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Raising The Challenging Child
$18.49Add to cartWhat’s the worst you’ve ever faced as a parent? An all-out tantrum at the mall? A son who won’t take out his earbuds to listen to you? A daughter who’s failing at school and won’t do her homework? A teen who constantly breaks curfew? A call from the police? Whatever you’re dealing with, Raising the Challenging Child will help.
Building on their work at Chaddock, a nonprofit organization that has worked with some of the most challenging kids in the nation for more than 150 years, the authors empower frustrated parents with practical tips and real-life examples on how to:
– minimize behavioral meltdowns
– reduce conflict
– increase cooperation
– promote healthy attachment
– improve family relationshipsThe strategies they share work both for the child who is going through a difficult phase brought on by life disruption or trauma, and for the child who faces chronic struggles. Parents, teachers, and those who work with children and youth will find positive, practical steps they can start taking today in order to understand and address the baffling behavior of the child under their care.
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When Your Kid Is Hurting
$20.99Add to cartAs parents, we have a strong impulse to protect our children, but that very protection can end up handicapping them for life. Rather than seek to save them from the hard things, we must teach our kids how to cope with and rise above their problems. In one of his most important books to date, internationally known psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman shows parents how to:
– be good listeners
– tell the truth, even when it’s difficult
– find balance between being protective and being overprotective
– approach hurt and injustice as a learning experience rather than fostering a victim mentality
– and much moreWhether a child is dealing with a difficult family situation, bullies, the loss of friends, the death of a loved one, discrimination, abuse, a teen pregnancy, or even just trying to make sense of what they see in the news, this compassionate and practical book will help parents equip them to process, learn from, and rise above their situation.
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Above Suffering And Guilt
$1.60Add to cartOne of the most difficult things about this life to accept, and even more difficult to understand, is pain and suffering. If God is good, then how can we explain the presence of evil, death, and pain? Also, learn the four necessary steps in dealing with sin and guilt.
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Single Parent : Confident And Successful
$18.49Add to cartWhether you became a single parent through divorce, death, adoption, or some other situation, you’ve probably wondered what the future holds for you and your children. Will you be able to provide the emotional, financial, and spiritual support your family needs?
The Single Parent will encourage you in your journey and help avert problems before they arise. It is filled with wise counsel, biblical truth, and real-life stories–the author’s own as well as those of the many single moms and dads who have come across her path through the years. It will help you bolster your abilities in such areas as
– improving your child’s behavior
– negotiating boundaries
– graciously seeking and accepting help from others
– trusting God in the processGod cares for the single parent and will provide for you and your children. Let this book give you the tools you need as you walk with him in this journey.
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Parenting Beyond The Rules
$21.99Add to cartParenting teens is one of the most challenging seasons of parenting, isn’t it? While this can be a difficult time of transition for parents and teens, there is hope. You can parent well and build a stronger relationship even through the teen years.
After 30 years of parenting five children and 20 years of working with teens, Connie Albers has witnessed the negative impact of well-intentioned but misguided parenting styles, all focused on managing teens rather than guiding them. But through learning to focus on the hearts of your teens, you can avoid those pitfalls and build relationships that last beyond the transition years as you intentionally learn about, connect with, and listen to your teens. In a world filled with distractions and devices, it is possible to guide their hearts and remain the primary influence in their lives. In Parenting beyond the Rules, you will discover how to raise a teen according to his or her strengths, talents, and personality type, as these things equip teens to manage life.
Join Connie Albers in discovering practical solutions for every parent trying to raise a responsible, godly teenager.
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Art Of Parenting
$24.99Add to cartExpanding on parenting themes shared with FamilyLife audiences, bestselling authors Dennis and Barbara offer trusted advice on how to establish Christian values in your home. By focusing on the crucial elements of identity, character, relationship, and mission, you will give your children a foundation they can build upon for the rest of their lives.
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Devotions For Sacred Parenting
$21.00Add to cartRaising children is a sacred calling-and not for the faint of heart. It shapes the parent every bit as much as parents shape their children. In Devotions for Sacred Parenting, Gary Thomas, author of Sacred Parenting, delves deeper into the conversation and contemplates the soul-transforming journey of being a parent.Many books have been written about how to parent your children effectively, how to become a better parent, and how effective parenting produces better kids. Devotions for Sacred Parenting explores an entirely different reality: how parenting transforms you, the parent. It explores the spiritual dynamics of parenting and why caring for your children is such an effective discipline in shaping your soul and forming the character of Christ within you.With all new material, 52 devotions explore the spiritual dynamics of parenting. These life-related devotions are creative, fresh, and encouraging, inspiring mothers and fathers to look at parenting from a different perspective-as a holy and high calling from God, and as an opportunity to grow spiritually as you strive to raise godly children. Devotions for Sacred Parenting helps you understand how God is parenting you as you parent your children.
