Parenting
Showing 251–300 of 349 results
-
Lost In Translation Book Of Revelation 2
$22.99Add to cartLost in Translation The Book of Revelation Through Hebrew Eyes is a worthy follow-up to its predecessor, Rediscovering the Hebrew Roots of Our Faith. This is the second in a three-volume series that will cover the entire book of Revelation in awe-inspiring detail, expounding and expanding on familiar verses in Gods Word that have been misunderstood and misconstrued for many years. Or, in some cases, linking together verses and concepts that have been repeatedly overlooked. In this volume the authors explore the first half of Revelation from the perspective they established so clearly in Volume 1 that of a Hebrew God speaking through a Hebrew believer to an audience that was intimately familiar with the Hebrew language, culture, customs, and concepts that form both the literal and the metaphorical foundation for vast portions of Revelation. *Who are the 144,000, anyway? What will be their true function in the End Times? *Who is the Bride of Messiah? Does that designation automatically include everyone who accepts salvation, no matter when or where? *What does the book of Revelation really tell us about two vastly different and completely separate sequences of events that transpire at one and the same time, in entirely different places yet all as integral parts of the same vast panorama of end-times happenings? How do the Wedding and the Judgments fit together if they even DO? These are just some of the questions to which youll find plausible, sensible, biblically sound answers in this volume. Please join us, right now, for another voyage of discovery unlike anything youve embarked on before, even if you’ve already read volume 1
-
Parenting The Hurt Child (Revised)
$17.99Add to cartThe authors explain how to manage a hurting child with loving wisdom, resolve and success, and how to preserve stability while untangling a child’s thorny heart. “Parenting the Hurt Child” illustrates principles with true stories about hurting children and their adoptive families.
-
When Kids Hurt (Reprinted)
$20.00Add to cartChap Clark’s groundbreaking Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers revealed the hard truth about contemporary adolescence: societal changes and systemic abandonment have left teenagers struggling to navigate the ever lengthening and ever more difficult transition to adulthood without caring adults.
When Kids Hurt offers these challenging insights to youth workers and parents in a more accessible form, with greater focus on how adults should respond. Practical sidebars and application sections, contributed by other youth experts, provide additional insights into youth culture and how adults can better guide adolescents into adulthood. This book will be an important resource for youth workers, parents, counselors, and others who work with youth.
-
Not So Fast
$14.99Add to cartFrenzied families find themselves fragmented in this high-speed, fast-paced, goal-oriented society. Even while racing to second jobs, appointments, lessons, practices, games and clubs, we crave an antidote. How do we counteract the effects of our over-committed culture? Replenish our depleted selves? Restore our rushed relationships?
Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions for Frenzied Families explores the jarring effects of our high-speed, high-pressured, highly-scheduled lives and offers refreshing alternatives. Author Ann Kroeker relates her own story of how embracing a slower everyday pace has resulted in a richer, fuller, and more meaningful life.
Practical ideas and insight will spark creativity and personal reflection. Plus, ponder real-life stories from parents who put the brakes on the high-speed lifestyle and reaped the rewards of richer relationships. Not So Fast offers hope that families struggling with hurried hearts and frantic souls can discover the rejuvenating power of an unrushed life.
-
On Becoming Pre-Toddlerwise
$13.95Add to cartYou help your son blow out his first birthday candle and Great Aunt Lilly proclaims, “He’s a toddler now!” Not so fast! The period between 12 and 18 months places a child on a one-way bridge to the future. Infancy is a thing of the past, and toddlerhood is straight ahead. A baby still? Not really, but neither is he a toddler; and that is the key to understanding this phase of growth. Take a couple of photos, because the child leaving infancy will not resemble the child entering toddlerhood six months down the road. This is a period of metamorphosis when his potential for learning seems limitless, his budding curiosity unquenchable and his energy level steadily growing.
