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Parenting

  • Before I Was Born

    $10.99

    Before I Was Born emphasizes the creational goodness of our bodies, our existence as men and women, and our sexual organs. This book introduces new topics as well, including the growth and change that occur as boys and girls become men and women. It includes a tactful but direct explanation of sexual intercourse between a husband and wife.

    Before I Was Born explains in age-appropriate language the basic nature of sexual intercourse between a husband and wife and discusses conception, fetal development, childbirth, and breastfeeding. For children ages 5 to 8.

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  • Whats The Big Deal

    $14.99

    One Million Copies Sold in Series!
    Christian Book Award: ECPA Medallion of Excellence

    Your kids know about sex. But what they’ve gathered from TV, other kids, or the internet doesn’t tell them everything or answer all of their questions. What’s the Big Deal? was written to help parents provide the answers to their 8-to-12-year-olds. This book explains the basic facts about sex and related issues such as:
    Why God made adults so that they want to have sex
    What God actually says in the Bible about sex and why it’s designed for marriage
    The amazing changes ahead of you during puberty
    How to respond when you feel sexual pressure from friends, TV shows, movies, and magazines

    Your kids can read this book with you so you can discuss it together. This provides them the safe space to ask hard questions they might find embarrassing. The book will help kids understand what a beautiful and exciting gift from God sexuality is meant to be.

    Now revised and updated with:
    Separate chapters on puberty for boys and girls
    A chapter on the dangers of pornography

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  • How And When To Tell Your Kids About Sex

    $19.99

    A vital tool for building the kind of Christian character in kids that will enable them to stand on their own and make the right decisions, this guide offers parents a lifelong approach to shaping their children’s sexual character.

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  • Sharing Love Abundantly In Special Needs Families

    $15.99

    Dr. Gary Chapman and respected author, Jolene Philo, join forces to talk to parents of kids with disabilities about how the 5 Love Languages can help their marriage and family life. If you have children with special needs, your challenges are very different than most families. Here’s help for your specific needs. Look for its release in August 2019 or pre-order now.

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  • Story Of Me

    $10.99

    This book is designed to help parents answer difficult or embarrassing questions about sex comfortably and truthfully (in age appropriate terms), and to encourage healthy communication between you and your child.

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  • Single Parent : Confident And Successful

    $18.00

    Whether you became a single parent through divorce, death, adoption, or some other situation, you’ve probably wondered what the future holds for you and your children. Will you be able to provide the emotional, financial, and spiritual support your family needs?

    The Single Parent will encourage you in your journey and help avert problems before they arise. It is filled with wise counsel, biblical truth, and real-life stories–the author’s own as well as those of the many single moms and dads who have come across her path through the years. It will help you bolster your abilities in such areas as
    – improving your child’s behavior
    – negotiating boundaries
    – graciously seeking and accepting help from others
    – trusting God in the process

    God cares for the single parent and will provide for you and your children. Let this book give you the tools you need as you walk with him in this journey.

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  • Almost Holy Mama

    $16.99

    With the honesty of a close friend, the hilarity of a late-night comic, and the humility of a mom up to her eyeballs in diapers and dishes, Courtney Ellis invites us on a journey to draw closer God amidst the joyful, mundane, exhausting days of young parenthood. Probing ancient Christian practices for renewal, Almost Holy Mama chronicles one mom’s quest to discover an answer to her most pressing question: can God use the crucible of parenthood to grow us in virtue?

    Instead of adding more tasks, Almost Holy Mama will help you integrate your spiritual practices into your daily life. From studying Scripture in the shower to listening in prayer at the foot of Laundry Mountain to being forced into the discipline of stillness by a rough pregnancy, Ellis finds that meeting God in sacred disciplines can breathe new life into one of life s most joy-filled and trying seasons.

    Perfect for: Parents, Gifts for expecting parents, Single mother/father groups, Foster parents and guardians, Pastors and counselors, and more.

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  • Parenting By Faith

    $16.99

    SKU (ISBN): 9781628627817ISBN10: 1628627816Patricia BattenBinding: Trade PaperPublished: June 2019Publisher: Aspire Press – Hendrickson Publishing Group

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  • Embracing The Journey

    $26.00

    A sympathetic, compassionate, and inspiring guide for parents, from the founders of one of the first Christian ministries for parents of LGBTQ children.

    Greg and Lynn McDonald had never interacted with members of the LGBTQ community until they discovered that their son was gay-and without resources or support, they had no idea how to handle this discovery. At first they tried to “fix” him, to no avail. But even in the earliest days of their journey, the McDonalds clung to two absolutes: they would love God, and they would love their son.

