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Feeding The Mouth That Bites You (Expanded)
$18.99Add to cartParenting Teenagers Is Hard. How Do You Know If You’re Doing It Right?
Many parents struggle in raising their teens because they fail to transition from seeing them as children to seeing them as adults-in-training. Progressively giving teens more control over their lives reduces stress and prepares your teen for maturity as an adult.
In Feeding the Mouth that Bites You, Dr. Ken Wilgus outlines a clear path to help parent teens in today’s world. Engaging, accessible, and based on Dr. Wilgus’ thirty-five years of clinical family work, teaching on parenting–and successfully raising three teens of his own–you’ll find this guide immensely practical. Learn what your teen needs and why they act the way they do so that you can reduce your frustrations and thoughtfully guide them.
You’ll also discover how to:*help them to grow in responsibility and prepare them to launch into the real world
*reduce conflict and maintain good communications
*set clear, reasonable limits without provoking fights
*manage tough issues like school, alcohol use, dating, etc., and more!Packed with stories, examples, and charts, Feeding the Mouth that Bites You is an indispensable resource that will give you confidence to raise kids who are ready for adult living.
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Healing For Every Heart In Adoption
$39.99Add to cartIn this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S. Kylstra, Lisa C. Qualls, and Jodi Jackson Tucker–an adoptee, birthmother, and adoptive mother–reveal that adoption is both rooted in loss and a redemptive victory. But healing is needed by all in the adoption triad–adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents–to experience this wholeness.
In these pages is the practical teaching, sound research, spiritual guidance, and strategic prayers you to need transform your adoption journey, including how to:
* address the profound spiritual challenges created by adoption
* identify the path to healing for each person in the triad
* overcome loss, grief, shame, hurts–and more
* experience restoration and healing through the love of Christ -
Healing For Every Heart In Adoption
$18.99Add to cartIn this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S. Kylstra, Lisa C. Qualls, and Jodi Jackson Tucker–an adoptee, birthmother, and adoptive mother–reveal that adoption is both rooted in loss and a redemptive victory. But healing is needed by all in the adoption triad–adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents–to experience this wholeness.
In these pages is the practical teaching, sound research, spiritual guidance, and strategic prayers you to need transform your adoption journey, including how to:
* address the profound spiritual challenges created by adoption
* identify the path to healing for each person in the triad
* overcome loss, grief, shame, hurts–and more
* experience restoration and healing through the love of Christ -
Raising Disciples : Guiding Your Kids Into A Faith Of Their Own
$18.99Add to cartEvery child-from infancy to adolescence-is being discipled by someone or something. The question is: Are you willing to disciple them for Jesus’ sake?
Accessible and actionable for parents of children birth to 13 years old, Raising Disciples offers a detailed discipleship map and directional markers to nurture your child’s spiritual growth with Christ.
During her more than 25 years in children’s ministry alongside her academic work training up children’s ministry leaders, Dr. Teresa Roberts noticed that parents and even children’s ministry leaders seemed to struggle with knowing how to disciple children past the more-intuitive preschool ages. A foundational family and ministry resource, Raising Disciples reflects the developmental needs that will empower children to grow in their knowledge of God’s Word, develop a vocabulary of faith, engage in spiritual practices, and cultivate a deep, personal relationship with God. Featuring intuitive, quick-reference visual aids, researched expertise, real-life examples from the ministry of Jesus, and relational warmth, Raising Disciples is a must-have resource to give you a discipleship pathway for raising spiritually grounded children in today’s complex world.
Includes additional tools:
*Discipleship map from birth to adolescence
*Discipleship reference by age level
*Resource list for continued discipleship and training in biblical interpretation
*Discussion questions for children’s ministry leaders and volunteersLearn how to equip your child with tools to navigate life’s challenges and make their Christian faith a personal and lasting commitment.
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Power Of A Praying Parent
$20.00Add to cartWhy Leave Your Child’s Life to Chance When You Can Give It to God?
Bestselling author Stormie Omartian has ignited the prayer lives of millions through her Power of a Praying (R) series. In this timeless guide written for parents, Stormie shares how you can pray through each stage of your child’s life, from early childhood to adulthood.
In 32 short, easy-to-read chapters, learn how to put your child’s life in God’s loving hands as you pray for every part his or her life. You don’t have to be a perfect parent. But you do need to be a praying parent. And you can do that.
The Harvest Legacy Collection
For more than 50 years Harvest House Publishers has provided high-quality books that affirm biblical values, helping countless readers grow spiritually strong. The Harvest Legacy Collection celebrates the lasting influence of select Harvest House titles with deluxe, special-edition releases. These enduring works have collectively impacted millions–and they are sure to inspire readers for years to come!
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Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself
$19.99Add to cartLoving your kids isn’t supposed to mean you completely disappear or get swallowed up by the demands of motherhood.
You want to be a great mother. But how do you care for yourself without neglecting your kids needs, feeling overwhelmed by guilt, or succumbing under the pressure to be perfect?
Dr. Morgan–a psychotherapist and relationship expert–has helped over 100,000 moms regain their sanity and prevent burnout through her popular courses, coaching, and social media wisdom. In her debut book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself, she offers a proven step-by-step plan that any mom can follow. In this powerful book, she reveals how to:
*rid yourself of mom-guilt for good,
*identify your needs and express them with confidence,
*create a self-care plan that goes beyond pedicures and bubble baths, and
*thrive as a woman after being on the back burner for too long.Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself is a must-read book for modern moms. You don’t have to choose between self-abandonment or child-abandonment. You can love yourself and love your kids. Discover how to flourish as a mother, know exactly how to care for yourself in ways that actually make a difference, and finally feel joy in motherhood.
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Mothers Children And The Body Politic
$26.00Add to cartHow we talk about human life matters.
In western post-Christian society, humans are thought of less like precious image bearers and more like commodities. The canary in the coal mine of this ideological shift is often women and children, which manifests itself in the seemingly built-in disdain towards motherhood and children for their lack of production of economically valuable goods.
However, the risk of this utilitarian approach to human life is not just outside the church, but within those spaces as well. Indeed, the commodification of human life within the contemporary body politic is so deeply embedded within the systems, even the church has lost touch with some of the ways it inherently devalues the lives of women and children.
Classics scholar Nadya Williams draws from voices both ancient and modern to illuminate how Christians can value human life amidst an empire that seeks to dehumanize that which is most precious. Bringing insights from the beliefs and practices of the early church in Greco-Roman context about motherhood, raising children, and human life, Williams suggests there is a way to recapture a vision that affirms the imago Dei in each person over and above our economic contribution to society.
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Family Discipleship That Works
$18.00Add to cartFamily discipleship is one of the most basic ways God has ordained to build his kingdom-and yet most parents struggle to do it consistently.
Amid our busyness, the multitude of different approaches, and our own self-doubts, the deck seems stacked against us. But Brian Dembowczyk isn’t here to pile on the guilt or to make us feel like failures. As a parent himself, he knows this struggle firsthand.
In Family Discipleship That Works, Dembowczyk says that the goal of discipling our kids isn’t just passing along head knowledge. It’s teaching them to act like Jesus. The Bible itself is not just a story but a drama in which we ourselves participate, and our kids have roles to play too. Dembowczyk offers practical advice and a wealth of ideas for teaching our kids to imitate the character traits of Jesus himself as we “act out” the Christian life together.
As parents, we are indeed called to disciple our children to know and act like Jesus. By God’s grace, that’s a task we can do-not out of guilt but with joy and good hope.
Family Discipleship That Works . . .
*Invites parents into more active family discipleship without judgmentalism, but with grace and understanding
*Presents “imitating Jesus” as a new model for understanding and enacting family discipleship
*Includes practical, achievable advice for parents to live out these principles in their homes
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Disciple Them Like Jesus
$17.99Add to cartIn the whirlwind of modern parenting, it’s easy to lose sight of what our priorities should be. Family ministry expert Barrett Johnson urges you to return to the primary task of nurturing authentic faith in your kids. Addressing the unsettling trend of young adults abandoning their faith soon after leaving home, Disciple Them like Jesus advocates for intentional discipleship within the family unit, offering a clear blueprint grounded in the model of Jesus and his twelve disciples.
By exploring pivotal questions such as “What did Jesus do to empower ordinary individuals to transform the world?” and “How can I replicate Jesus’s approach within my household to foster a lasting and genuine faith in my children?” this book lays out a five-component model stemmed from Jesus’s disciple-making priorities. Guiding you through a practical, step-by-step approach, Johnson invites you to embrace Jesus’s proven principles and foster an environment that challenges a vibrant, enduring faith in the next generation.
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Grounded In Grace
$16.99Add to cartChildren and teens face a tremendous amount of pressure from their peers and culture to find their identity in their activities, feelings, or performance. This modern way of looking at identity can be challenging to navigate for parents who grew up with a traditional view of identity rooted in predetermined roles. What if they could help their children and teenagers find their identity in something that never went away and never changed based on their ability or performance–an identity grounded in God’s grace?
Jonathan Holmes explores the five core areas of identity struggles most common to teens: sports, academics, moralism, sexual orientation, and gender confusion. He provides parents with a biblical foundation to work from and practical tools to help their teen find their identity based on who God says they are.
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Flourishing Family : A Jesus-Centered Guide To Parenting With Peace And Pur
$18.99Add to cartWhen it comes to Christian parenting, we crave confidence, wisdom, and most of all peace.
We pray for peace when our little ones are tossed about by waves of emotions, for connection and confidence when navigating stressful mornings and exhausting nights, and for wisdom in knowing how best to discipline our kids. As Christian parents, we’re desperate to “get it right,” to raise our children to be strong, courageous followers of Jesus?and yet, despite the overload of endless advice at our fingertips, we often feel completely and utterly lost.
You can become the parent Christ has called you to be and change your home and family from the inside out. In The Flourishing Family, Dr. David and Amanda Erickson offer a new parenting perspective one that cultivates peace, gentleness, and confidence. Deeply rooted in Scripture and backed by modern neuroscience as well as insight into child development, their book will equip you to:
*rethink common assumptions about what the Bible says about parenting?and align your parenting approach with the teachings of Jesus and your identity in Him,
*cultivate the inner peace needed to lead and guide your family with Christ, and His grace, at the center,
*critically assess various gentle parenting principles through a Gospel lens so that you can respond to your child with understanding and patience, honoring the divine image and unique personality God created them to have, and
*use compassionate discipline as discipleship to focus on the heart behind your child’s actions, addressing the developmental or neurological roots of their behavior rather than merely correcting or punishing their actions or choices.
