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Father Force
$15.99Add to cartIn Father Force, Phillip Davis reveals the purpose and destiny intended for the role of the father. Father Force deals with the critical issues that face our society and fathers of the day including the growing fatherless generation and the role the church plays in this society.
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1st 90 Days Of Marriage
$18.99Add to cartMost married couples look back on their first few months of marriage as a roller-coaster time of surprises, awakenings, and lots of ups and downs. But Eric and Leslie Ludy, bestselling authors of When God Writes Your Love Story, show couples in this practical, inspirational book how to transform the whirlwind of the first days of marriage into a sure foundation that will support them for a lifetime. The Ludys teach men and women readers how to use those crucial first 90 days to develop all the necessary habits for a happy, satisfying marriage-habits of kindness, forgiveness, fun, warmth, reconciliation, and patience.Filled with down-to-earth advice and questions for reflection, The First 90 Days of Marriage is destined to become a classic for newlyweds and engaged couples. And even if your marriage is well past those first 90 days, it’s never to late to put these principles to work. You’ll love the results.
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How To Really Parent Your Teenager
$18.99Add to cartIn this timely, relevant guide, parents will learn proactive strategies for unpacking one of God’s greatest mysteries: their teenager.It’s an MTV world, and teenagers are under more pressure than ever to grow up fast, look sexy, and be independent. Teens are bombarded with messages from the mainstream media at every turn. How to Really Parent Your Teenager provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of this tumultuous world of adolescence, outlining strategies for parents to be relevant and effective. Best-selling author Dr. Ross Campbell has spent more than 30 years studying the parent-child relationship and counseling thousands of parents. Into this rapidly changing culture he offers a guidebook of positive, proven strategies for real-world problems. Parents will learn how to spot depression and anticipate rebellion, how to discuss sexuality and keep anger in check, and most importantly, how to maintain communication and communicate love. Foreword by Dr. Gary Chapman.
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Tears Of Joy For Mothers
$16.99Add to cartAmidst the hectic pace of parenting, marriage, and life, this book helps mothers escape for short periods of time to let their minds and emotions be swept away by character and stories they can relate to–deep, heart-felt stories that will move them to tears of joy and appreciation for what God can do in and with their lives. These heart-tugging stories, gathered by America’s most beloved story anthologizer, affirm the ultimate value motherhood and help mothers everywhere grow in their appreciation for life and the children they love. A great gift for Mother’s Day or all year round.
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Leading Your Child To Jesus
$17.99Add to cartWhat will you say when your child asks how Jesus can fit inside his heart?
Here’s help with responding in words your little one will understand. Leading Your Child to Jesus equips you with the simple, effective communication tools that will help you discuss salvation with your child. They’ve been proven through David Staal’s years with Willow Creek Community Church’s Promiseland children’s ministry and through his personal experiences as a parent.
Learn how to share you own salvation story, explain the gospel in kid-friendly language, and lead your child in a prayer of salvation. Based on examples from the book of Acts, Leading Your Child to Jesus provides you with key biblical concepts on effective communication and includes exercises to help you put those concepts into action.
The enormity of leading your child to Christ doesn’t have to leave you tongue-tied. You can help your little one make the most important decision of his or her life-the decision to follow Jesus.
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Raising Children On Purpose
$16.99Add to cartParent by Accident or Parent on Purpose?
Your child has a God-given purpose that is too important to be left to chance. As parents, we have a sacred opportunity to help our children find their way-the way they were created to go. When a child has insight into God’s special plan for his life, he will be more passionate about following Jesus, better able to focus his energies on what is most important, and equipped to make wiser decisions.
Raising Children on Purpose will help you…
*Assess your child’s natural talents and gifts
*Recognize and encourage your child’s interests
*Determine the point at which gifting and interest overlap
*Discipline your child in positive ways that inspire confidence
*Promote emotional health and good decision making in your child
*Prepare your child for career choicesWes Fleming’s Raising Children on Purpose offers practical advice with a generous sprinkling of humor.