    This book follows the McDonald family’s journey over the next twenty years, from a place of grief to a place of gratitude and acceptance that led the McDonalds’ to start one of the first Christian ministries for parents of LGBTQ children. Based on their experience from counseling and coaching hundreds of struggling Christian parents, they offer tools for understanding your own emotional patterns and spiritual challenges. They also help you experience a deeper relationship with God while handling difficult or unexpected situations that are out of your control. You will discover tested principles, patterns, and spiritual lessons that can change the way we all see our families, and help Christians at large think though Christ-like ways to respond to the LGBTQ community.

    Written in an unvarnished, honest, reassuring, and relatable voice, this is a practical guide for parents and a roadmap to learning to love God, the people He created, and the church, even when they seem to be at odds.

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  • Terrific Kids : Practical Principles For Raising Kids With A Strong Moral C

    $11.99

    Do you ever wonder, “Am I really ready to be a parent?” or “Who will my child grow up to be?” Maybe you’ve even doubted that you will be a good parent to your children?

    Parenting is not easy. There is no simple “follow this rule” technique. No child is born with a manual that answers every parent’s question about how to raise them. But it is helpful to hear what has worked for other parents.

    In Terrific Kids, you will find some simple insights and anecdotes from one parent to another. This book offers some guidance as you make your way through the complex world of parenting. It does not decree rules that are written in stone, but suggests tools that can be adapted to fit each child’s needs and the circumstances of the moment.

    Some of the topics touched on in this book include:
    *The importance of chores
    *The benefit of family outings
    *How to encourage good hygiene
    *What part the grandparents play in the raising of children
    *Dealing with our own childhood pain and how it affects our parenting

    It’s time to learn about raising truly Terrific Kids!

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  • Gender : A Conversation Guide For Parents And Pastors

    $6.99

    PART 1:
    Foundation 1: Preschool And Young Children
    Foundation 2: Elementary (5-10)
    Foundation 3: Middle School (11-13)
    Foundation 4: Teens And Beyond (14+)
    PART 2:
    Toolbox Of Resources For Users
    Glossary

    Additional Info
    The world around us is changing quickly, and it’s difficult to keep up with the debates about some of life’s most important issues. Whether you are a parent, mentor, pastor, or friend, this book will help you get clarity in a world spinning in confusion.

    This book seeks to help families teach the Bible’s view clearly and consistently throughout a child’s life. It contains two major sections. Part one focuses on what is most critical during three major foundations, or stages, in a child’s life. Part two is a toolbox of resources to help you better understand and articulate various topics surrounding gender.

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  • Parents Guide To Understanding Your Childrens Dreams And Nightmares

    $16.99

    A child with regular nightmares can easily be dismissed by professionals as just overly imaginative or too sensitive. But for any parent at their wits’ end over their child’s suffering from dreams and nightmares, a deeper understanding is needed. Is it possible that a spiritual dimension is at play? //
    A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Dreams and Nightmares by Recie Saunders offers help to concerned parents. With a clear, easy-to-read style, it is an invaluable resource for all parents who want to help their kids know whether a dream is from God, interpret their nightmares, find security in God’s control, and hear God’s voice in the night season as well as the day.

    Drawing on his extensive research on the prophetic, visions, and dreams, Recie also peppers this practical book with stories about his own kids and their dreams. He differentiates between dreams and visions, provides creative ideas for encouraging kids’ faith, explains lucid dreaming, and lists the most common images and symbols that come through dreams. Throughout this approachable book is Recie’s tender, fatherly passion that the kingdom of heaven belongs to the “little children.” Includes dream journal, descriptions of twenty common dreams, and a dream symbol dictionary.

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  • Understanding Your Teen

    $18.99

    Preface
    How To Use This Book

    Part One: Parenting Teens To Become Responsible Adults
    1. Understanding Your Teenager
    2. Learning The Developmental Stages Of Adolescence
    3. Shaping Behavior Without Crushing Character
    4. Energizing Your Teen’s Spiritual Life
    5. Creating A Media-Safe Home
    6. Teaching Healthy Sexuality
    7. Ending The Homework Hassle While Preparing For College
    8. Keeping The Communication Lines Open
    9. The Changing Culture
    10. Your Marriage As You Raise Your Teen
    11. Dealing With A Troubled Teen

    Part Two: Common Teen Issues And What Parents Can Do
    12. Bullying And Cyberbullying
    13. Tragedy
    14. Dating Violence
    15. Depression
    16. Dinnertime
    17. Driving
    18. Drug And Alcohol Use And Abuse
    19. Eating Disorders
    20. Overweight And Obesity
    21. Self-Injury
    22. Sexual Abuse
    23. Sleep
    24. Suicide

    Conclusion
    Acknowledgments
    Notes Acknowledgments

    Additional Info
    Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today’s cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever.