Your legacy is not defined by your parenting perfection but by your commitment to follow in the way of Jesus and to trust His Spirit to cultivate the seeds you’re diligently planting throughout your children’s lives. Trust that He will meet you in these pages?and that He will transform your hearts and home.
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Me I Was Made To Be
$35.99Add to cartYour kids are talking about identity. Are you part of the conversation?
Today’s kids and youth are talking about identity–and often very differently from the adults around them. How can we walk well with them through their questions about who they are and how they fit into the family of God? We must begin by telling a better gospel story, with an invitational posture that actually expects us to love God and love others.
In this engaging and disarming book that speaks to readers across the theological spectrum, author and children’s ministry expert Christie Penner Worden invites grownups along to imagine a more Jesus-centered narrative for the sake of kids who are no longer buying what the church is selling, who do not feel safe, and who have not been welcomed into the conversation that adults are having without them. The Me I Was Made to Be is the beginning of a conversation that offers a compelling story on identity rooted in a deeper understanding of the gospel–one that includes all image-bearers and extends Jesus’ welcome to all our kids.
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Me I Was Made To Be
$19.99Add to cartYour kids are talking about identity. Are you part of the conversation?
Today’s kids and youth are talking about identity–and often very differently from the adults around them. How can we walk well with them through their questions about who they are and how they fit into the family of God? We must begin by telling a better gospel story, with an invitational posture that actually expects us to love God and love others.
In this engaging and disarming book that speaks to readers across the theological spectrum, author and children’s ministry expert Christie Penner Worden invites grownups along to imagine a more Jesus-centered narrative for the sake of kids who are no longer buying what the church is selling, who do not feel safe, and who have not been welcomed into the conversation that adults are having without them. The Me I Was Made to Be is the beginning of a conversation that offers a compelling story on identity rooted in a deeper understanding of the gospel–one that includes all image-bearers and extends Jesus’ welcome to all our kids.
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What Do I Say When
$16.99Add to cartAnswers to Tough Cultural Questions Presented to Christian Parents
Navigating the world for the first time can be challenging, especially when popular cultural beliefs contradict the teachings of Scripture. So when inevitable questions arise, parents must be equipped with sound biblical answers to guide their children through the complexities of modern life-because if we fail to catechize our children, the world will surely step in to do it for us.
Written by husband and wife duo Andrew and Christian Walker, this accessible and trusted guide helps busy parents quickly and effectively respond to their children’s questions on a wide range of topics, including abortion, sexuality, transgenderism, technology, political engagement, and more. Each chapter contains age-appropriate prompts for parents of children at different stages of development and maturity. Parents can refer to each chapter as specific questions arise, study hot-button topics for future reference, or access a range of conversation starters to proactively cultivate biblical truth within their child’s heart.
*Written for Busy Parents: Empathetic in tone, this book helps parents quickly access answers to the most important topics confronting our youth today
*Helpful Resources: Each chapter features a biblical overview, basic truths every parent should know, conversation starters, memory verses, and recommended resources
*Current: Addresses important cultural topics, including human dignity, abortion, sexuality, transgenderism, technology, political engagement, and more
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Meet Me In The Middle
$19.99Add to cartYou can have an open and trusting relationship with your teenager. Mother-and-daughter team Sandra Stanley and Allie Stanley Cooney write in alternating chapters to you and your middle school/early high school daughter in this unique, interaction-prompting book that will help you grow in connection, communication, and faith.
Some conversations between parent and child don’t happen until a crisis forces them to occur. At that point, defenses go up, lines are drawn, feelings are hurt, and solutions seem out of reach. But what if those conversations happened before a crisis? This book helps make that happen. As leaders at one of the country’s largest churches, Sandra Stanley and Allie Stanley Cooney not only have professional backgrounds working with young people, they have walked this path together. In Meet Me in the Middle, they draw on their experience to help you:
*Use eight planned opportunities to have comfortable discussions with your daughter about the topics you care about most
*Learn natural ways to communicate your faith
*Hear firsthand what your daughter is most stressed about
*Help your daughter navigate fear and anxiety
*Approach the tricky subjects of friends, boys, and dating
Discussion questions, Scripture, activity ideas, and outing suggestions in Meet Me in the Middle help pave the way to a strong, trusting relationship. As you and your daughter step toward one another, you’ll explore how you both can:
*Grow in faith as you find your identity and self-worth in Christ
*Avoid the comparison trap
*Nurture healthy relationships
*Keep communication openMeet Me in the Middle guides you to a loving, trusting relationship with your tween or teen daughter as you grow closer, seek out God together, and enjoy each other along the way.
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Youll Make It And They Will Too
$17.00Add to cartA lifeline of hope for parents of teens who feel adrift on the real and raw parenting journey, presented with wisdom and faith–and a touch of candid humor–from seasoned educator, mother, and Today Parenting contributor Amy Betters-Midtvedt.
As a mom with five kids ages twelve to twenty-two living at home, Amy Betters-Midtvedt found that parenting teens challenged everything she thought it meant to be a “good” mom. But in the unraveling came the building of something new and more beautiful than she could have imagined: an incredible sense of love, hope, joy, and relationship–even in the mess.
You’ll Make It (and They Will Too) is as much about navigating the minefields of anxiety and mental health as it is setting curfews, convincing kids to bring their dishes back to the kitchen, and deciding whose turn it is to have the car keys. It’s about dancing in the kitchen with soon-to-be adult kids who are taller than you. It’s making appointments with a therapist and a college admissions counselor in the same week. It’s helping your kids cling to faith even as they reject the pew on Sunday mornings.
Through stories steeped in hope and prayer of both her professional and personal parenting journey, Amy shares:
– words of comfort for when you feel alone, together with wisdom and strategies that will help you to not just survive the sleepless nights, but also to thrive as a stronger family unit
– prayers to draw on God’s strength when everything feels overwhelming
– a path forward with your teenagers that brings you into a lifelong loving relationship
– ways to celebrate the beauty in your teens in all that they are, just as God made them
Each chapter will leave you equipped, encouraged, and less alone by guiding you through how to listen to your own heart when parenting your precious teen.
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Parenting : 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family With
$22.99Add to cartPaul David Tripp’s Bestselling Book on Parenting, Now with Study Questions
Sometimes parents wish there was a guaranteed formula for raising good kids-a certain list of rules to follow to ensure they’d have obedient children. But if moms and dads view their role through the lens of God’s grace, they will see that the gospel must first shape how they parent before they can effectively shape their children.
In the bestselling book Parenting, Paul David Tripp unfolds a more biblical perspective on parenting than merely adhering to a list of rules. He lays out 14 gospel-centered principles that will radically change the way parents think about what it means to raise up a child, informing everything they do as a parent. This edition includes a section of engaging study questions for every chapter, helping individuals and groups reflect on each topic in greater depth.
Downloadable study questions are available for free.
*Christ-Centered Advice for Families: Explains how the gospel should affect the way parents interact with their children at every age
*Engaging Study Questions: Reflect on each chapter alone or as part of a small group
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Raising Prophetic Kids
$29.99Add to cartUsher Your Children into Their Highest Calling
Has your daughter come to you about a dream she’s had or a feeling of a future happening? Does your son see angels or blurt out messages that could only come from God?
Having raised four spiritually gifted sons activated into prophetic ministry, prophetic mentor and teacher Debra Giles helps you identify and develop your children’s unique spiritual giftings. Packed with biblically based teaching, prophetic activations, practical exercises, and real-world tools, this hands-on guide empowers you to confidently:
* recognize attributes and signs of prophetic gifting
* discern your children’s unique purpose and destiny
* guide them as they learn to operate in their gifts
* cultivate a spiritually fertile home environment
* prepare them for personal ministry and to release God’s truth
* step back when their gifts have maturedGod is calling forth a new generation of Samuels and Deborahs–here’s everything you need to train them in the way they should go.
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Never Alone : The Power Of Family To Inspire Hope
$18.99Add to cartFamily Is Divinely Inspired
Family is God’s design for us. But imagine a world without family. What would it be like? You would never attend a family reunion. You would have no one to invite to your wedding. You would have no spouse to commit your life to. No children or grandchildren. You would not gather with family for special holiday celebrations. You might feel alone. Isolated. As if you didn’t belong. But that isn’t what God had in mind, so He established the family.
In Never Alone, Dr. Albert Reyes explores scripture to help us find God’s plan and design for the family. Using the Bible as his guide and stories of real families with his ministry at Buckner International, Dr. Reyes guides you on a journey of discovery. Discover that family is a gift from God with the power to inspire hope. Find God’s plan for your family.
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Parenting With Hope
$18.40Add to cartRaise Your Teens on a Rock-Solid Foundation
As children mature, it’s important for parents to prepare for the unique changes and challenges of adolescence. With so many cultural pressures and influences vying for teens’ attention, parents need a secure foundation for creating an environment where faith can flourish.
Parenting with Hope invites you to anchor your hopes and expectations in Christ–the true source of wisdom, strength, contentment, and fruitful parenting. Integrating sound biblical teaching, insights from developmental experts, and her own experiences as a teacher and mother, Melissa Kruger will wisely guide you through today’s most common concerns. Emphasizing principles over prescriptions, Melissa will help you to understand how you can build up and bless your teens in God-honoring ways.
When you recognize God as the ultimate parent, you’ll begin to truly understand that he is presently at work in the hearts of both parents and teens. This encouraging and practical guide will equip you with the wisdom to cultivate a Christ-centered household, passing on a legacy of faithfulness to your teenage children.
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War On Children
$26.99Add to cartIn The War on Children, bestselling author, John MacArthur, offers the tools needed to understand the enemy’s battle plan and be ready for the next assault. As God’s people, we need to:
*Teach our children God’s Word
*Train them in righteousness
*Give them wise and biblically based guidance
*And above all, give them our extravagant loveEvery day, on a multitude of battlefronts, Satan is deploying weapons of mass corruption against our children. Modern culture has been systematically designed with an agenda that is aggressively anti-God, anti-Christ, and anti-Scripture, intended to corrupt and consume young, impressionable hearts and minds.
We are in the middle of a dangerous ideological conflict with eternity at stake. Christian parents cannot simply float passively along with the drift of our culture. We need to:
*Be aware of the threats this world poses to our children
*Understand the enemy’s battle plan and be ready for the next assault
*Prepare our children for the attacks they will face from a culture intent on their destruction. -
Parenting Map : Step-By-Step Solutions To Consciously Create The Ultimate P
$18.99Add to cartInstant National and International Bestseller
A revolutionary new parenting method by the New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family.