Your children can fulfill their God-given potential!
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Nanny To The Rescue
$18.99Add to cartBabies don’t come with instructions. And since today’s parents are so overwhelmed with schedules and demands, they have little time to bone up on the parenting skills. Often removed from grandparents and relatives who in times past lives next door or just down the street, they have no one to guide them through the disorienting world or raising children. Enter Nanny to the Rescue! Michelle LaRowe, 2004 International Nanny Association “Nanny of the Year,” gives her tried and true solutions to childcare. Her expertise with chapters title “Who’s the boss?” and “Discipline is not a four letter word” gives confidence to parents who need specific ideas for real day-to-day problems. A proud member of Christian Nannies, Michelle offers foundational truths sure to help encourage moms and dads.
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Letting Them Go
$19.99Add to cartThis book offers support, help and understanding from a parent who’s been there. He also offers practical advice for the time together before they leave, and a sneak peak at issues that will arise after they’re gone. This book will help ease pressure and calm emotions every family will face. Preparing children with practical and spiritual advice will help ensure that their venture into the world is a success.
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Boundaries With Teens
$19.99Add to cartIn this exciting new book, Dr. Townsend gives important keys for establishing healthy boundaries-the bedrock of good relationships, maturity, safety, and growth for teens and the adults in their lives. The book offers help in raising your teens to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.
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Surprise Child : Finding Hope In Unexpected Pregnancy
$16.00Add to cartUnplanned pregnancies happen to women in every season of life: the newly married, the never-married, the empty-nester, the teenager, the overworked mother, the career woman. Yet we rarely talk about how lonely and confusing this experience can be. Leslie Leyland Fields, who experienced two unplanned pregnancies in her forties, weaves her own story with the stories of other women who understand the isolation you face as expectations and plans are turned upside down to make room for a child. Together, these women walk with you month-by-month through the physical and emotional stages of pregnancy, voicing their own anxieties and struggles. Here you will find the companionship and hope you need to journey toward a new life.
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Father Me
$14.99Add to cartLooking for a father figure? Someone who will embrace and love you unconditionally? Someone who will listen to your stories and coach you through life’s journey? Can’t find him? Search no more. This book will help you to understand that you are not alone. Father Me surveys the actions of fathers and how it impacts their children, focusing on the relationship between children’s anger, or wrath, and their fathers’ actions. The Bible puts it best: “Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, lest they be discouraged.” Father Me is a comprehensive handbook for individuals, especially parents who are seeking help for their hurting and angry children through a six-step, biblically based counseling strategy. This approach promises to bring inner and complete healing to the broken.
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Rekindling The Romance
$19.99Add to cartBy God’s design, romance is supposed to be the flame in the fireplace of marital intimacy. Yet far too many Christian couples feel cheated because their marriage produces as much spark as a book of wet matches. Others have neglected to fan the flames of passion for so long that they have lost hope of experiencing romance. Rekindling the Romance, now available in trade paper, is organized into short, biblically-based chapters. Packed with practical insight, this tastefully candid and inviting resource provides the Christian couple with the keys to unlock their relational and sexual intimacy.
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Sacred Unions : A New Guide To Lifelong Commitment
$18.95Add to cartSacred Union is a book about true love. By true love – or romance – the author refers to sexual passion that deepens into the permanent union of two persons in heart, body, and mind. The book is therefore addressed to all true lovers; straight or gay, deep into the adventure of a shared life or just contemplating it, or emerging out of a failed attempt. Lifelong union, Breidenthal asserts, is of central importance in all circumstances, and it remains a viable option for all of us, no matter who we are or what our story is.