This is also a period of great exchange: baby food is exchanged for table food; the highchair for booster seat; finger feeding replaced with spoon; babbling sounds will transition to speaking; the first unsteady steps are conquered by strides of confidence, and the list goes on. -
What He Must Be
$17.99Add to cartAll parents want their daughters to marry godly young men. But which qualities, specifically, should they be looking for? What will you say when that certain young man sits down in your living room, sweaty-palmed and tongue-tied, and asks your permission to marry your daughter? What criteria should he meet before the two of them join together for life? What He Must Be…; If He Wants to Marry My Daughter outlines ten qualities parents should look for in a son-in-law, including trustworthiness, a willingness to lead his family, an understanding of his wife’s role, and various spiritual leadership qualities. Author Voddie Baucham follows up on his popular book Family Driven Faith with this compelling apologetic of biblical manhood. By studying the principles outlined in his book, parents who want their daughter to marry a godly man-as well as those who want their sons to become godly men-will be well equipped to help their children look for and develop these God-honoring qualities.
-
Get Outta My Face
$15.99Add to cartAs a seasoned parent and student counselor, Dr. Rick Horne understands the world in which teenagers live and the communication difficulty of talking to a disinterested and unmotivated teen. In Get Outta My Face, he combines biblical wisdom from the book of Proverbs with practical and specific directives that will make a difference in the life of you and your teen. Divided into three major sections, Part 1 addresses what you must understand to connect with your teen. Part 2 tells you what you must do help your teen and Part 3 tells you how to make the changes stick.
-
Raising Kids To Extraordinary Faith
$14.99Add to cart1. Where Disciple-Making Begins
2. Hearing Jesus Call
3. Affirming Faith
4. Following To Obey
5. Making Prayer A Life Skill
6. Learning To Read And Study The Bible
7. Discovering The Joy Of Giving God All
8. Helping Children Take Their Places In The Faith Community
9. Never Stop DisciplingAdditional Info
We want our children to know and love Jesus and learn what it means to be His disciple. We want their lives to be defined by service to others, love for their enemies, and a deep, trusting faith in God. But even though the home is the first and best place to begin a faith journey, it takes more than home to grow a disciple. Helping kids become lifelong followers of Christ requires the investment of parents, extended family, and Christian ministry workers who partner together in raising them as disciples.Raising Kids to Extraordinary Faith is a valuable resource that gives parents and teachers a practical guide for developing Christian virtue in children. Filled with spiritual growth ideas and suggestions for developing a faith-enriched home and church environment, it provides everyone who influences children purposeful advice, spiritual insight, and essential awareness to help them make discipleship the key component of their parenting, teaching, or mentoring.
From prayer and Bible study to spiritual gifts and global awareness, Raising Kids to Extraordinary Faith shows parents and ministry workers how to partner together to help children love Jesus and learn to grow His fruit in their lives.
Features include:
Thought-provoking questions to help parents and ministry workers clarify how they can impact the spiritual lives of the children around them
Useful side bars, real-life examples, scriptural principles, and age-appropriate ideas for discipling children
A family accountability model to help the entire family add the practice of discipleship into their daily lives
A Bible study for children to help them apply God s truth to their daily lives
Downloadable resources including, a 13-week leader’s guide and student sheets for studying the book in a group setting
A bibliography of helpful resources for more spiritual growth -
Help I Dont Like My Child
$13.49Add to cartEver think that you were all alone in your struggles of life? This book is a true story about a woman and her daughter, written to help set the captive free and to help bring healing to all those who are struggling in relationships, struggling with being real, and struggling for their very soul.
-
Show Us The Father
$14.99Add to cart“Show us the Father and it will satisfy us,” is more than another scripture, it’s a prophetic key to your future. The cry for recognition can be heard in every facet of our society. Children always perform better when a parent is watching. The interest of a parent or even a spiritual parent lifts the confidence of a child. In this book we will raise the hearts of the displaced sons and daughters. Preparation must never be underemphasized. In the sports world, if an athlete is placed in a competitive environment that is below him, it can hurt his future. In the developing years it’s important to have ‘A’ level people around you before the bad habits set in. World class Christians are developed in the right atmosphere. “Show Us the Father” will reveal the significance of a fathering environment for today’s leaders.
