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Raising Christian Children in a Secular World: Christian Parenting

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Cheryl Dickow, speaker and author, deftly combines parenthood, scripture, and simple activities in an enjoyable, timely book. This latest edition of her first popular book of the same name, involves the reader more closely with relevant scripture meditations and weekly activities that make the chapter messages of priorities, judgment, fruits of the spirit, and blessings; among many others, truly come alive. Each chapter also includes an opportunity for journal entries. An excellent book that is both easy to read and quite insightful. "Raising Christian Children in a Secular World" uses a gentle approach in guiding parents to Scripture as the foundation on which to build successful Christian homes. Each chapter includes an activity that encourages parents to embrace such messages as responsibility, diligence, and compassion. Mrs. Dickow's honest tone lets the reader know that she, too, experiences the struggles of parenthood and shares with everyone the belief that turning to God's Word is the only answer.

The Ministry of Motherhood: Following Christ’s Example in Reaching the Hearts of Our Children

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Because Motherhood Isnâ��t Just a Job. Itâ��s a Calling. A motherâ��s day is packed with a multitude of tasks that require energy and time: preparing meals, washing clothes, straightening and cleaning the house, and caring for children. These jobs all are necessary and crucially important. But in the dailyness of providing for a childâ��s physical, emotional, and social needs, vital opportunities for spiritual nurture and training can be overlooked. This doesnâ��t have to be the case. You can focus your energy on what matters most. Learn how you can: â�¢ Make Lifeâ��s Mundane and Nitty-Gritty Moments Work for You and Not Against You.â�¢ Discover Ways to Make Character-Building a Natural Part of Live.â�¢ Teach Your Child in the Same Way Jesus Taught the Disciples.â�¢ Pass on Crucial Gifts that Will Serve Your Family for a Lifetime.Using biblical wisdom and practical teachings, Sally Clarkson shows how you can make a lasting difference in your childâ��s life by following the pattern Christ set with his own disciplesâ��a model that will inspire and equip you to intentionally embrace the rewarding, desperately needed, and immeasurably valuable Ministry of Motherhood.

Parenting With Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments

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Equipping parents with scriptural guidance and activities for teachable moments.It's inevitable that children from toddlers to teens will misbehave. It's tempting to discipline them and let the moment pass. Kara Durbin's passion is for parents to capture those teachable moments and use Scripture to shape their children's behavior. She offers Parenting With Scripture, a unique topical guide to prepare parents with scriptural teaching and helpful activities on 100 specific behaviors.

Don’t Make Me Count to Three: a Mom’s Look at Heart-Oriented Discipline

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Do you find yourself threatening, repeating your instructions, or raising your voice in an attempt to get your children to obey? Are you discouraged because it seems you just can not reach the heart of your child? Through personal experience and the practical application of Scripture, Ginger Plowman encourages and equips moms to reach past the outward behavior of their children and dive deeply into the issues of the heart. Her candid approach will help moms move beyond the frustrations of not knowing how to handle issues of disobedience and into a confident, well balanced approach to raising their children.

Bringing Up Boys

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Sensible advice and caring encouragement on raising boys from the nation's most trusted parenting expert, Dr.James Dobson. With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it's no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and others involved in shaping the character of boys have lots of questions. In Bringing Up Boys, Dr. Dobson tackles these questions and offers advice and encouragement based on a firm foundation of biblical principles.

Parenting the Way God Parents: Refusing to Recycle Your Parents’ Mistakes

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Divine Parenting Made Possible Every parent wants to do his or her job well. But if you look to your family of origin, or try to follow a list of dos and donâ��ts, you will fail. Thankfully, God sets a model as Parent, and all you have to do is follow it! In Parenting the Way God Parents, Katherine Koonce shows how healthy parenting patterns will flow naturally when you parent from your godly heritage. By way of thought-provoking study, discussion questions, and scriptural snapshots, youâ��ll begin addressing not just your childrenâ��s behavior, but the important heart issues that shape their character. When you adopt God the Fatherâ��s perfect understanding of His children and prayerfully obey His example, your children canâ��t help but become healthy, whole, and thriving! The Perfect Parenting Plan Kids will be kids, and parents will becomeâ�¦just like their own parents. Even with the best intentions, parents will default to raising their kids just as they were raisedâ��unless they embrace a revolutionary approach to parenting. Thank God, because He provides the better way. He has everything you need for parenting your children in the grace, discipline, and love with which He parents you. Child development and learning specialist Katherine Koonce comes alongside to offer you a fresh perspective that will redirect your parenting path. Parenting the Way God Parents will help you: Discern valid rights from selfish wants in this age of entitlement Be prepared for anger, and help your children prepare for it too T ake an active, prayerful role in seeking Godâ��s vision for your family Focus on shaping your childrenâ��s hearts, not just their behavior Set aside parenting how-to books full of dos and donâ��ts and embrace the One who parents you perfectly. â��Knowing Katherine as a gifted teacher at the school my children attend, itâ��s evident that she has a great deal of wisdom and insight.â�� Steven Curtis Chapman Singer/songwriter â��Parenting the Way God Parents is refreshingly free of formulas, and packed full of wisdom and valuable insight. I will reread it for myself and recommend it again and again in my practice.â�� David Thomas Child and Adolescent Therapist Coauthor of Becoming a Dad: A Spiritual, Emotional and Practical Guide Story Behind the Bookâ��Like most parents, I was not prepared for the job. Again and again I found myself defaulting to the parenting tactics and family dynamics recycled from my childhood. God convinced me that there was a better way. Rather than parent the way I was as a child, I can choose to parent the way I am Parented today. God my Father parents me with excellence, and I want to continue that legacy with my children. In choosing this paradigm of childrearing, however, Iâ��ve had to lay down my little bag of parenting tricks and embrace the One who parents me perfectly.â�� â��Katherine Koonce