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Mothers Cant Be Everywhere But God Is
$12.99Add to cart1. Motherhood: History And Hope
2. Only One Is Perfect And He Is In You
3. Helicopter Mom, You’re Creating A Draft
4. Keeping Up Appearances
5. Claiming Your Own Identity
6. When Both You And They Make Mistakes
7. The Sound Of Silence
8. No Meddling Zone
9. Dealing With Dads
10. Shedding The Skin Of Guilt
11. Shattering The Stereotypes
12. Contentment In Christ
Appendix 1: Voices That Vote
Appendix 2: Reading ResourcesAdditional Info
Alice Scott-Ferguson offers a far-reaching grasp of God’s plan for motherhood. Designed to be read on-the-go by busy mothers, this book has something for you at every stage in raising your children ~ a book that enlightens and encourages you with the assurance that the God who runs the universe can take care of your children and loves them beyond the fiercest mother love. -
Welcoming Children : A Practical Theology Of Childhood
$34.99Add to cartWelcoming Children develops a theology of childhood both from a theological perspective and from practical experience in children and youth ministry. The author draws insights from classic and modern feminist theologians, pastoral theologians, and contemporary cultural criticism to offer strategies for educational and liturgical practices in congregations that welcome children and contribute to their flourishing. Mercer outlines a feminist practical theology of childhood exploring five basic theological claims: 1) children as gifts and parenting as a religious practice of stewardship; 2) welcoming those who care for children; 3) children as fully human; 4) children as part of God’s purposes; and 5) acknowledging and transforming the sufferings of children. Her compelling argument reframes ministries with children as processes through which the church can become the foundation for children forming identities that resist consumerist culture and instead walk in the ways of Jesus.
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Covenant Marriage In Comparative Perspective
$40.99Add to cartCovenant marriages requiring premarital counseling and tighter strictures on divorce have recently emerged in some American states. At the same time, the doctrine of covenant has reemerged in religious circles as a common way to map the spiritual dimensions of marriage. Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective brings together eminent scholars from Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and Islamic religious traditions as well as experts on American covenant marriage. The introduction carries out an unprecedented comparison of contract and covenant in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim understandings of marriage. The rest of the book elucidates various facets of marriage from the perspectives of both jurisprudence and religion, producing an enlightening integrated picture of the legal and spiritual dimensions of marriage.
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Celebration Of Sex For Newlyweds
$14.99Add to cartA guide to enjoying God’s gift of married sexual pleasure, now in trade paper. A Celebration of Sex for Newlyweds answers specific, often unasked questions about sexual topics, and presents newly-married couples with detailed techniques and behavioral skills for learning sexual pleasure and intimate companionship. An excellent tool for premarital counseling and a wonderful gift for the newly-married, this book offers invaluable information in a professional yet sensitive style.
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How To Choose A Life Partner
$15.99Add to cartThis insightful book deals with practical aspects of marriage and relationships, based on God-given principles. It deals with issues such as abuse, communication, temperament, finances and infidelity head-on, and points out how they influence the relationship between a man and a woman.
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Sex Marriage And Family Life In John Calvins Geneva Volume 1
$48.99Add to cartYou would not expect this from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western understanding of sex, marriage, and family life. In this fascinating, even sensational, volume John Witte and Robert Kingdon treat comprehensively the new theology and law of domestic life that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Bringing to light and life hundreds of newly discovered cases and theological texts, Witte and Kingdon trace the subtle historical forms and norms of sex, marriage, and family life that still shape us today.
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Marriage Covenant
$15.99Add to cartIs your marriage less than what you envisioned? Are you suffering in a bad marriage, but don’t want to be the next divorce statistic?
If you find yourselves divided as a couple while you focus on who is at fault rather than what can be done – here is the answer!
In Marriage Covenant, Derek Prince unravels the principle of covenant and how we can build “a cord of three strands” that cannot be broken.
By following God’s plan for marriage, you will build a relationship that faces difficulties, overcomes them, and emerges stronger than ever.
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Communication : 6 Studies (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Add to cartHow can you “give life” to your marriage with your words?
Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III have together written this inductive Bible study guide to help couples build healthy and happy marriages. Through six study sessions for individuals, couples or groups, they help you explore differences that might hinder communication and learn strategies that can strengthen your marriage.