-
Cold Paws Warm Heart
$20.99Add to cartDo animals go to heaven? Are they too important in the lives of today’s Christians or not important enough? Ask four different pastors and you’re likely to get four different answers, (i.e. “Yes”, “No”, “I don’t know”, “We can’t be sure.”) With Christian parents in mind, Cold Paws, Warm Heart tackles these questions from a Biblical standpoint. Twenty-nine books of the KJV Bible and over two-hundred and fifty verses later, Cold Paws, Warm Heart gives simple direct answers to the questions, “How does God feel about animals?” “How are we supposed to treat them?” and “Do animals go to heaven?” The answers given are illustrated with stories from the Bible, fascinating interviews and stories from several knowledgeable persons, and the author’s own personal experiences with animals. Cold Paws, Warm Heart makes it easy for Christian parents to answer their children’s questions about animals and heaven with confidence.
-
Raising Godly Children
$16.49Add to cartThe situational ethics of contemporary culture has unleashed an arsenal of moral inconsistencies aimed at diluting the validity and effectiveness of the Christian faith. It is extremely crucial that Christian parents treat with much urgency the importance of conveying their faith to their children. This book was written to assist Christian parents in the process of nurturing spiritually sensitive and emotionally stable children. Christian parents will learn: * How to effectively use the word of God in the nurturing process * How to help your children discover and pursue the purpose of God * How to create a caring environment within the home * How to protect your children from negative influences The practical advice in this book will help you to be an effective parent, affirming the words of Joshua: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)
-
Is Your Teen Stressed Or Depressed
$19.99Add to cartThe teen years are hard enough. But with today’s increased pressures to produce at school, stay in step with being cool, and manage a jam-packed schedule, it’s no wonder many teens are overwhelmed. The result is a generation experiencing greater stress and feeling more depressed than any other. This book will inspire and equip parents to help their hurting teens. The well-known and widely respected author team of Dr. Catherine Hart Weber and Dr. Arch Hart help parents discover and identify nervousness, irritability, negativity, and low self-esteem, and determine whether their teen’s symptoms are caused by physical problems, raging hormones, stress, or depression. Offering practical suggestions, spiritual solutions, and encouragement, this resource helps parents and teens face their own feelings of fear, anger, and hurt. Is Your Teen Stressed or Depressed? will help parents determine whether their child is simply acting like a hormone-raging teenager, or is actually suffereing from too much stress or even depression.
-
Whole Life Adoption Book (Revised)
$19.99Add to cartThe Whole Life Adoption Book has long been an indispensable guide for prospective parents of adopted children and blended families. Now, revised and updated, authors Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas C. Atwood share insights into every aspect of adoption. Recommended by the National Council for Adoption, this powerful book addresses the needs and concerns facing adoptive parents, offering encouragement for the journey ahead.
-
Hopeful Parenting : Encouragement For Raising Kids Who Love God
$14.99Add to cartParenting is far from easy. From first steps to first dates, parenthood is filled with unique challenges. Yet there is no greater joy than nurturing one of God’s most precious gifts.
Popular author David Jeremiah presents a heartwarming look at adventures in parenting. Drawing from his own rich journey through fatherhood, David shares wit and wisdom on raising children in an unpredictable world. And each delightful passage features timeless truths from God’s Word that offer encouragement for the road ahead.
So be refreshed. Be challenged. And be inspired to build a rich legacy of faith for your family.