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8 Great Smarts
$18.99Add to cartHelp your children be smart with “their “smarts
At one time or another, most kids will ask (or secretly wonder), Am I smart’ But a better question is, In what “way” am I smart’ Dr. Kathy Koch s down-to-earth and practical guide to the theory of multiple intelligences helps parents and teachers discern and develop their children s unique wiring.“8 Great Smarts “will help you:
*Identify how your child can best learn and study
*Explore your child s characteristic spiritual struggles and his or her ways of connecting to God
*Learn how you can awaken and nurture your child s weaker intelligences
*Uncover how your behavior can paralyze your child s smarts, and what to do about it
*Recognize how your child s misbehavior may be connected to his or her strengths
*Discover creative teaching methods and potential careers that are ideal for each intelligenceEvery child is some combination of the following smarts: “word, logic, picture, music, body, nature, people, “and” self.” The sooner you and your child discover his or her best smarts, the sooner you can nurture their potential and help them to flourish and use their gifts for God and others.
“Revised and updated version of “How Am I Smart'”
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5 Reasons For Spiritual Apathy In Teens
$13.39Add to cartWhen teens are struggling, disconnected, and apathetic, they need parental engagement more than ever. Parents must fight the temptation to passively accept the behavior as normal and ignore the situation. Instead it is time to press in to the heart of your teen, and push past the emotional struggle that often occurs in this phase of growing up. The Rienow’s understand what families are facing and share practical steps parents can take to cultivate faith and character during the challenging teen years.
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Interactive Family Worship
$20.99Add to cartHas it been awhile since you actually surprised your kids at family worship time?
Do you laugh together?
Do you sense God’s joyful presence?
Get ready to wake up your old traditions. If you want to spend less time planning and more time worshiping you’ll love this book of family-tested fun.
Have a rope and some clothespins? That’s all you need to get moving with a brand-new style of Bible baseball.
Need more ideas? Stretch your brain with a three-second Bible quiz. Turn backyard nature items into a creative Scripture night memory game.
Throw out fresh conversation starters that lead you closer to your family and your God.
Some of these worship ideas take just a few minutes. Others could involve bathrobes, dish towel turbans, and a half hour of hilarious role-playing. You’ll find activities perfect for Friday family reunions or Sabbath schools. Interactive Family Worship Ideas for Kids will turn worship into everyone’s favorite part of the day.
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Power Of A Praying Parent
$21.99Add to cartStormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.
After 20 years of raising her son and daughter alongside her husband, Michael, Stormie looks back at the trials and joys of parenting and the power in praying for her children. In these easy-to-read chapters, Stormie shares from personal experience as to how parents can pray for their kids’
*safety
*character development
*adolescence
*peer pressure
*school experiences
*friends
*relationship with GodThis resource will help you to be an amazing praying parent whether your kids are three or thirty-three.
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Its Your Kid Not A Gerbil
$16.49Add to cartDo you sometimes feel like a gerbil running on a wheel inside a cage as you scurry from place to place, chauffeuring your children from one endless activity to another? What if, for one moment, you could just step off of the wheel . . . and relax? How would you feel then? And what if that single moment could stretch into an hour, or even a whole day? It’s Your Kid, Not a Gerbil will provide practical solutions and helpful insight to get off the activity wheel so that you can put your time and energies where they really count: in establishing strong character and a love for home and family that will serve your kids well for a lifetime.
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Counsels To Parents Teachers And Students
$36.29Add to cartIn Co-operation With Christ
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students presents instruction specific to Seventh-day Adventists. It is different in this regard from the masterpiece, Education, in which Ellen white addresses issues intended for a broader, more general reading public. As the subject develops, there are clearly set forth the responsibilities and duties of parents, heartening counsel to guide the teachers in their work, and practical instruction to those who devote the years of their youth in preparing for a life of service. -
5 Love Languages Of Teenagers
$21.49Add to cartSocially, mentally, and spiritually teenagers face a variety of pressures and stresses each day. Despite these peer pressures; it is still parents who can influence teens the most. Are you equipped to love your teenager effectively? Dr. Gary Chapman is here to help, with a special edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling book The Five Love Languages. Get equipped to be a better parent as The Five Love Languages of Teenagers explores the world in which teenagers live; explains the developmental changes; and give tools to help you identify and appropriately communicate in your teens love language. Get practical tips on loving your teen effectively and explore key issues in your teen’s life including anger and independence. Finally learn how to set boundaries that are enforced with discipline and consequences, and discover useful ways for the difficult task of loving when your teen fails. With more than 250,000 copies sold, learn the secrets to loving your teenager effectively through real life stories from the counseling office of Dr. Gary Chapman. Get ready to discover how the principles of the five love languages can really work in the lives of your teens and family. Do you know your teenagers love language?
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Parenting Boot Camp
$21.59Add to cartMost parents learn by trial and error-and you can learn a lot that way-but every new recruit needs basic training strategies to be successful at the job of parenting. The objective of Parenting Boot Camp is to give parents the information they need to be an effective parent of their children. The goal is not to be a “perfect” parent but to have fun, be an effective teacher, and create positive relationships. This book will be useful for conducting seminars and small group studies, as well as a stand-alone guide for parents.
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Praying Like Crazy For Your Kids
$22.39Add to cartOur heavenly Father knows all about our family situations and wants us to partner with Him in shaping the lives of our children, not just for a long, meaningful life on earth, but also for eternity in the new earth. This beautiful book on praying for your children contains much encouragement, many prayer ideas, and journal pages to record your hopes and prayers for your children of any age. Tamyra Horst knows that true prayer is not idle repetition. Join in on her prayer journey as she addresses prayer ideas for the various stages of life encountered by children, prayer posture, fasting and prayer and waiting on God.