Intimate Marriage Bible studies bring spouses into deeper communion with God and with each other. In marriage a man and a woman are called to leave their families of origin, to weave their individual lives into a unity and to cleave to each other. How can fallen human beings even begin to contemplate this ideal–God’s ideal?
These studies will help you take small but real steps toward honoring the image of God in each other and living out God’s goal for marriage. As you explore and respond to Scripture together, you will discover strength and beauty in your marriage and become even more intimate companions.
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Black Pearls For Parents
$13.95Add to cartEric V. Copage’s Black Perls became an instant best-seller and was the winner of the Blackboard African-American Bestsellers award for best nonfiction book of 1994. Now he has created a book of inspirational thoughts, practical advice, and pearls of wisdom specifically for African-American parents. The 365 quotes that begin each day’s entry range from African proverbs to wisdom and insight from Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Willie Mays, Marva Collins, and Marian Wright Edelman, among hundreds of other diverse and accomplished people of African descent.
Each day’s entry covers a topic that affects parents (and their children)-including Role Models, Friends, Procrastination, Affection, Priorities, Independence, Stress, Faith and hundreds more. From the daily inspirations, author Eric V. Copage suggests meditations and specific actions that will provide guidance, comfort, and inspiration to African-American parents as they deal with the pressures and joys of raising children in today’s world.
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Thoughts On Children 2nd Edition
$8.00Add to cartTheres a saying that each child is a thought in the mind of God. But even if we believe this, and approach the children entrusted to us with the reverence that such a belief ought to instill, we may often feel helpless whether in the face of a two-year-olds tantrum or a teenagers silence. In this little book, two fathers (themselves a father and son) share their thoughts on the essence of bringing up children. Whats more, the authors are the Blumhardts, whose huge contribution to 20th century theology, especially Karl Barth, is now being more widely recognized.
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Got Teens
$14.99Add to cartJill Savage, founder of Hearts at Home ministries, and Pam Farrel, cofounder of Masterful Living Ministries, can shout “Yes” to the question, “Got Teens?” They offer common sense solutions, insightful research, and creative ideas to help women guide their children successfully into adulthood. Moms don’t have to be perfect, just prepared with practical, biblical tools to
*identify and develop each child’s strengths
*make choices over what kids can do and who with
*turn around destructive behavior or bad habitsTweens and teens need strong moms who know which parental role to play at the right time. Moms will discover how to serve as a defender, a shepherd, a CEO or one of the other twelve vital roles.
This book is published in connection with Hearts at Home. For more information on Hearts at Home, visit www.hearts-at-home.org.
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I Love You More
$18.99Add to cartLearn how marriages can thrive when couples use everyday difficulties to strengthen their relationships! Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott reveal the most common sources of marital discord; the fine line between obstacles and opportunities; the importance of accepting the two sides of sex and intimacy; and the five not-so-easy steps for solving problems.
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Dad If You Only Knew
$12.99Add to cartAs exasperating as parenting can be during these volatile years, your teen is depending on you for steady faithfulness, love, and guidance. And because teens often find words elusive and expression difficult, they probably haven’t told you the things they wish you somehow automatically knew. So let Dad, If You Only Knew be your guide. Josh Weidmann, just out of the teen years himself, joins his father, James, to help dads understand where their kids are coming from. It’s a messy world they live in, and meeting them in it is no simple task. But knowing these essentials now makes fatherhood eight times easier!
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Love And Respect Workbook (Workbook)
$18.99Add to cartSuccessful couples know that harmony and happiness in marriage are not achieved by love alone. There is the other side of the Ephesians 5:33 equation respect. Yes, a wife needs love. But a husband needs respect. Based on extensive biblical and scientific research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the secret to couples meeting each other’s deepest needs: Without love she reacts without respect, and without respect he reacts without love and a destructive, vicious cycle begins.