-
If Your Baby Could Talk Would You Listen
$12.49Add to cartListen Up, Your baby is talking! Mommy!! Daddy!! I don’t know where this is coming from but I feel I have this one opportunity to talk to you before I am really supposed to talk. Please pay attention because once I go to sleep I will forget all of this. After you read this, the rest is up to you. Listen closely!! Love, Your baby
“I appreciate the book. In a day when marriages are falling apart and kids are being left to deal with the collateral damage, it’s good to know somebody cares. I love your perspective. Someone needs to speak for the children. I feel you did that quite well in your writing. I pray everyone will be blessed, and their families strengthened by the book.” Dr. James Payne, James Payne Ministries, Tennessee “If Your Baby Could Talk should be mandatory reading. It is a prescription for accountability and success – a unique checklist for all ages and stages of parenthood.” David Patillo- Christian singer, songwriter and musician. -Texas “A great encouragement for new parents and parents to be. This book is an enjoyable read, full of simple truths often forgotten in today’s world.” Pastor Jeff Schreve – First Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas “This book would make the perfect gift for young married couples. I wish I had read it 30 years ago. The simple advice presented in this book has the potential to change individual lives, as well as the world.” Kit Pharo, Pharo Cattle Company, Colorado “Greg Gilbert has written a book that will put a smile on your face and joy in your heart!” Willie Jolley, Award winning Speaker, Singer and best selling author of It Only Takes A Minute to Change your Life and A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback!
-
New Start For Single Moms Participants Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartUnfortunately, the divorce rate is on the rise-especially within the church! As a result, there are many single moms who daily face their own burdens of guilt and fear, all the while trying to care for their children and provide a stable home. These moms need special help, guidance, discipleship, and companionship.
There is help! This life-transforming program is a twelve-week journey for single moms-focusing on healing the past, help for the present, and hope for a confident future. New Start 4 Single Moms is a program that pairs a mentor and a single mom together to explore potential, meet daily challenges, build peaceful homes, and accomplish dreams. Diane Strack wants single moms to understand that they are not alone and that they can be successful in raising their children and overcoming past obstacles.
-
Taking Care Of The Me In Mommy
$19.99Add to cartMoms get so busy with the doing and the giving for their families that they never seem to have enough time to rest and receive. So many moms have bought into the world-view that they can have it all and then believe the self-talk that if I don’t do it, it won’t get done! Isn’t it ironic that so many mothers are running on empty? Lisa Whelchel delivers a book full of practical tips and advice for mothers on how to find lost time in their day to nourish body, soul, and spirit.
-
Losers Loners And Rebels
$26.00Add to cartThe early years of adolescence are a tumultuous time, full of challenges and opportunities that can shape one’s whole life. In recent years several books have analyzed this period of life for girls, but this is the first book that investigates that interior life of boys as they develop their sense of self and begin the spiritual journey that will carry them throughout their lives.
The authors contend that adolescent boys often experience themselves at various times as losers, loners and rebels. As self-defined losers, boys begin to realize self-awareness; as loners they begin to understand their own relatedness to the larger world; as rebels they gain as sense of self-sufficiency. Through these common experiences of life, boys gain self-awareness, self transcendence, and self-sufficiency, concepts that take root in the spirituality that will last their lifetime.
-
Parenting Is A Ministry
$17.99Add to cartDoing our best as a parent is not what God wants. He wants us to do His will. The fact is most Christian parents today did not have a godly example, leaving them ignorant and confused over God’s will in raising children. This book will help parents: create a strong spiritual foundation, work together (if married) as a team, meet their children’s emotional needs, disciple their children, instill character, and start over. Being a parent is one of the most important tasks God has given us to do here on earth for Him.
-
Raising Girls : All You Need To Know About
$18.99Add to cartRaising Girls journeys into the heart of girls to help parents understand their daughter’s different stages of development: what is normal, what is not, and how to relate effectively. Drawing on fifty-five years of combined counseling experience, the authors help parents call out the unique identity God has given their daughter.