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Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

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In todayâ��s increasingly complicated world, itâ��s often difficult for parents to connect with their daughtersâ��and especially so for fathers. In this unique and invaluable guide, Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty yearsâ�� experience counseling girls, reveals that a young womanâ��s relationship with her father is far more important than weâ��ve ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her fatherâ��s attention, protection, courage, and wisdom. Dr. Meeker shares the ten secrets every father needs to know in order to strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her lifeâ��and his ownâ��for the better. Inside youâ��ll discover:â�¢ the essential virtues of strong fathersâ��and how to develop them â�¢ the cues daughters take from their dads on everything from self-respect to drugs, alcohol, and sexâ�¢ the truth about ground rules (girls do want them, despite their protests)â�¢ the importance of becoming a hero to your daughterâ�¢ the biggest mistake a dad can makeâ��and the ramificationsâ�¢ the fact that girls actually depend on their dadsâ�� guidance into adulthoodâ�¢ steps fathers can follow to help daughters avoid disastrous decisions and mistakesâ�¢ ways in which a fatherâ��s faithâ��or lack thereofâ��will influence his daughterâ�¢ essential communication strategies for different stages of a girlâ��s lifeâ�¢ true stories of â��prodigal daughtersâ��â��and how their fathers helped to bring them back Dads, you are far more powerful than you thinkâ��and if you follow Dr. Meekerâ��s advice, the rewards will be unmatched.â��Reassuring and challenging . . . a helpful road map for concerned fathers [that] tackles difficult issues.â��â��National Reviewâ��A touching, illuminating book that will prove valuable to all of us who are fortunate enough to have been blessed with daughters.â��â��Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, author of Right Turnsâ��Dr. Meekerâ��s conclusions are timely, relevant, and often deeply moving. No one interested in what girls experience growing up in our culture todayâ��and the impact that parents, especially fathers, have on the experienceâ��can afford to miss reading this book.â��â��Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D., professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Raising Kids for True Greatness: Redefine Success for You and Your Child

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Sometimes greatness is measured by possessions or power and parents become preoccupied with raising "resume" and "pedigree" children. Yet true greatness is an internal evidence of attitudes and a heart known for humility, compassion, graciousness, and enthusiasm. Author and speaker Dr. Tim Kimmel identifies the three most critical and life-changing decisions that will make the difference. According to Kimmel, preparing your children to determine what they will do (their mission), who they will do it with (their mate), and who they will do it for (their master) is the greatest gift you could give them. Raising Kids for True Greatness will expose the shallow wisdom of the world, giving parents a road map to guide their children toward rich lives of eternal value and significance.

The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child’s Heart for Eternity

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There is no greater, nobler, or more fulfilling calling than that of motherhood. Every day, as they nurture their children, mothers influence eternal destiny as no one else can. Yet often women are drawn to seek fulfillment outside of Godâ��s design, despite their inherent desire to embrace motherhood with their whole hearts. Todayâ��s culture minimizes the vital importance of a motherâ��s role. By catching a vision of Godâ��s original design and allowing it to shape their lives, mothers can rediscover the joy and fulfillment to be found in the strategic role to which God has called themâ��for a purpose far greater than they can imagine. In The Mission of Motherhood, author, speaker, and mother Sally Clarkson closely examines this God-ordained plan for mothers, introduced in the book of Genesis and upheld throughout his Word. Using practical examples, her own personal anecdotes, a challenging vision, and sound scriptural support, Clarkson upholds the traditional, biblical view of Godâ��s plan for motherhoodâ��giving mothers exactly the support they need to persevere in cultivating and sharing their hearts for God, for their children, and for their homes.

And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity

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'As a mother of two teenage daughters, I cannot think of any book more beautifully inspiring than And the Bride Wore White. My daughters love Dannah's insights, humor and her call for a life without regrets...I am deeply grateful for the realistic role model she is for my daughters...she has changed their lives and in doing so she has changed mine.' Tammy Maltby, author and co-host of Emmy nominated Aspiring Women.Dannah Gresh's And the Bride Wore White exposes our culture's lies about sex, and prepares young women and girls for the world's pressures. In this special edition there will be dozens of stories/personal testimonies of hurt and healing...first time salvations...confessions to parents that lead to accountability...and lots of wedding proposals, of course.