Love and Respect is a groundbreaking book, to be featured on Focus on the Family, which offers much-needed help to husbands and wives everywhere. It introduces the biblical teaching of unconditional respect, and that it is as powerful as unconditional love. Discover the secret revealed by God that cracks the communication code between male and female and reap the benefits of marriage as God intended.
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Long Distance Grandma
$16.99Add to cartAccording to an AARP survey, 45 percent of grandparents report that the primary barrier to seeing their grandchildren is the physical distance that separates them. Yet, the desire to communicate is strong. Janet Teitsort, a long-distance grandma herself, comes to the rescue with a year’s worth of ideas to remain close even when the miles divide. Among her numerous ideas are art projects, recipes, and simple gifts that keep hearts knitted together. Whether children are toddlers or collegiates, Teitsort offers a cornucopia of connection possibilities including a strong recommendation for grandparents to embrace technology with ideas involving audiotape, videotape, email, and the internet. As the grandparent population swells with Baby Boomers, this book is truly timely.
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Give God The Glory The Godly Family Life
$13.00Add to cartThis book continues in the tradition of the Give God the Glory! books and devotionals, with a unique focus on the biblical purpose and role of the father, mother, and child(ren). In this book, readers will clearly understand that the man is the foundation of the family, the family is the foundation of the church, and the church is the foundation of our nation. We will glorify God through the family unit and understand our specific roles within the family structure as God intended. To this end, our Heavenly Father is glorified as we, His earthen vessels, demonstrate to the world the beauty and fulfillment of The Godly Family Life.
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Good Husbands Guide To Balancing Hobbies And Marriage
$13.99Add to cartHarvest House Print On Demand Title
Avid hunter Steve Chapman (A Look at Life from a Deer Stand-200,000 copies sold) enthusiastically pursues a lifelong hobby while remaining passionate about his wife and home. Knowing the perils of spending too much time in the woods, he prayed, studied God’s Word, and sought advice. The result? Nine life-changing principles to balancing hobbies and marriage, including-
*investing equal finances in his spouse’s interests
*spending more time with his wife than with his hobby
*communicating desire to be with his family
*sharing the child-rearing load
*making sure hobby doesn’t cause a messWhether their passion is hunting, golf, or team sports, this guide will help men participate in hobbies and keep their families happy.
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I Love You More Workbook For Women (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartRelationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe the same forces that can tear down a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness–provided you learn the secrets to using everyday problems to strengthen your marriage. In this workbook companion for the book, they help women explore how a marriage survives and thrives when a couple learns to use problems to boost their love life, to literally lover each other more.
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I Love You More Workbook For Men (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartRelationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe the same forces that can tear down a marriage can become the catalyst for new relational depth and richness–provided you learn the secrets to using everyday problems to strengthen your marriage. In this workbook companion for the book, they help men explore how a marriage survives and thrives when a couple learns to use problems to boost their love life, to literally lover each other more.
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Attitude Adjustment Needed Now (Workbook)
$15.99Add to cartHaving worked with hundreds of children experiencing problems with anger, Dr. David E. Miller has created a simple two-part workbook designed for these children and their parents. The workbook promotes several activities to help children learn ten coping skills for expressing anger appropriately and reducing impulsive outbursts or inappropriate expressions of anger. The coping skills are presented as “tricks” that can help a child learn to control his or her anger. By working through the children’s portion of the workbook, a child learns coping skills for better handling anger and begins to consider consequences for his or her decisions and behavior. The parent’s section of the workbook contains many suggestions and resource ideas for helping their children learn coping skills, resulting in better anger management. Since these concepts have application to the classroom as well as the home environment, the workbook can serve as a resource to parents, teachers, and other personnel working with children in educational settings.
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Grace Based Parenting
$18.99Add to cartParents in our post-modern world tend to be committed to but anxious about their child-rearing responsibilities. They’ve tried the countless parenting books on the market, but many of these are strident, fear-based books that loving parents instinctively reject, while still searching for direction.