-
Becoming Spiritual Warriors For Our Children
$12.49Add to cartGod wants to “Free Hurting Mothers and to Raise up Warriors”! There is nothing harder for a mom than to see her child in pain and not be able to do anything about it. Through dealing with her teenage son’s cocaine addiction, God brought Pam to a place and time of her own revelation and restoration. And then, God taught her how to fight for her son. This book is a “how to” book. It teaches vital principals from the Word of God that every mother needs to learn and do. It is a story of heartache, revelation and victory.
-
Raising A Modern Day Knight (Expanded)
$16.99Add to cartUsing as an example the process by which a boy moved through the medieval stages of knighthood, author Robert Lewis identifies parallel stages for today’s fathers to create ceremonies to commemorate significant milestones in a young man’s journey toward becoming a modern-day knight.
-
Parenting Workbook : From Surviving To Thriving (Workbook)
$18.99Add to cartMarriage, children, and family have been lifelong priorities for Charles Swindoll. Following a biblical exploration of God’s purpose and plans for families, readers are equipped in Parenting Workbook: Practical Advice on Keeping Your Family Together with all the tools necessary to grow strong, healthy families. Chuck then takes a focused look at those areas where parents and families often experience difficulties, and offers helpful and practical solutions to those difficulties. This book will strengthen the bond between parent and child, and will help keep this life-long connection strong even after the child has grown.
-
Raising Your Spirited Child
$16.99Add to cartNewly revised, featuring the most up-to-date research, effective strategies, and real-life stories
The spirited child-often called “difficult” or “strong-willed”-possesses traits we value in adults yet find challenging in children. Research shows that spirited kids are wired to be “more”-by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. In this revised edition of the award-winning classic, voted one of the top twenty books for parents, Kurcinka provides vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint. Raising Your Spirited Child will help you:
understand your child’s-and your own-temperamental traits
discover the power of positive-rather than negative-labels
cope with the tantrums and power struggles when they do occur
plan for success with a simple four-step program
develop strategies for handling mealtimes, sibling rivalry, bedtimes, holidays, and school, among other situations -
Nurturing Your Childs Soul
$18.99Add to cartMany of us worry about our kids getting pulled under by our culture’s negative currents. We try to shout over the roar of media blitzes, misguided values in the schools, and peer pressure. And we wonder how to raise faithful children. For parents who sometimes feel they haven’t done enough, Jones provides ideas for taking small steps toward communication and intimacy, showing you how to take advantage of teachable moments by fully “focusing on the present.”
-
Parenting : Loving Our Children With Gods Love (Student/Study Guide)
$12.00Add to cartParenting is hard work, full of tough choices and new situations. And many voices compete with ours for our children’s attention. In a rapidly changing world, how can we parent in a way that will cause our children to love Christ deeply and live for him? These studies by Richard Patterson Jr. address nine parenting challenges, pointing us directly to time-tested truth from Scripture that helps us raise our children with wisdom and joy.
-
Home By Choice
$19.99Add to cartIt’s one of the toughest choices a mother will ever make: to “work” or be a full-time mother? It is also a long-running debate between moms who feel they contribute more to society at work than at home and those who feel mothering is not just a full-time job but a calling. In this newly repackaged, expanded, and updated edition of Home by Choice, national authority Dr. Brenda Hunter brings research to the discussion table, arguing that no one can replace the care a mother provides. As kids grow up with parental presence, she says, they develop a sense of home that will serve them all their lives. Dr. Hunter speaks directly to moms, addressing their unique concerns-such as financial pressure, support from husbands, and personal fulfillment. She makes a well-reasoned case for the enduring effects of a mother’s love.