Every parent is capable of raising happy, healthy, and emotionally grounded children. Despite this, too many of us struggle along the journey. From the fast-changing realities of social media to the fear that permeates our culture, to the generational expectations that are unconsciously placed on children, the pressures on parents and children have reached a critical moment. We feel it and our children feel it. But there is a solution.
With over two decades experience working directly with parents, acclaimed clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Shefali offers a profoundly practical and groundbreaking parenting solution that helps parents actualize their deepest desires for their children. This step-by-step guide disrupts toxic inherited patterns and replaces them with authentic connections that allow us to see and respond to our children for who they are and who they can become.
This is the evidence-based manual that every parent has been searching for. Complete with paradigm shifting wisdom, illuminating client stories, and detailed practices, The Parenting Map guides the way to empowering our children while transforming ourselves.
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Raising Mentally Strong Kids
$27.99Add to cartParenting is about to get easier–and a whole lot more effective….
In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like they’re falling short.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen and child psychologist Dr. Charles Fay have teamed up to reveal what’s missing from most parenting books. It’s the fact that you need to address both the brain and the mind of your child (and yourself) in order to effectively raise good and strong humans.
In this groundbreaking book where neuroscience meets love and logic, parents are given practical tools to help children of all ages go from behavioral problems like defiance, meltdowns, and power struggles to being:
*Responsible, confident, kind, and resilient
*Better prepared to make good decisions
*More focused and motivated
*Better able to have healthy relationships, and more….Let Dr. Amen and Dr. Fay help you learn how to be the parent you’ve always dreamed you could be-and raise great kids who are on their way to reaching their full potential, including their best possible mental health.
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Reclaiming Education : Teach Your Child To Be A Confident Learner
$15.99Add to cartAre you satisfied that your children’s current educational environment is bringing out their best potential?
In a world where traditional education systems make little or no accommodation for individual learning styles (such as auditory or visual learning), and they’re failing to teach even the basics, it’s time for parents to take charge of their children’s education.
In Reclaiming Education, parents are equipped with practical and immediately useful tools to work in partnership with their children to identify and develop their learning styles and strengths. If you want to help learners build the kind of confidence that inspires lifelong learning, get them involved in the solutions for their own success.
In this book, both parents and children can learn how to:
*Identify learning style strengths
*Develop strategies for adapting to less than ideal circumstances
*Design an effective study space environment that’s tailored to your child’s needs
*Motivate even the most resistant learnersA great faith-based parenting resource for anyone who feels like the traditional education system has failed their children, and for anyone interested in homeschooling or simply helping their children to succeed in any type of school setting.
Say goodbye to a one-size-fits-all education and unlock your child’s full learning potential.
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Parenting : The Complex And Beautiful Vocation Of Raising Children
$21.99Add to cartBooks on parenting abound, with many suggesting that specific strategies will produce desired results. Gifted theologian Holly Taylor Coolman offers something different: a theologically and biblically rich commentary on the theme of raising children.
As a mother of five who is known for approaching parenting in a theological way, Coolman is often asked for advice. In this book, she explores parenting as a complex and beautiful vocation in which mothers and fathers themselves are made and unmade, offered troubling sorts of gifts, and drawn deeper into connection not only with their children but also with God, others, and themselves. Coolman describes child-rearing as a vocation to which parents are called that requires them to develop the skills of apprenticeship and invitation. She also locates raising children firmly within the context of the church.
This book will appeal to Christian parents, especially adoptive and foster parents, as well as pastors, church leaders, and students.
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Praying For Your Child From Head To Toe
$19.99Add to cartGod has given parents the privilege of shaping not just a human being but an eternal soul. Sometimes that responsibility can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to prayer.
In Praying for Your Child from Head to Toe, bestselling author Sharon Jaynes helps us use the words of Scripture to pray over our children with intention. This practical and encouraging guide offers:
*A unique head-to-toe pattern to help us make prayer for our kids a natural habit
*Thirty brief reflections with sixteen prayers each, taking you from prayers for your child’s mind, eyes, and ears, to their shoulders, gifts, and relationships
*Flexibility, whether you are looking for a month-long devotional or Scripture prayers to use again and again
As Sharon reminds us, prayer is not a means of gaining control over our children to make them the men and women we want them to be. Prayer is a means of relinquishing control and asking God to shape our children into the men and women that He wants them to be.
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Talking To Kids About Gender Identity
$29.99Add to cartThe Wisdom You Need on One of the Hardest Issues of Our Day
As gender identity, transgender experiences, and emerging gender identities continue to be normalized and celebrated, many parents are left struggling with what to think about these issues–let alone how to talk to their children about them. The leading Christian expert on LGBTQ+ concerns, Dr. Mark Yarhouse has spent years counseling and teaching on these issues.
In this biblical, practical guide, he offers parents wisdom and answers to their biggest questions about gender, equipping you to:
* critically engage gender theory from a Christian view
* initiate honest, informative dialogues with your kids
* model biblical conviction with civility and compassion
* recognize early signs of gender dysphoria
* navigate relationships with those who identify differentlyGender identity is a defining issue in our children’s generation. This practical guide is your go-to resource for reliable, kingdom responses on these critical topics.
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Unshakable Kids : Three Keys To Raising Spiritually Strong And Emotionally
$17.99Add to cartYou may feel anxious about sending your child out into a world that too often feels dark and scary. But you can prepare your kids to live in the real world by equipping them with a sound mind and strategies for establishing a foundation of faith.
Adversity is a normal part of life, and when we keep our children too protected, we rob them of the opportunity to learn and practice essential life skills like discernment, understanding, boldness, and resilience. Using Scripture and principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, Unshakable Kids gives you the tools to equip your children to withstand the negative pressures of society and walk bravely into the world with wisdom. This book will show you how to model the qualities you want to build in your kids, control anxious thoughts, and help your kids rest in their identities as children of God.
With God’s Word and these brain-based tools, you can raise emotionally healthy and spiritually strong children who not only remain unshaken by the world, but can actually make a positive impact on it.
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Talking To Kids About Gender Identity
$16.99Add to cartThe Wisdom You Need on One of the Hardest Issues of Our Day
As gender identity, transgender experiences, and emerging gender identities continue to be normalized and celebrated, many parents are left struggling with what to think about these issues–let alone how to talk to their children about them. The leading Christian expert on LGBTQ+ concerns, Dr. Mark Yarhouse has spent years counseling and teaching on these issues.
In this biblical, practical guide, he offers parents wisdom and answers to their biggest questions about gender, equipping you to:
* critically engage gender theory from a Christian view
* initiate honest, informative dialogues with your kids
* model biblical conviction with civility and compassion
* recognize early signs of gender dysphoria
* navigate relationships with those who identify differentlyGender identity is a defining issue in our children’s generation. This practical guide is your go-to resource for reliable, kingdom responses on these critical topics.
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Unshakable Kids : Three Keys To Raising Spiritually Strong And Emotionally
$29.99Add to cartYou may feel anxious about sending your child out into a world that too often feels dark and scary. But you can prepare your kids to live in the real world by equipping them with a sound mind and strategies for establishing a foundation of faith.
Adversity is a normal part of life, and when we keep our children too protected, we rob them of the opportunity to learn and practice essential life skills like discernment, understanding, boldness, and resilience. Using Scripture and principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, Unshakable Kids gives you the tools to equip your children to withstand the negative pressures of society and walk bravely into the world with wisdom. This book will show you how to model the qualities you want to build in your kids, control anxious thoughts, and help your kids rest in their identities as children of God.
With God’s Word and these brain-based tools, you can raise emotionally healthy and spiritually strong children who not only remain unshaken by the world, but can actually make a positive impact on it.
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Worry Free Parent
$29.99Add to cartWorry is contagious…
but you can stop its spreadAnxiety has an amazing ability to spread. Time and time again, when veteran counselor and parenting expert Sissy Goff has an anxious child or teen in her office, she’s found they have at least one very well-intentioned but anxious parent. Anxiety is contagious, and it’s likely affecting your kids, distracting you in the present, and making you feel like it will define your family’s future.
It doesn’t have to be this way. With over 30 years of experience helping both children and adults, Sissy offers you practical, well-researched tools that will make a difference in your life–and the lives of your children. Learn how to:
* uncover the roots of your own anxiety
* process anxiety in healthy ways rather than passing it on
* model bravery
* discover a place of deeper, freer connection to your kidsHere is the help you need to experience freedom from anxiety, raise confident, courageous kids, and become a worry-free family in an increasingly anxious world.
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Worry Free Parent
$17.99Add to cartWorry is contagious…
but you can stop its spreadAnxiety has an amazing ability to spread. Time and time again, when veteran counselor and parenting expert Sissy Goff has an anxious child or teen in her office, she’s found they have at least one very well-intentioned but anxious parent. Anxiety is contagious, and it’s likely affecting your kids, distracting you in the present, and making you feel like it will define your family’s future.
It doesn’t have to be this way. With over 30 years of experience helping both children and adults, Sissy offers you practical, well-researched tools that will make a difference in your life–and the lives of your children. Learn how to:
* uncover the roots of your own anxiety
* process anxiety in healthy ways rather than passing it on
* model bravery
* discover a place of deeper, freer connection to your kidsHere is the help you need to experience freedom from anxiety, raise confident, courageous kids, and become a worry-free family in an increasingly anxious world.
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Worry Free Parent Workbook (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartThe Tools You Need to Stop the Spread of Worry
Anxiety has an amazing ability to spread. But there are practical things you can do to fight back. In this encouraging, well-designed companion workbook to The Worry-Free Parent, veteran counselor and parenting expert Sissy Goff helps you dig deeper into the roots of your anxiety and identify targeted ways to overcome it.
Through clinically tested questions and exercises, learn how to:
* uncover more of what keeps you stuck in worry
* reframe your concerns with worry-fighting truths and Scripture
* implement joy-filled practices to foster deeper connection in your family
* find practical ways to experience freedom in your daily lifeHere are the space and tools you need to grab hold of peace, embrace grace, and become the person, parent, and family you want to be.
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Raising Respectful Children In A Disrespectful World
$19.99Add to cartYou picked up this book because you want to raise respectful children in today’s disrespectful world. Even if in the moment it seems like an impossible task, you?can succeed. To do so, I’ll help you:
*?Be the person you want your children to become.