Now Dr. Tim Kimmel, founder of Family Matters ministries, offers a refreshing new look at parenting. Rejecting rigid rules and checklists that don’t work, Dr. Kimmel recommends a parenting style that mirrors God’s love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator for behavior. As we embrace the grace God offers, we begin to give it-creating a solid foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children.
Releasing in an affordable trade paper edition, this revolutionary book presents a whole new way to nurture a healthy family.
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They Call Me Dad
$14.99Add to cartDeveloped after years of research by the author of The 7 Secrets of Effective Fathers, this powerful guide explores parental role-modeling from a biblical worldview. Encouraging dads to teach their children to “out-think, out-live, and out-love the world,” Dr. Canfield shares invaluable spiritual insight from his extensive ministry. Features interactive and profiling tools.
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Mommy Guilt : Learn To Worry Less Focus On What Matters Most And Raise Happ
$17.99Add to cartParents today try too hard to be superhuman, often sacrificing their own well-being — and relationships with friends, family, even their spouses — to meet the ever-increasing demands of their children’s lives. Of course, such efforts inevitably fall short, and parents blame themselves. Mommy Guilt encourages parents to let go of unobtainable (and ill-advised) goals in favor of parenting philosophies that concentrate on the whole family. This eye-opening book presents the results of an original, never-before-published nationwide survey of over 1,300 parents — 96% of whom reported they felt guilty about some aspect of parenting. The most common include yelling, family time, work choices, school, and sports. Mommy Guilt offers straightforward principles for handling these and many other common issues — as well as for dealing with everyday challenges that frequently add up to feelings of guilt. Through practical, tried-and-true tips, anecdotes, quizzes, and worksheets, Mommy Guilt illustrates how moms can fend off the guilt and focus on what really matters.
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How To Really Parent Your Children
$18.99Add to cartWith over thirty years of clinical psychiatric experience with children and their parents, Dr. Campbell knows how profoundly a parent can influence a child. By anticipating the needs of a child rather than reacting to his or her behaviors, parents develop a relational rather than adversarial family structure. Mothers and fathers will find tools aimed to help them build a healthy relationship with their child that meets all four basic emotional needs: to be nurtured in unconditional love, to be lovingly disciplined, to be trained in anger management, and to be protected from harmful influences. It is after these basic needs are met that a child will be able to understand and respond to spiritual matters. Combining practical advice with anecdotal examples, Campbell offers a purposeful, life-long approach to building happy, healthy, spiritual children
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Loving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You
$18.99Add to cartLoving Your Parents When They Can No Longer Love You helps you to navigate the challenging role of caregiver and alerts you to some difficult issues you may face including legal and financial decisions, resolving unfinished business, and much more. At the end of each chapter are “Questions For Consideration” to help you focus on both personal thoughts and practical considerations.
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Helping Your Kids Deal With Anger Fear And Sadness
$14.99Add to cartHarvest House Print On Demand Title
No parent likes to see their child struggle, especially with dark emotions like anger, fear, and depression. Family counselor and best-selling author Norm Wright addresses these emotional issues in a compassionate, family-friendly way that will help parents communicate more freely with their children. Included in this interactive parenting manual are conversational guidelines and learning activities for children that encourage them to work through these difficult emotions. Parents will gain keen insights into the cause of these intense moods and develop sound principles in dealing effectively with them. Biblically based and solution-oriented, this book is a must-have for parents, Sunday school teachers, ministers, and family counselors.
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Scripture Confessions For Dads
$4.01Add to cartThe Scripture Confessions Series connects the reader to the timeless passages in God’s Word that speaks to the issues of most concern to them. More than just a book of prayers, the reader will find personalized confessions that will arm them with the Word of God for life’s battles.
This unique collection of Scriptures is a must have for today’s busy schedules. Whether at work or home, readers can access Scripture Confessions and remind themselves of God’s faithful promises in all areas including healing, finances, protection, wisdom, and more!