-
Death Goes To School
$16.49Add to cartThe author of Death Goes to School clearly explores both the where, when and how we lost our way in educating and rearing our children, with a detailed emphasis on the how to in fulfilling the responsibility of “train[ing] up a child” (Proverbs 22:6) and “bring'[ing] them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4) – principles from a Christian/biblical perspective, yet helpful for all. WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK: The author makes a compelling case that…any genuine lasting solution [in education] must include the involvement and oversight of parents in a traditional family setting…greatly needed principles. I commend this treatise to you…. -Earl Radmacher, Ph.D Chancellor Emeritus, Conservative Baptist Seminary If you are looking…for wisdom in rearing your children, please read Death Goes to School. -Jon R. Wallace, DBA President, Azusa Pacific University [Death Goes to School] has many insightful parts that I see being used by young families in effectively ministering to their children. -Bruce Clatterbuck, Th.D Director at Large, Next Generation Churches
-
Walking The Baby Beat
$19.95Add to cartA Smart Start Press Title
D. Gary Benfield, M.D., veteran neonatologist and newspaper columnist, answers hundreds of healthcare questions in this easy-to-read book, covering everything from planning a pregnancy to childbirth and teen health concerns. Revised and updated from The Baby Beat, Dr. Benfield’s weekly newspaper column, Walking the Baby Beat is easy-to-use. Topics are arranged chronologically, related questions are grouped together under each topic, and each question is listed in the table of contents. As an added bonus, Walking the Baby Beat also includes a My Heroes section, featuring articles like The Newborn APGAR Score: Just one of Dr. Virginia Apgar’s Many Achievements, The Hidden Talent of Dr. Spock, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Rescued at Birth, and many more. This valuable reference is designed for future parents, expecting parents, rookie parents, grandparents, and even veteran parents and their older children.
-
Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Expanded)
$24.99Add to cartDescription: Parents need to teach their teens how to make decisions responsibly–and do so without going crazy or damaging the relationship. This book empowers parents with the skills and tools necessary to set limits, teach important skills, and encourage decision-making in their teenagers. Indexed for easy reference.
-
Leading Your Child To Jesus
$17.99Add to cartWhat will you say when your child asks how Jesus can fit inside his heart?
Here’s help with responding in words your little one will understand. Leading Your Child to Jesus equips you with the simple, effective communication tools that will help you discuss salvation with your child. They’ve been proven through David Staal’s years with Willow Creek Community Church’s Promiseland children’s ministry and through his personal experiences as a parent.
Learn how to share you own salvation story, explain the gospel in kid-friendly language, and lead your child in a prayer of salvation. Based on examples from the book of Acts, Leading Your Child to Jesus provides you with key biblical concepts on effective communication and includes exercises to help you put those concepts into action.
The enormity of leading your child to Christ doesn’t have to leave you tongue-tied. You can help your little one make the most important decision of his or her life-the decision to follow Jesus.
-
Raising Children On Purpose
$16.99Add to cartParent by Accident or Parent on Purpose?
Your child has a God-given purpose that is too important to be left to chance. As parents, we have a sacred opportunity to help our children find their way-the way they were created to go. When a child has insight into God’s special plan for his life, he will be more passionate about following Jesus, better able to focus his energies on what is most important, and equipped to make wiser decisions.
Raising Children on Purpose will help you…
*Assess your child’s natural talents and gifts
*Recognize and encourage your child’s interests
*Determine the point at which gifting and interest overlap
*Discipline your child in positive ways that inspire confidence
*Promote emotional health and good decision making in your child
*Prepare your child for career choicesWes Fleming’s Raising Children on Purpose offers practical advice with a generous sprinkling of humor.
Your children can fulfill their God-given potential!
-
Surprise Child : Finding Hope In Unexpected Pregnancy
$16.00Add to cartUnplanned pregnancies happen to women in every season of life: the newly married, the never-married, the empty-nester, the teenager, the overworked mother, the career woman. Yet we rarely talk about how lonely and confusing this experience can be. Leslie Leyland Fields, who experienced two unplanned pregnancies in her forties, weaves her own story with the stories of other women who understand the isolation you face as expectations and plans are turned upside down to make room for a child. Together, these women walk with you month-by-month through the physical and emotional stages of pregnancy, voicing their own anxieties and struggles. Here you will find the companionship and hope you need to journey toward a new life.