*Abandon old notions of building self-esteem to choose self-respect.
*Enroll your family in the School of Respect.
*Use encouragement to motivate your children, not praise.
*Set boundaries without building walls between you and your children.
*Do all you can to protect and shield your children from the garbage of our culture.
*Engage your children in meaningful activities, not useless entertainment.
*Find contentment so your children can be filled with gratefulness.
*Listen with your heart to your children’s needs.Not sure you can do it? I?know?you can because you’re not alone!
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She Deserves Better
$29.99Add to cartWhat if the goal of raising a Christian girl was about more than keeping her virginity intact? What if it was about raising a strong, independent young woman who knows who she is, uses her voice, and confidently steps into the life God has for her?
From the authors of The Great Sex Rescue comes this evidence-based book grounded on surveys of over 28,000 women to offer moms a fresh, freeing, and biblically grounded message of sexuality and self-worth for their daughters that is less about the don’ts and more about the dos.
This isn’t your average parenting book: no pat answers or overly broad principles here. No cliche prescriptives or toxic teachings that your daughter will have to unpack and recover from as an adult, like so many of us have. Instead, you’ll find data-driven insights about how to raise a woman who is resilient, knows her strength, and has the discernment skills needed to make good choices. By reframing (and sometimes replacing) common evangelical messages to teen girls, this book will equip you to raise a girl who can navigate the difficult waters of growing up while still clinging tight to the God who created her on purpose, for a purpose.
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Pray With Me
$17.99Add to cartThis grace-filled, practical book on praying with your kids empowers you to teach children how they can develop a personal relationship with God through prayer.
As parents, our deep longing is for our children to not just know about Jesus but to love Him. In Pray with Me, parent and ministry leader Erica Renaud shows us how inviting kids into the joy of intentional prayer-on their level-nurtures authentic relationship with God that can last a lifetime.
Through relatable stories, biblical insight, and practical tips for involving the whole family in prayer, Erica equips us to:
*Overcome the challenges of praying with kids by learning how to engage their hearts.
*Encourage prayer in response to everyday joys and struggles.
*Get creative about when, how, and what to pray.
*Express the theology of prayer in age-appropriate language, for preschoolers to tweens.
*Let go of the insecurity that keeps us from praying with our kids.As our children grow spiritually, we can too-and together, love Jesus more every day.
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Rooted In Wonder
$18.99Add to cartFor a generation whose eyes are constantly trained on screens, encountering nature at all is increasingly difficult, much less seeing what is reveals about God. How can parents help children reengage with God’s world that is full of amazement, creativity, and love?
Eryn Lynum is a certified master naturalist, Bible teacher, and mom of four who wants to help families encounter and understand the connection between God and creation. She shares her own story of putting her kids in front of nature, and invites other parents to consider a similar journey.
With practical sections that look at nature through the lens of the Bible and activities to integrate faith and the natural world, Rooted in Wonder helps parents instill within their kids an unshakable faith. Through the art of play, the drive of discovery, and the awe of adventure, children will gain a sense of wonder in their Creator that will last a lifetime.
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Shaping Of A Christian Family
$29.99Add to cartParenting in today’s world can feel like an uphill battle. How do we guide our children through the social and spiritual minefields of our culture? How do we make sure that they are ready when they leave the nest? And how do we trust God to watch over them as they do?
In this classic book, beloved author Elisabeth Elliot reveals cherished memories and valuable insights she gathered from her experiences growing up in a Christian home. Through the stories of her parents, grandparents, and siblings, Elliot extols the importance of obedience, prayer, trust, courtesy, and forgiveness, among many other lessons she learned as a child.
The Shaping of a Christian Family is an inspiring book for new and experienced parents, grandparents, and all who have come to trust Elliot’s compassionate wisdom.
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Select this Item Product Title/Author Availability Price QuantityYou are not alone–there is hope and healing for every hurting heart.
Today’s technology has made sinful experiences and deadly choices accessible to our teenagers and young adults with just a click. And parents are left with the disappointments–and devastating fallout–of their children’s choices.
Through sharing her own story of praying three very wayward prodigals home, Laine Lawson Craft offers not only hope and insight, but also a practical, tried-and-true battle plan for parents walking this heartbreaking season of life. You’ll discover how to
* handle the emotional roller coaster of trust
* deal with your children’s self-destructive choices
* pray emboldened by God’s promises
* fight for your child’s destiny
* and moreYou can win the war of darkness over your children–even when you don’t get the miracle you asked for.
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Shaping Of A Christian Family
$16.99Add to cartParenting in today’s world can feel like an uphill battle. How do we guide our children through the social and spiritual minefields of our culture? How do we make sure that they are ready when they leave the nest? And how do we trust God to watch over them as they do?
In this classic book, beloved author Elisabeth Elliot reveals cherished memories and valuable insights she gathered from her experiences growing up in a Christian home. Through the stories of her parents, grandparents, and siblings, Elliot extols the importance of obedience, prayer, trust, courtesy, and forgiveness, among many other lessons she learned as a child.
The Shaping of a Christian Family is an inspiring book for new and experienced parents, grandparents, and all who have come to trust Elliot’s compassionate wisdom.
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Raising Families The Jesus Way
$17.99Add to cartHow to Raise Godly Kids Today so They Can Transform Tomorrow
In today’s culture, raising godly kids is harder–and more important–than ever. In this innovative new book, pastors Frank and Mary Garcia team up with their adult children, Sarah and Sal, to offer you powerful, practical keys to grow your family God’s way.
As Mary and Frank share parenting tips, advice, encouragement, and how-tos, Sarah and Sal share their own insights on how these same lessons shaped and impacted them. Engaging, profound, and humorous, each chapter digs deep into the rich soil of God’s Word, going past surface solutions to discover the root issues of difficult behaviors and parenting problems, including how to:
* have a healthy soul to be a godly model to your kids,
* discipline effectively, not harshly,
* resolve sibling rivalry,
* protect family time,
* nourish your child’s identity and gifting,
* discern and break generational strongholds,
* and more.Full of rich wisdom and practical application, this real-world guide ultimately shows how you can shape future generations by becoming the godly role model and support your kids need.
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She Deserves Better
$17.99Add to cartWhat if the goal of raising a Christian girl was about more than keeping her virginity intact? What if it was about raising a strong, independent young woman who knows who she is, uses her voice, and confidently steps into the life God has for her?
From the authors of The Great Sex Rescue comes this evidence-based book grounded on surveys of over 28,000 women to offer moms a fresh, freeing, and biblically grounded message of sexuality and self-worth for their daughters that is less about the don’ts and more about the dos.
This isn’t your average parenting book: no pat answers or overly broad principles here. No cliche prescriptives or toxic teachings that your daughter will have to unpack and recover from as an adult, like so many of us have. Instead, you’ll find data-driven insights about how to raise a woman who is resilient, knows her strength, and has the discernment skills needed to make good choices. By reframing (and sometimes replacing) common evangelical messages to teen girls, this book will equip you to raise a girl who can navigate the difficult waters of growing up while still clinging tight to the God who created her on purpose, for a purpose.
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Raising Healthy Teenagers
$17.99Add to cartOur kids are experiencing an unprecedented sense of isolation, interacting virtually in a world that seems ever more fearful with each news cycle. They absorb and internalize the stress and anxiety they see on their parents’ faces and on the phone, laptop, tablet, and TV screens that are ever before their eyes. Not surprisingly, their mental and physical health are suffering. As parents, we want to know how we can help.
Practical and encouraging, Raising Healthy Teenagers helps you understand the mental, physical, and social toll the past couple years have taken on your kids. Then it offers proven strategies to help your teen get back onto a healthy path by:
– reducing screen time and increasing green time
– learning how to be a social being again
– developing strategies to deal with disruptions in schooling
– reclaiming a structured day
– breaking the cycle of anxiety and depression
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Talking To Children About Mental Health
$14.99Add to cartIn a world where mental health issues among younger generations are on the rise, Talking to Children About Mental Health is an invaluable resource.
An Ideal book for parents, extended family, grandparents, teachers, social workers, and anyone looking to understand the unique mental health challenges facing our children, teenagers, and students today.
Written by Lily Jo, a mental health counsellor and founder and director of the award-winning Lily Jo Project, an online resource devoted to eliminating the stigma surrounding mental health. This comprehensive book is packed with expert advice on how to talk to children about mental health and how to support children as they navigate an increasingly complex world.
It examines key mental health problems impacting Gen Z and Gen Alpha, Talking to Children About Mental Health explains how the lifestyle, culture, and world they are living in has a significant impact on their mental health.
Topics include:
*Loneliness and life lived online
*Anxiety and cancel culture in Gen Z
*Post pandemic stress disorder
*Self-esteem and self-harm
*Depression: Suicide and climate anxiety
*Political turbulence and understanding grief
*How to keep up with a changing worldLily-Jo offers essential and effective tools, exercises, and resources to help children feel stronger, happier, and more confident. Parents and care givers will also benefit from being able to openly discuss feelings with children and understanding how they are feeling.
Talking to Children About Mental Health is a must have book for anyone looking to help boost children’s happiness, self-esteem, and resilience.
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Art Of Parenting
$19.99Add to cartFrom Marriage and Family Experts Dennis and Barbara Rainey
Dennis and Barbara Rainey have spent decades helping families find biblical help to strengthen and transform family relationships. Through radio broadcasts, conferences, and other events, they have been teaching on the foundations necessary for building godly families. Now they bring insights and expertise gleaned from those years of ministry, as well as from their own personal experience of raising six children, to The Art of Parenting. Expanding on parenting themes shared with FamilyLife audiences in person and on the radio, Dennis and Barbara offer trusted advice on how to establish Christian values in your home.
In The Art of Parenting, Dennis and Barbara will help you to experience God’s truth and apply his Word in your family by focusing your attention on four crucial elements in your children’s lives:
1. Identity–understanding who they are in Christ
2. Character–learning to live wisely and honorably
3. Relationships–fostering godly connections with others
4. Mission–understanding why they are hereWhen you apply biblical truths in these four areas, you can feel confident your children will have a foundation they can build upon for the rest of their lives.
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When Children Come Out
$20.99Add to cartIf you are a parent wrestling with God, you are not alone.
