the smell test? From the moment you discover a child is on the way, well-meaning friends, family and even strangers start handing out advice. But that doesnt mean you have to take it. In Advice Worth Ignoring, Dr. Ray Guarendiclinical psychologist, author, nationally syndicated radio and television host and father of tenidentifies fifty of the most common parenting myths...

"Kara Powell and the team that brought you Sticky Faith use brand new research and real life stories to empower parents with three essential strategies for helping their teenage and young adult children build their faith, grow in their love for God, and value the church"--

When Rachel Balducci looks for material for her writing, she doesn't have to look far. Her subject matter can be found climbing through the window, hanging on to the edge of the roof, and rummaging through the refrigerator. Here she chronicles the exuberant, awesome life of boys through bizarre conversations overheard, unbelievable rules she's been forced to make, and the many episodes of boy behavior that continue to mystify mothers worldwide.

From the very first months after the first Conversations with God book was published in May, 1995, the demand began to appear for tools that would assist parents in teaching the marvelous concepts of this extraordinary dialogue to children. Conversations with God for Parents is a response to that request. In it, Neale joined with Laurie Lankins Farley and Emily Filmore, the directors of the School of the New Spirituality, to write a parenting book...

"Habits of the Household by award-winning author Justin Whitmel Earley equips you with simple habits for mealtimes, bedtimes, and other daily routines to shape your home in the rhythms of God's love"-- "Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond the chaos of family life as you create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other. You long for tender moments with...