-
Boundaries With Teens
$19.99Add to cartIn this exciting new book, Dr. Townsend gives important keys for establishing healthy boundaries-the bedrock of good relationships, maturity, safety, and growth for teens and the adults in their lives. The book offers help in raising your teens to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.
-
Father Me
$14.99Add to cartLooking for a father figure? Someone who will embrace and love you unconditionally? Someone who will listen to your stories and coach you through life’s journey? Can’t find him? Search no more. This book will help you to understand that you are not alone. Father Me surveys the actions of fathers and how it impacts their children, focusing on the relationship between children’s anger, or wrath, and their fathers’ actions. The Bible puts it best: “Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, lest they be discouraged.” Father Me is a comprehensive handbook for individuals, especially parents who are seeking help for their hurting and angry children through a six-step, biblically based counseling strategy. This approach promises to bring inner and complete healing to the broken.
-
Preparing For Adolescence (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cartWhat do you say to an adolescent who’s getting ready to enter those turbulent teenage years? Dr. James Dobson, one of America’s leading family psychologists, knows how to speak directly and sincerely to today’s adolescents about the topics that trouble them most. Topics include avoiding feelings of inferiority, handling peer pressure, drug abuse, puberty, sexual development, menstruation, masturbation, romantic love, overcoming discouragement, sound decision-making, and handling independence.
-
Welcoming Children : A Practical Theology Of Childhood
$34.99Add to cartWelcoming Children develops a theology of childhood both from a theological perspective and from practical experience in children and youth ministry. The author draws insights from classic and modern feminist theologians, pastoral theologians, and contemporary cultural criticism to offer strategies for educational and liturgical practices in congregations that welcome children and contribute to their flourishing. Mercer outlines a feminist practical theology of childhood exploring five basic theological claims: 1) children as gifts and parenting as a religious practice of stewardship; 2) welcoming those who care for children; 3) children as fully human; 4) children as part of God’s purposes; and 5) acknowledging and transforming the sufferings of children. Her compelling argument reframes ministries with children as processes through which the church can become the foundation for children forming identities that resist consumerist culture and instead walk in the ways of Jesus.
-
Black Pearls For Parents
$13.95Add to cartEric V. Copage’s Black Perls became an instant best-seller and was the winner of the Blackboard African-American Bestsellers award for best nonfiction book of 1994. Now he has created a book of inspirational thoughts, practical advice, and pearls of wisdom specifically for African-American parents. The 365 quotes that begin each day’s entry range from African proverbs to wisdom and insight from Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Willie Mays, Marva Collins, and Marian Wright Edelman, among hundreds of other diverse and accomplished people of African descent.
Each day’s entry covers a topic that affects parents (and their children)-including Role Models, Friends, Procrastination, Affection, Priorities, Independence, Stress, Faith and hundreds more. From the daily inspirations, author Eric V. Copage suggests meditations and specific actions that will provide guidance, comfort, and inspiration to African-American parents as they deal with the pressures and joys of raising children in today’s world.
-
Attitude Adjustment Needed Now (Workbook)
$15.99Add to cartHaving worked with hundreds of children experiencing problems with anger, Dr. David E. Miller has created a simple two-part workbook designed for these children and their parents. The workbook promotes several activities to help children learn ten coping skills for expressing anger appropriately and reducing impulsive outbursts or inappropriate expressions of anger. The coping skills are presented as “tricks” that can help a child learn to control his or her anger. By working through the children’s portion of the workbook, a child learns coping skills for better handling anger and begins to consider consequences for his or her decisions and behavior. The parent’s section of the workbook contains many suggestions and resource ideas for helping their children learn coping skills, resulting in better anger management. Since these concepts have application to the classroom as well as the home environment, the workbook can serve as a resource to parents, teachers, and other personnel working with children in educational settings.