When a child comes out as LGBTQ+, Christian parents often find themselves navigating unfamiliar, unsettling terrain. Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets, therapists and researchers with decades of experience, have written this book to provide perspective, insight, and the chance to learn from others who’ve shared a similar journey. Using data from studies of Christian parents of LGBTQ+ children, they deliver research-based insights and faithful wisdom that is accessible for parents, their friends, and church leaders.
Yarhouse and Zaporozhets reframe the focus away from “culture war” questions that are not helpful to families in favor of practical counsel for maintaining and deepening relationships. Parents and the church leaders who care for them will benefit from understanding key developmental considerations among teenagers and emerging adults who are navigating questions around sexual and gender identity and faith.
Identifying common patterns while acknowledging the uniqueness of each family, here is a book to guide parents in processing their own experiences, beliefs, and relationship with God. They will also discover techniques to reduce fear-based parenting choices and to express love, as the parent-child relationship continues to change and grow over time.
Filled with stories, hard-won advice from Christian parents, and questions for reflection, When Children Come Out is an essential and hopeful resource.
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Becoming An Intentional Family
$16.99Add to cartEvery child wants to be seen, known, and accepted for who they are. As parents, it’s our job to help our kids know they are valued and loved. Becoming an Intentional Family is a practical resource for creating a home where children feel that sense of security and belonging.
Anastasia Corbin says a family also functions as a “mini-church. “We are here to serve one another, encourage each other in our walks with the Lord, and serve together. The purpose of gathering our family is to build each other up and point us toward Jesus. What a beautiful way to represent Christ to this world.”
Designed to encourage, inspire, and equip Christian parents, Becoming an Intentional Family explores these five areas: family, marriage, parenting, home, and outreach with the goal of building a strong bond so children feel loved and valued.
This book is a valuable guide that will help parents become intentional in successfully raising their children, and giving them the gift of time and attention that result in lasting and meaningful memories and strong relationships.
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Mystery Of The Child
$30.99Add to cartMuch of today’s writing on children treats the child of any age as a problem or a set of problems to be solved, effectively reducing the child to a complex of biological and chemical factors, explainable in scientific terms, or regarding children as objects of adult control. In contrast, Martin Marty here presents the child as a mystery who invokes wonder and elicits creative responses that affect the care provided him or her.
Drawing on literature as new as contemporary poetry and as old as the Bible, The Mystery of the Child encourages the thoughtful enjoyment of children instead of the imposition of adult will and control. Indeed, Marty treats the impulse to control as a problem and highlights qualities associated with children — responsiveness, receptivity, openness to wonder — that can become sources of renewal for adults.
The Mystery of the Child represents a new tack for Martin Marty — universally respected as a historian, theologian, and interpreter of religion and culture — but displays the same incisive, erudite quality marking the fifty-plus books and thousands of articles that he has previously written. Marty’s broad, thoughtful perspective will inspire readers to think afresh about what it means to be a child — and to be a caregiver.
This book is sure to claim a wide readership — parents, grandparents, schoolteachers, theologians, historians — engaging anyone wanting to explore more fully the profound realm of the child.
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Love Pray Listen
$29.99Add to cartThere’s no doubt that your parenting role changes drastically when your kids become adults. You are deeply invested in and affected by your adult children’s choices. Parents whose children choose difficult–even seemingly wrong–paths deal with heartache, disappointment, and the danger of strained or severed relationships. You need a robust theology for long-term parenting gleaned from the discipleship model Jesus exemplified, one that will carefully and thoughtfully apply his way of expressing love.
Mary DeMuth has written a gracious, practical resource for wisely navigating the rocky terrain of family conflict. In this book, Mary will help you gain a better understanding of your new parental role, find reassurance that you are not alone, develop practical ways to move forward, and discover a clear path for growing in your own spiritual maturity during this phase of parenting.
Leaning on the truths of 1 Corinthians 13–the “love” chapter–the book reveals that your changing role is not the end of joy. It is an invitation for spiritual growth and a path toward fulfilling relationships with your adult children.
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Whole And Healthy Family
$29.99Add to cartAll parents want their children to thrive, but what does that actually look like? And what does it take to get there? In The Whole and Healthy Family, Jodi Mockabee shares her parenting philosophy, one that encourages the equipping of each unique child to be able to function as a whole person so that they can enter adulthood as physically, spiritually, and mentally healthy individuals. Developed over years of research and personal practice, Jodi’s whole-person and whole-family approach shows you how to:
– understand your personality and those of your spouse and children
– create a simple, wholesome home environment
– make healthy and nourishing meals
– stay active as a family
– prioritize spiritual growth and serving together
– affirm and bless one another
– and moreWhether you’re just starting your family or have been in the parenting trenches for a while and are looking for a fresh alternative to the way you’ve been doing things, Jodi can help you create a family culture that allows for the flourishing of every family member in mind, body, and spirit.
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Whole And Healthy Family
$16.99Add to cartAll parents want their children to thrive, but what does that actually look like? And what does it take to get there? In The Whole and Healthy Family, Jodi Mockabee shares her parenting philosophy, one that encourages the equipping of each unique child to be able to function as a whole person so that they can enter adulthood as physically, spiritually, and mentally healthy individuals. Developed over years of research and personal practice, Jodi’s whole-person and whole-family approach shows you how to:
– understand your personality and those of your spouse and children
– create a simple, wholesome home environment
– make healthy and nourishing meals
– stay active as a family
– prioritize spiritual growth and serving together
– affirm and bless one another
– and moreWhether you’re just starting your family or have been in the parenting trenches for a while and are looking for a fresh alternative to the way you’ve been doing things, Jodi can help you create a family culture that allows for the flourishing of every family member in mind, body, and spirit.
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Mothering By The Book
$29.99Add to cartAs a mom, you want to nurture a strong family, but fear steals your joy every day. There are times you wonder if you’re failing your children or if you’re cut out for this.Well-known homeschool mom Jennifer Pepito understands. She was intent on loving her children well, but the lies she believed about her capabilities–and even God’s faithfulness–allowed fear and worry to push her around. And self-help books were no help at all. Ultimately, she found her joy in a most surprising place: in the pages of classic literature that she was reading aloud to her children every day. Books like The Long Winter, The Hiding Place, and Pride and Prejudice helped recapture her confidence as a mom. And along the way, she found the wonder of childhood for herself and her children.
In Mothering by the Book, Jennifer takes you on a fascinating, whimsical journey that will bring freedom and fun to your parenting–one great book at a time.
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Mothering By The Book
$17.99Add to cartAs a mom, you want to nurture a strong family, but fear steals your joy every day. There are times you wonder if you’re failing your children or if you’re cut out for this.Well-known homeschool mom Jennifer Pepito understands. She was intent on loving her children well, but the lies she believed about her capabilities–and even God’s faithfulness–allowed fear and worry to push her around. And self-help books were no help at all. Ultimately, she found her joy in a most surprising place: in the pages of classic literature that she was reading aloud to her children every day. Books like The Long Winter, The Hiding Place, and Pride and Prejudice helped recapture her confidence as a mom. And along the way, she found the wonder of childhood for herself and her children.
In Mothering by the Book, Jennifer takes you on a fascinating, whimsical journey that will bring freedom and fun to your parenting–one great book at a time.
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Teach Your Children Well
$18.99Add to cartHalf of Christian high school students walk away from their faith after graduation.
But parental involvement is the most influential predictor of a child’s spirituality throughout their lives. How do we parent our kids in ways that lead to lasting faith?
Sarah Cowan Johnson unpacks how parents can have an active discipleship role in forming their children’s faith, with age-appropriate insights and strategies for different developmental stages. She shows how we can identify God moments, facilitate spiritual encounters, clarify emerging beliefs, and encourage new faith habits in our children.
Filled with exercises and activities for families to do together, this handbook is an essential resource for discipling children with confidence and creativity.
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Help Me God Im A Parent
$19.99Add to cartTrade your fear and anxiety about your children for peace, calm, and confidence in the God who loves and guides you as you parent.
Bestselling author and mom blogger Bunmi Laditan vulnerably shares the prayers she’s prayed for her children as inspiration for your own prayer life. Refreshingly relatable, bravely honest, and deeply heartwarming, Help Me, God, I’m a Parent meets you right where you’re at and gives voice to the thoughts everyone–even you–has about parenthood that they are afraid to say out loud.
In the way only she can, Bunmi echoes the same fears, joys, delights, loneliness, regrets, and love you have in your heart through prayers that . . .
*Bask in the awe and wonder of parenting
*Savor joyous moments and big accomplishments
*Make you laugh when you need it most
*Rejoice in the love you have for your children and the love God has for you
*Alleviate worry and anxiety about your children and their futures
*Bestow peace and calm in those I’m-at-the-end-of-my-rope moments
*Seek wisdom when the advice of the world fails you
*Offer humble thanks to a good God for the blessings we see and those we don’tNo prayer is more powerful than the one prayed by a parent for their child. Experience today how prayer can change not only your own life but the lives of your children.
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Raising Emotionally Strong Boys
$16.99Add to cartResearch tells us that globally, on average, one man dies by suicide every minute of every day. This staggering statistic indicates that many men suffer from hopelessness and despair. Parents may detect warning signs of hopelessness in their sons who regularly exhibit behaviors such as meltdowns, outbursts, and terse one-word answers. How can we help raise our sons to handle difficult emotions and process complex ideas of masculinity? Drawing from 25 years of counseling boys and working with parents, David Thomas explains what’s behind these and other common struggles such as anger issues, anxiety, and depression. In all, parents will be equipped to raise emotionally strong and healthy boys who will grow up to be rooted in practices of well-being that will serve them their whole lives.
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Talking To Children About Race
$31.99Add to cartDo you want to raise anti-racist children? Do you long to learn but are too scared of saying or doing the wrong thing?
Then Talking to Children about Race is for you.
But before we start talking to our children, we must start chatting honestly with one another.
Broadcaster Loretta Andrews and the educator Ruth Hill had been friends for years before the shocking death of George Floyd made it impossible not to dig deeper into the topic of race and how to explain racism to their children.
Drawing on the very real conversations that ensued, this book invites you into the dialogue to better equip you to bring up anti-racist children.
With warmth and approachability, the authors provide a history of race and explore white privilege, unconscious bias and systematic racism. They offer practical tips, ideas and activities to help you to educate, empower and raise anti-racist children today.
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Digital Detox : The Two-Week Tech Reset For Kids
$16.99Add to cartParents are familiar with the sight: grumpy, irritable, inattentive kids. You know the cause of it–too much time on digital devices. But it’s hard to know what to do about it. One day, Molly DeFrank had had enough and pulled the plug on her kids’ screen time. She was tired of her sweet children acting like addicts desperate for their next fix. The results were better than she could have ever dreamed. What started as a two-week experiment changed her family’s life.
In this shame-free book, you’ll learn and apply all of Molly’s secrets with her 14-day kick-start plan. Then, Molly equips you with all of the simple, practical, flexible tools you’ll need to continue for a lifetime.
Making a change is easier than it sounds, and the results are immediate. No more screen zombies. Digital Detox is the simple guide to overnight course correction that will help parents get their wonderful kids back.
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When Anxiety Roars
$15.99Add to cartAccording to the American Psychological Association, today’s children and teenagers are anxious about many things. In addition to the stressors common to any generation–family issues, financial instability, pressure to perform in school or sports–these young people also worry about gun violence, social justice, the state of their divided nation, the fate of a warming planet, and much more. To top it off, recent global events and resulting restrictions have added significant stress even as they have stripped away support systems.
For parents, teachers, counselors, and youth leaders longing to understand and help the young people in their lives, When Anxiety Roars unpacks the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that influence anxiety in children and offers specific practical steps to take together to tame that anxiety. Integrating faith with best practices to reduce anxiety, it also teaches coping skills that will help children live more confidently today and into the future.
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Raising Prayerful Kids
$15.99Add to cartMore than a book, Raising Prayerful Kids is a tool parents can use to make prayer fit naturally into their daily routines without it feeling like a chore or a lecture. Relatable stories of the authors’ successes and failures along with fun activities and games help parents turn everyday moments into faith-filled moments that are naturally filled with prayer.
Praying with your kids can be connecting, fun, nonintimidating, and even life changing.
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*Prayer games
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When Anxiety Roars
$29.99Add to cartAccording to the American Psychological Association, today’s children and teenagers are anxious about many things. In addition to the stressors common to any generation–family issues, financial instability, pressure to perform in school or sports–these young people also worry about gun violence, social justice, the state of their divided nation, the fate of a warming planet, and much more. To top it off, recent global events and resulting restrictions have added significant stress even as they have stripped away support systems.
For parents, teachers, counselors, and youth leaders longing to understand and help the young people in their lives, When Anxiety Roars unpacks the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that influence anxiety in children and offers specific practical steps to take together to tame that anxiety. Integrating faith with best practices to reduce anxiety, it also teaches coping skills that will help children live more confidently today and into the future.
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Raising Them Ready
$16.99Add to cartWhat is the difference between the kid who struggles to “adult” and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.
In Raising Them Ready, parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.
By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.
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Raising Them Ready
$29.99Add to cartWhat is the difference between the kid who struggles to “adult” and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.
In Raising Them Ready, parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.
By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.
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Foster The Family
$29.99Add to cartThere are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent’s day–struggling children, difficult biological parents, and a broken system–are only compounded by the many burdens of a foster parent’s heart–confusion, anxiety, heartache, anger, and fear.
With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, easy-to-read chapters, you’ll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God’s Word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.
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Raising Sons Of Promise
$18.00Add to cartMillions of single mothers find themselves in the difficult position of raising boys alone.
Many of those boys are at risk of falling behind in school or falling into addictions and dangerous behaviors, repeating the patterns of their own absent or neglectful fathers. Single mothers, who are often the only parental influence on their sons, are critical to reversing this troubling trend. But how? You might be wounded by the broken promises of your child’s father. But God offers a greater promise to you and your family. Raising Sons of Promise invites single mothers on a journey to not only heal their hearts but also to parent their boys to become healthy men, good husbands, and strong fathers. Roland Warren, himself the child of a single mother, offers guidance and wisdom to moms who want to raise sons who will make and keep their commitments. Drawing from the Genesis story of Hagar and Ishmael, he shares insights and stories of how mothers can find healing and hope for their sons to become better men of character and action. -
8 Secrets To Raising Successful Kids
$18.00Add to cartWant children who are patient, kind, humble, thankful, and respectful? Who have a good work ethic, strong character, and a healthy self-image? Who succeed in all areas of life–personally, professionally, and relationally–to the best of their ability?
You can’t force your kids to be grateful for everything you do, but you can raise successful, responsible kids who grow into adults you can be proud of. With his signature wit and wisdom, international parenting expert Dr. Kevin Leman reveals eight no-nonsense strategies that build on the foundations of character, good behavior, respect, discipline, and a winning attitude.
He shows you how to:
– expect the best to get the best
– minimize friction and optimize solutions
– put your relationship first
– and much moreIt is possible to raise a successful child in a “whatever” generation. Dr. Leman shows you just how simple it can be.
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Honey For A Childs Heart Updated And Expanded (Expanded)
$22.99Add to cartA modern classic with over 250,000 copies sold, Honey for a Child’s Heart is a compelling, essential guide for parents who want to find the best books for their children ages 0-12. This updated and expanded edition includes a new preface, an updated list of recommended reads for each age group, and audiobook suggestions.
A good book is a gateway into a wider world of wonder, beauty, delight, and adventure. But children don’t stumble onto the best books by themselves. They need a parent’s help. Author Gladys Hunt, along with her son, Mark, discusses everything from how to choose good books for your children to encouraging them to be avid readers.
Illustrated with drawings from dozens of children’s favorites, Honey for a Child’s Heart Updated and Expanded includes completely updated book lists geared to your child’s age and filled with nearly one thousand longtime favorites, classics, wonderful new books, and audiobooks that will enrich your child’s life. It will also show you how to:
*Understand the importance of being a read-aloud family, enjoying books together by reading aloud
*Give your children a large view of the world, of truth, and of goodness
*Encourage each child’s imagination and good use of language
*Find the best books for your children
Thousands of parents have used this guide to furnish their children’s inner spirit with the wonder and delight of good reading. Updated and expanded to keep pace with the ever-changing world of children’s literature, it is sure to enrich the cultural and spiritual life of your home.
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To Light Their Way
$22.99Add to cartPrayers to guide your journey of raising kids in a complicated world.
In an age of distraction and overwhelm, finding the words to meaningfully pray for our children-and for our journey as parents-can feel impossible.
Written with warmth and welcome, To Light Their Way gives voice to your prayers when words won’t come. Filled with more than 100 modern liturgies, this book guides you into an intentional conversation with God for your children and the world they live in. From everyday struggles like helping your child find friends or thrive in school to larger issues like praying for a brighter world rooted in peace and truth, these pleas and petitions act as a gentle guide, reminding us that while our words may fail, God never does.
At the core of To Light Their Way is the deepest of prayers: that our children will experience the love of God so deeply that their lives will be an outpouring of love that lights up the world.
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Preparing To Blend
$29.99Add to cartA Premarital Guide for Blended Family Couples
If you want to enter a blended family marriage well, this is the book for you. Aimed at engaged or pre-engaged couples who have at least one child from a previous relationship, Preparing to Blend offers wise counsel on parenting, finances, establishing family identity, and daily routines for your new life together. Within these pages you will learn how to:
* predict common issues
* define expectations
* create solutionsYou, your soon-to-be-spouse, and your children will benefit from exercises designed to accelerate family bonding and help you better understand each other. There is even a chapter to help you plan your wedding with your children in mind, so you can build a strong future together. Preparing to Blend is also an ideal premarital counseling tool for marriage coaches, mentors, and pastors wanting to prepare couples for complex blended family dynamics.
If you are considering forming a blended family, Preparing to Blend is the resource you’ve been looking for.
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Messy Hope : Help Your Child Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Or Suicidal Idea
$16.99Add to cartHow Can I Give My Child Hope?
“I’m such a failure.”
“No one cares about me.”
“I haven’t felt happy for a long time.”
“I don’t want to live anymore.”
If you have heard your child utter these words, your fear for their well-being has skyrocketed. But what can you do to help them?
Some experts say that depression and anxiety are the new normal. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people. As parents, we cannot accept this. Many young people feel helpless and hopeless. Our kids must be equipped with more than resilience and positivity. They need hope. Hope for a future. Along with her daughter Kendra, parent and family educator Lori Wildenberg encourages you to take the practical ways offered in Messy Hope to foster necessary hope growth in your children’s hearts. This is more than a self-help book, this is your lifeline to help them overcome depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation to experience a hope-filled life.
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Help Your Kids Learn And Love The Bible
$18.00Add to cartAs parents, we deeply desire the best for our kids. We look for the right preschool, teach them to read, and get them involved in extracurriculars. We take our job as parents seriously.
But are we also putting our time and energy into teaching them the Bible? Leading our kids to life through Scripture is not only doable, it’s an essential part of parenting kids for Jesus. And the good news is studying God’s Word as a family doesn’t have to be hard or overly time-consuming.
This book will give you the tools and confidence to study the Bible as a family. It will help you identify and overcome your objections and fears, give you a crash course in what the Bible is all about and how to teach it, and provide the tools and techniques to set up a family Bible-study habit.
You will finish this book feeling encouraged and empowered to initiate and strengthen your child’s relationship with the Lord through his Word.
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100 Words Of Affirmation Your Son Needs To Hear
$14.00Add to cartEvery one of us has tremendous power to either build others up or tear them down through the words we speak every day, and nowhere is this more evident than in our families. Are you being purposeful in how you use the power of your words to speak encouragement, strength, and love–breathing life into the heart of your children? Or are careless words having a negative impact on both your kids and your family legacy?
Matt and Lisa Jacobson want you to discover the powerful ways you can build your children up in love with the words that you choose to say every day–words that every son and daughter need to hear. These books offer you one hundred phrases to say to your son or daughter that deeply encourage, affirm, and inspire. Start speaking these words into their lives and watch your children–and your relationship with them–transform before your eyes.
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How To Listen So Your Kids Will Talk
$14.99Add to cartGood parenting depends on good communication. The problem is, we parents tend to over-talk. Not only is this ineffective, it discourages children from sharing what’s on their hearts. In this immensely practical book, communications expert Becky Harling shares the best listening practices to transform your family’s relationships and set your children up for success, including how to:
– help them express their feelings in healthy ways
– listen to affirm their strengths
– model how to navigate conflict with grace
– listen to God, knowing that he “bends down to listen” to us (Psalm 116:2 nlt)Whether your son or daughter is in preschool, grade school, or high school, intentional listening will help them feel heard, valued, and empowered to find their unique voice. The practices you put into place now will set a foundation for strong relationships into adulthood.