-
To You And Your Children
$16.00Add to cartScripture promises that God’s people “shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them” (Is. 65:22-23), and that Christ “will turn…the hearts of the children to their fathers” (Mal. 4:6). Yet Christian parents today face a disturbing exodus of their children from the Church to the world. Why is this? What is the place of children within the faith? What do the promises mean? Recognizing that this subject is fraught with difficulty and grief, the twelve contributors to this volume seek to address the hard questions and lay a biblical foundation of hope for our children.
-
Mom PhD : 6 Steps To Mastering Leadership Skills For Mom
$15.99Add to cartEarn your PhD in 6 simple sessions and become a Positive Home Director. Most mothers don’t think of themselves as leaders. But in reality, moms are the most important leaders in the world.
The simple six-step course taught in the pages of this book will equip you to be the Positive Home Director God intended. In it, you will learn about:
* Creating a vision
* Setting clear boundaries
* Instilling courtesy and manners
* Catching your children being good
* Destroying the “Supermom” myth
* Tapping into the power of prayer
* Inspiring faith
* Asking for help
* Being consistent
* Dealing with teens
* Demanding respectInstead of simply reacting to life’s circumstances, you can become a pro-active leader – a woman with a vision who defines her goals for her children’s future and knows how to make them a reality.
-
Everyday Talk : Talking Freely And Naturally About God With Your Children
$14.99Add to cartYour responses to life’s circumstances reveal what your heart believes about God. These responses speak louder to your children than family devotions or Sunday school. John Younts provides a primer for reclaiming this “everyday talk” to teach your kids about God in the context of everyday life.
-
Why Christian Kids Rebel
$18.99Add to cartAuthor of Grace-Based Parenting and the best-selling Little House on the Freeway, Dr. Tim Kimmel helps Christian parents avoid the potential problems their well-meaning parenting styles could create. This book offers a new way to look at the “ideal” Christian home and shows why “cocoon-style” Christian homes don’t work. Many parents have “done it all” when it comes to the checklist of good Christian parenting, only to see their son or daughter step away from their belief system and embrace other lifestyle choices. Dr. Kimmel helps to increase the chances that your children will develop a vibrant faith early in life and stick with it on into adulthood. It will also provide help and hope for those already dealing with a rebellious teen and teach them how to lead the child back into a walk of faith.
-
Nurturing The Leader Within Your Child
$18.99Add to cartHow do I bring out the best in my child? What can I do to help my children reach their full potential? Why is it important to encourage leadership in my child? John Maxwell protigi, Dr. Tim Elmore, answers these questions and others in Nurturing the Leader Within Your Child. Using a survey of over 3,000 students, he enters the minds of today’s youth to understand their desire to affect their world, their way.
Beginning with a foreword by John C. Maxwell, the book is in four unique sections (What You Need to Know, What They Need to Know, When to Seize the Moment, How to Pass it On). Dr. Elmore gives practical tools for bridging the generation gap to foster character and growth in your children. Offering a list of fundamental qualities every leader must possess, Dr. Elmore helps parents and youth workers recognize teachable moments and equips them to structure an individual mentoring plan for each child. Finally, he offers evaluation methods for recognizing progress.
-
Anger Workbook For Christian Parents (Workbook)
$17.00Add to cartIn this practical book, anger experts Drs. Les Carter and Frank Minirth-coauthors of the bestselling The Anger Workbook-show families how the “blame game” (parents blame the kids and kids blame the parents) doesn’t work. Instead they provide insight for dealing with the root causes of anger. In a perfect blend of biblical wisdom and psychological research, they show readers how to understand what can be right about anger, distinguish between healthy and unhealthy anger, recognize how anger can be managed more successfully by controlling desires and insecurities and addressing other underlying issues, and much more. Filled with real-life examples, checklists, evaluation tools, and study questions, this valuable resource for any parent with a preteen or teenager will help parents understand and manage their children’s anger-as well as their own-and show how to create harmony at home.