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Faith That Lasts
$17.99Add to cartIn their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister hear from Christian parents who worry about raising their children in the faith amid a seductive culture. Reflecting on their own very different experiences of coming to Christian faith, they share how our homes can be places of honest conversation, open-handed exploration, and lasting faith.
“Please fix my kid.” In their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister have heard many variations on this theme from concerned parents. It’s a sentiment many Christian parents can relate to-a deep and fearful sense of their own inadequacy to raise their children in the faith amid a seductive culture that’s often hostile to Christianity. In Faith that Lasts, the McAllisters reflect on their own experiences of coming to Christian faith-Stuart from a life of crime on the streets of Glasgow, and Cameron in the context of a loving Christian home. Together they outline three dangerous myths that we all too easily buy into: that fear can protect our children, that information can save them, and that their spiritual education belongs to the experts. They reconsider each myth in the light of the Christian faith and their own experiences. When our confidence is rooted in the good news of Jesus, our homes can be places of honest conversation, open-handed exploration, and lasting faith.
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Who Is God
$22.95Add to cartWould you like a dynamic way to introduce the children you love to God? Children are born with a desire to know their Creator. They are also curiously seeking to make sense of their world, before they can even speak. “Who Is God” provides an opportunity for parents to create an environment where God is known, worshipped and adored from birth. However, this book doesn’t stop with first impressions. It is designed with continuously deeper levels of growth by teaching the child to learn by asking questions, share conversations with the reader and eventually develop the ability to speak his own beliefs!
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Raising Spirit Led Kids
$17.00Add to cartWith all the responsibilities parents have raising children, one key area is often neglected: helping sons and daughters understand and grow in their spiritual gifting–at any age.
In this groundbreaking resource, children’s pastor Seth Dahl helps parents minister to and with their children, shaping them into the gifted individuals God designed them to be, while simultaneously doing damage to the kingdom of darkness. He covers important topics such as:
– creating a culture of faith at home
– helping your children navigate spiritual realities
– guiding your children to live out the kingdom in their everyday lives
– and more!By using the practical tools offered here, you will guide your children effectively and confidently. Bring the life-changing power of God into your home–and raise Spirit-led kids.
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Family Discipleship : Leading Your Home Through Time, Moments, And Mileston
$24.99Add to cartThe most important disciple a parent will make is within their own home, and yet this is the most difficult disciple to make. Family Discipleship by Matt Chandler and Adam Griffin helps readers develop a sustainable rhythm of gospel-centered discipleship through a guided framework focusing on moments of discipleship in 3 key areas: time (intentional time gathering your family around gospel activities or conversations), moments (leveraging opportunities throughout the day), and milestones (celebrating significant life events). Each section provides parents with Scriptures to consider, questions to answer, structures to implement, and ideas to try out as they seek to see Christ formed in their children. Here is a book that begins with the end in mind, offering ideas and examples of what gospel-centered family discipleship looks like, helping parents design their own discipleship plan as they seek to raise children in the love and fear of the Lord.
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Awaking Wonder Experience
$13.00Add to cartAs a parent, you want to send your children into the world with healthy minds and vibrant faith. You want to develop a strong foundation for them. But in our fast-paced, outcome-based, technologically driven society, it’s easy to lose sight of the innocence, potential, and uniqueness of each child. Childlike wonder can become lost in the fog of formulas that view children through the distorting lens of social expectations.
Awaking Wonder helps parents unearth the hidden potential of their child’s imagination, learning capacity, and ability to engage authentically with the world.
Bestselling author Sally Clarkson will help you reach your child’s heart of wonder through the principles that guided her in raising four children, all of whom made it into adulthood with a vibrant faith intact and are now flourishing in creative, high-performing professions.
Through these pages you will:
* gain confidence in your role as a God-designed guide and teacher for your children
* help your children awaken to the wonder all around them
* develop healthy minds that can stand up against societal norms, providing them with a life-giving education and a love for learningThe companion guide, The Awaking Wonder Experience, will help readers apply the principles in practical ways.
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Disconnected : How To Protect Your Kids From The Harmful Effects Of Device
$18.00Add to cartThere’s no denying the clear connection between overuse of devices–smartphones, computers, and video games–and the growing mental health crisis, especially in our children. Too much screen time has a real, measurable effect on kids’ brains, self-esteem, emotional development, and social skills. We aren’t controlling our devices anymore–they’re controlling us.
In Disconnected, psychotherapist and parenting expert Thomas Kersting offers a comprehensive look at how devices have altered the way our children grow up, behave, learn, and connect with their families and friends. Based on the latest studies on the connection between screen time and neuroplasticity, as well as the growing research on acquired ADHD and anxiety, Disconnected presents a better way to move forward. Kersting shares indispensable advice for parents on setting boundaries and engaging in concentration and mindfulness exercises.
If you want to reclaim your family and reconnect with your kids, this hard-hitting yet hopeful book is the place to start.
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Engaging Your Teens World
$15.99Add to cart“Netflix and chill,” “broccoli,” and LGBTTQQIAAP+. If you don’t know what these words and phrases really mean to your teen, you are not alone. The verbal terrain of today’s youth can be difficult to navigate, and sometimes requires a guide–a culture translator to help parents of teens decipher the codes and unlock the doors to an ongoing conversation about faith and life.
David Eaton provides just that in Engaging Your Teen’s World, teaching you how to maintain open communication about everything from relationships to technology and media in order to help teens grow in their faith and successfully deal with difficult issues. Eaton brings a wealth of frontline experience, sharing a big-picture view of your teen’s world and how to interact with it, followed by more specific information on:
* what your teen is thinking, doing, and watching
* conversations about sex, gender, porn, sexting, and drugs
* being a missionary to your teen
* and much moreDespite the many challenges facing teens and their parents, this frank, insightful, and practical book offers a hopeful view toward the long-term goals of your relationship with your teen and for their relationship with the Lord.
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Love Her Well
$19.99Add to cartMoms are eager for tips and wisdom to help them build strong relationships with their daughters, and Kari Kampakis’s Love Her Well gives them ten practical ways to do so, not by changing their daughters but by changing their own thoughts, actions, and mind-set.
For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. Yet as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to gloom and doom as moms are told, “Just wait until she’s a teenager!” and handed a disheartening script that treats a teenage girl’s final years at home as solely a season to survive.
Author and blogger Kari Kampakis suggests it’s time to change the narrative and mind-set that lead moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat, not strength. By improving the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship, mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support.
As a mom of four daughters (three of whom are teenagers), Kari has learned the hard way that as girls grow up, mothers must grow up too. In Love Her Well, Kari shares ten ways that moms can better connect with their daughters in a challenging season, including:
*choosing their words and timing carefully,
*listening and empathizing with her teen’s world,
*seeing the good and loving her for who she is,
*taking care of themselves and having a support system, and more.This book isn’t a guide to help mothers “fix” their daughters or make them behave. Rather, it’s about a mom’s journey, doing the heart work and legwork necessary to love a teenager while still being a strong, steady parent. Kari explores how every relationship consists of two imperfect sinners, and teenagers gain more respect for their parents when they admit (and learn from) their mistakes, apologize, listen, give grace, and try to understand their teens’ point of view. Yes, teenagers need rules and consequences, but without a connected relationship, parents may never gain a significant voice in their lives or be a safe place they long to return to.
By admitting her personal failures and prideful mistakes that have hurt her relationships with her teenage daughters, Kari gives mothers hope and reminds them all things are possible through God. By leaning on him, mothers gain the wisdom, guidance, protection, and clarity they need to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age, especially during the critical teen years.
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Small But Mighty
$16.99Add to cartA Parent’s Guide to Raising Spiritual Warriors
Every night, Sharee Dorsett’s three-year-old son was tormented by frightening dreams and visions. She would turn on the lights to show him that nothing was there. But each morning, he would wake with bites and scratches all over his body.
Crying out to God for answers, Sharee heard the Holy Spirit say, “Why are you lying to him? There is something in his room.” She questioned: “God, what do you want me to do, tell my little boy that there are monsters in his room?” The Lord responded “No! Teach his hands to war.”
Sharee began seeking God’s strategy for equipping children to know their own spiritual authority, to walk in spiritual discernment, and to wield supernatural weapons for spiritual warfare.
In Small but Mighty, she imparts these strategies to you.
Empower your children to…
*Overcome bullying dark forces
*Discover their identity as children of the King
*Walk in peace and confidence because of a relationship with God
*Guard their gates connected to the supernatural realm
*Pray scripture to activate angelic assistanceNow more than ever, we must equip this generation for victory over the enemy. Start training your children for victorious spiritual warfare today!
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Adventuring Together : How To Create Connections And Make Lasting Memories
$18.99Add to cartA modern, practical, and inspiring guide to creating deep heart connections with kids by regularly creating new experiences and intentional adventures together.
Parents today complain of fragmented relationships with their kids. What parents yearn for–and their kids too–is deep, heart-to-heart connections. But how can parents compete with all the other noise fighting for their kids’ attention?
The answer, says Greta Eskridge, is to break free from regular routines and familiar comforts of home to experience new places and adventures–even if those adventures go awry. From simply reading a book together to going on an overnight backpacking trip, activities together provide unique and crucial bonding opportunities. Adventuring Together highlights Greta’s stories of doing just that, including:
*an array of ideas for outdoor and indoor ventures,
*what to do when your finances are limited,
*and how to adventure if your family can’t hit the hiking trail or spend the night at a campground.Giving readers the tools to make adventures happen, Adventuring Together is a step-by-step guide for parents–whether in the city or the country–to start building connections today that will last a lifetime.
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Let Them Be Kids
$18.99Add to cartAs every parent hopes to raise kids with good manners and values, Jessica Smartt’s practical guide fills the gaps of uncertainty and provides tips on how parents can equip their children in purity, faith, and creativity.
Former English teacher and homeschooling mother of three, Jessica Smartt felt the weight of helping prepare her kids for life, especially with all the outside pressures and influence of the world. She struggled with how she could raise her children with a sense of adventure, self-confidence, manners, faith, and the ability to utilize technology wisely.
Let Them Be Kids is Jessica’s offering of grace and confidence to moms, giving them practical ideas to meet these challenges. Her well-researched, tested methods, woven together with her personal stories and witty humor, deliver wisdom on the tough topics of life, such as:
*family time vs. outside activities,
*being “cool” or not,
*boredom,
*technology usage
*sexual purity, and
*showing grace when kids disobey.Part story and part guidebook, every chapter includes doable strategies and encouragement for the journey.
Let Them Be Kids helps moms feel confident and equipped with ways to provide a safe, healthy, Christ-centered childhood for their children. It leads them to conquer fear and find truth that transforms them and their families as it reminds them how to enjoy and cherish the special memory-making moments of building family values together.
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700 Real Christian Names
$16.99Add to cartChoosing a name for a child is one of the most important decisions parents make and it requires careful thought and consideration. The twenty-first century has seen a revival in names from the Bible, challenging the popularity of more modern names. This book is a guide for parents who want to choose a real Christian name for their child, answering the questions: What does the name mean? Where does it originate from? What are its Christian roots? How did it come to be a Christian name? Where applicable, the name day of the saint associated with the forename is given, for those parents who would like their child to know and celebrate their own special name day.
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My Good Life
$27.99Add to cartAfter giving birth to her daughter Taylor at the age of 20, Eraina decided she would live a good life despite her circumstances. Even after receiving a diagnosis of profound hearing loss and autism for her daughter Taylor, she went on to earn three academic degrees including one from Yale University. In the process of living in three different cities and navigating education and personal hurdles, she discovered something profound and universal: this isn’t a normal life, it’s a good life. My Good Life is the story of perseverance, faith, and hope. It is a story wrapped in goodness and love.
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Guiding The Next Great Generation
$19.00Add to cartIt’s cliche to say today’s adults hope the best for the next generation, yet fear the worst. As the gap between generations widens and our shared experiences dwindle, adults find it increasingly difficult to connect with and remain relevant to today’s young people. So the question is, what values can we pass on that will help them to become the next great generation? And how do we communicate those values effectively?
In this paradigm-shifting book, Jonathan Catherman shares with adults raised in the 1900s a fresh look at guiding 21st-century youth to become confident and capable adults. With relevant research and real-world examples, Catherman shows us the benefits of practicing and teaching four principles that will unite and empower us all:
– build bridges between generations
– transform raw talent into valued strengths
– practice stewardship before leadership
– live with purposeWhether the emerging generation knows it or not, they need you. Their greatness tomorrow begins with your guidance today.
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Talking With Your Kids About Jesus
$17.99Add to cartChristian parenting is hard work–and it’s getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith but fear that today’s increasingly skeptical and hostile world will eventually lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. This practical and timely resource gives parents the confidence of knowing what to discuss with their children and how to discuss it in order to facilitate impactful conversations that will form the basis of a lifelong faith.
In a friendly, parent-to-parent voice, Natasha Crain identifies 30 specific conversations about Jesus that parents must have with their children. Chapters are sequenced in a curriculum-oriented way to provide a cumulative learning experience, making this book a flexible resource for use in multiple settings: homes, church classes, youth groups, small groups, private Christian schools, and homeschools. Every chapter has a step-by-step conversation guide with discussion questions and tips, and content is readily adaptable for use with kids of any age (elementary through high school).
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Cousin Camp : A Grandparent’s Guide To Creating Fun, Faith, And Memories Th
$16.00Add to cartIn a world where our families are more scattered than ever, true and lasting family connections are hard to forge and even harder to maintain–and they don’t happen by accident. For grandparents who long to create a close-knit bond in their family, popular speaker and parenting expert Susan Alexander Yates has a revolutionary new book.
Cousin Camp is an inspiring, practical book that outlines how grandparents can plan and host a camp. Grandmother to 21 grandchildren, Yates has been creating cousin camps and family camps for years. Now she passes on what she’s learned so you can help your children and grandchildren develop meaningful, lasting connections with each other–and with you!
Full of specific, practical ideas and hilarious stories, this book contains everything you need to know from initial planning (who, when, and where) to a daily schedule to specific ways to build friendships among family members. Yates also includes plenty of ideas for family camps and reunions to draw everyone closer.
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Spiritual Conversations With Children
$20.99Add to cartWe are born into this world with a natural longing to connect to God and other human beings.
When children have a listening companion who hears, acknowledges, and encourages their early experiences with God, it creates a spiritual footprint that shapes their lives. How can we increase our capacity to engage children in spiritual conversations? In this book Lacy Finn Borgo draws on her own experience of practicing spiritual direction with children. She offers an overview of childhood spiritual formation and introduces key skills for engaging conversation–posture, power, and patterns–from a Christ-centered perspective. “When we are fully present and open to another, we will be changed,” Borgo writes. “Indeed, as you listen to God with a child, the child will lead you into a fuller experience of God’s love and acceptance.” In this book you’ll find:
*Sample interactive dialogues with children
*Ideas for engaging children with play, art, and movement
*Prayers to use togetherWhether you are a parent or grandparent, pastor or spiritual director, you will find this to be a friendly guide into deeper ways of listening.
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Raising Giant Killers
$15.99Add to cartBestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help parents discover the keys to successful parenting in God’s kingdom through their powerful book Raising Giant-Killers. “Parents, we rule for the purpose of protection, but we also serve with the purpose of empowering,” they write. “We want to release our children into their destiny–that’s the privilege of parenting.
“In these pages, you will gain the wisdom, kingdom concepts, and practical tools you need to help raise your children to their God-given potential.
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When Your Kid Is Hurting
$19.00Add 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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Raising Boys Who Respect Girls
$17.99Add to cartDave Willis, author, speaker, and father of four boys, talks biblically and practically about how to raise a generation of boys who are champions, encouragers, and respecters of women.
In the #metoo and #churchtoo era, with so many men and boys continuing to make the same mistakes, we have to ask: Where are we going wrong? And perhaps more importantly, how do we raise up men who will break this cycle?
As the father of four boys, relationship coach and author Dave Willis has studied this issue deeply, concluding that if we are to raise boys to respect girls—and not end up with men who say they respect women but whose actions reveal otherwise–we must go back to the heart of things. Or, more specifically, we must go back to our own hearts.
In Raising Boys Who Respect Girls, Willis helps readers inventory the blind spots that lead to accidental forms of disrespect, showing how to root out issues in our own hearts before we inadvertently pass along these same issues to our boys. He also teaches readers how to cultivate a healthy respect for God and for themselves as created in his image, as well as a similar respect for others. Full of scripture, research, age-specific tools, and conversation models, this book offers a practical strategy for mindful parents to first embody the right principles themselves and then teach them to their sons.
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In Their Shoes
$18.00Add to cartUsing stories of others, research, and firsthand experiences, Lauren Reitsema helps you discover what’s going on in the heart and mind of your stepchild when you encounter resistance and teaches you how to walk beside them and see things from their point of view. Your efforts will pay off in stronger, closer blended family relationships.
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God Confident Kids
$18.00Add to cartUsing examples from her family’s experiences as well as from counseling children in transitional homes and interviewing hundreds of people, author and speaker equips parents to develop a humble, compassionate confidence in their children by learning God-confidence instead of self-confidence.
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Raising Disciples : How To Make Faith Matter For Our Kids
$19.99Add to cartChildren and youth will just “catch” the faith of their parents, right?
Not necessarily. Talking with kids about Jesus no longer comes naturally to many Christian parents. In Raising Disciples, pastor Natalie Frisk helps us reconnect faith and parenting, equipping parents to model what following Jesus looks like in daily life. Filled with authenticity, flexibility, humor, and prayer, Frisk outlines how parents can make openings for their children to experience God in their daily lives.
As curriculum pastor at The Meeting House, one of the largest churches in Canada, Frisk calls parents who follow Christ to ask the big questions about the spiritual formation of children and teens. In practical and thoughtful ways, she equips parents to disciple their kids in various stages of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Raising Disciples will awaken parents to the possibly of Jesus-centered parenting and encourage us to engage in the lost art of discipling our own kids.
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Raising Disciples: : How To Make Faith Matter For Our Kids
$29.99Add to cartChildren and youth will just “catch” the faith of their parents, right?
Not necessarily. Talking with kids about Jesus no longer comes naturally to many Christian parents. In Raising Disciples, pastor Natalie Frisk helps us reconnect faith and parenting, equipping parents to model what following Jesus looks like in daily life. Filled with authenticity, flexibility, humor, and prayer, Frisk outlines how parents can make openings for their children to experience God in their daily lives.
As curriculum pastor at The Meeting House, one of the largest churches in Canada, Frisk calls parents who follow Christ to ask the big questions about the spiritual formation of children and teens. In practical and thoughtful ways, she equips parents to disciple their kids in various stages of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Raising Disciples will awaken parents to the possibly of Jesus-centered parenting and encourage us to engage in the lost art of discipling our own kids.
Foreword by Marv Penner, director of the National Center for Excellence in Youth Ministry
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Raising Worry Free Girls
$16.99Add to cartIn a world fraught with worry and anxiety, veteran counselor Sissy Goff offers practical advice on how you can instill bravery and strength in your daughter, helping her understand why her brain is often working against her when she starts to worry and what she can do to fight back.
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Confident Moms Confident Daughters
$17.00Add to cartEvery mother wants her daughter to love the skin she’s in, to be free of insecurity and poor body image. But no matter how much we try to tell our daughters that they are beautiful and lovable as they are, words are not enough. And if we’re honest, we don’t always set the best example of being body confident. Until we truly see ourselves as good enough, our girls will struggle.
With deep compassion, Maria Furlough delves into the root causes of our insecurity, offers biblical guidance for seeing ourselves as God sees us, and shows how to model our newfound confidence to our impressionable daughters. Speaking as a daughter, a youth leader, and a mother, Furlough shares her own struggles and triumphs, as well as expert advice from a pediatrician, a nutritionist, a Christian counselor, and more.
What we say to our daughters might last a moment. What we show our daughters lasts a lifetime. With God’s help, we can put aside our obsession with bodily perfection and refocus on becoming and raising godly women.
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Protecting Your Child From Predators
$17.00Add to cartEven good parents often underestimate the dangers their children face. Research indicates that one in four females and one in six males are sexually abused before age 18. In most cases, the enemy is not a faceless stranger; it’s someone you know and trust–a neighbor, a coach, or even a family member.This book provides practical steps to ensure you’re doing all you can to reduce the risks of abuse. But since you cannot be with your children 24/7, it goes beyond what you can do as a parent to teach you how to increase your child’s own awareness and strategies in the face of potential dangers–without making them fearful.Dr. Robinson, whose decades-long practice focuses on abused and endangered children, calls on her own case studies to show age-appropriate conversation starters for parents, teaching them how to ask the right questions and provide the right boundaries.This book will help you move from fear to confidence on this heavy topic that is just too important to ignore.