    But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens to become responsible adults, parents need to help them grow through developmental changes to attain a healthy self-identity, establish good relationships, make wise decisions, and grow in their relationship with God. Burns shows how parents can shape behavior and character, navigate social media challenges, and communicate and resolve conflict healthily. He also tackles the realities of our day, including cyberbullying, dating violence, self-injury, depression, and much more.

    Whether you’re facing serious troubles or need simple tips for a better family life, this book offers help and hope.

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  • Discipline That Connects With Your Childs Heart (Reprinted)

    $18.99

    A Powerful Approach to Bringing God’s Grace to Kids
    Did you know that the way we deal (or don’t deal) with our kids’ misbehavior shapes their beliefs about themselves, the world, and God? Therefore it’s vital to connect with their hearts–not just their minds–amid the daily behavior battles. With warmth and grace, Jim and Lynne Jackson, founders of Connected Families, offer four tried-and-true keys to handling any behavioral issues with love, truth, and authority. You will learn practical ways to communicate messages of grace and truth, how to discipline in a way that motivates your child, and how to keep your relationship strong, not antagonistic. Discipline is more than just a short-term attempt to modify your child’s actions–it’s a long-term investment to help them build faith, wisdom, and character for life. When you discover a better path to discipline, you’ll find a more well-behaved–and well-believed–kid.

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  • Raising Your Children For Christ

    $19.00

    Children are gifts from the Lord. In this practical guide to parenting, Andrew Murray shows the essential qualities of being a parent who loves the Lord. He also shows you how to build your family in the Lord, alleviate stressful family situations, direct your children’s steps, and see the needs of your family met. Christians desire that their children grow up and live as followers of Christ. In this book, you will find biblical advice and God’s promises on how you can shape and mold the lives of your children for eternity.

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  • No More Perfect Kids

    $14.99

    Love the kids you have, not the ones you wish you had.

    Mom and dad, your kids are created in God’s image, not your own. Jill Savage and Kathy Koch will guide you in truly appreciating your kids. They will teach you how to study and become an expert on your children, because you cannot fully embrace them until you truly know them.

    Written in a passionate, candid, and personal tone, the authors will instill within you hope and contentment. You’ll be inspired to apply the practical, realistic, and relevant ideas and tactics Jill and Kathy share.

    Special needs kids will also be addressed in the book.

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  • Power Of Praying For Your Adult Children Book Of Prayers

    $6.99

    Stormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.

    Just because your children are grown up doesn’t mean they don’t need your prayers. In some ways they need them more than ever.

    Stormie offers you a gathering of heartfelt prayers from one of her most popular books, The Power of Praying(R) for Your Adult Children. This little-but-powerful book of prayer and Scripture is ideally sized for mothers or fathers to pull from purse or pocket throughout the day for quick and meaningful talks with God about their grown children’s relationships, faith, finances, struggles, direction, and parenting.

    This compact resource unveils the power of prayer to protect, nurture, and guide. It offers parents the comfort, reassurance, and wisdom of God’s promises for them and their adult child’s life and future.

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  • Power Of A Praying Parent

    $17.99

    Stormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.

    After 20 years of raising her son and daughter alongside her husband, Michael, Stormie looks back at the trials and joys of parenting and the power in praying for her children. In these easy-to-read chapters, Stormie shares from personal experience as to how parents can pray for their kids’
    *safety
    *character development
    *adolescence
    *peer pressure
    *school experiences
    *friends
    *relationship with God

    This resource will help you to be an amazing praying parent whether your kids are three or thirty-three.

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  • Power Of Praying For Your Adult Children

    $17.99

    Stormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying(R) series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.

    In this important follow-up to The Power of a Praying(R) Parent (2 million copies sold), Stormie addresses areas of concern you may have for your grown children and shares how to lift them up to God. With stories from other parents and insight gleaned from personal experience, Stormie helps you pray with the power of God’s Word over your adult children and their:
    *career choices and sense of purpose
    *marriages and other vital relationships
    *parenting skills and leadership
    *struggles, addictions, or emotional trials
    *faith commitment and prayer life

    Perhaps you are watching your grown children step out into the world and wishing you could do more to support them while giving them the freedom they crave. You can. It doesn’t matter how young or old they are, you can rest in the power of God working through your prayers.

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  • Parenting : Steps For Successful Parenting

    $5.99

    Kids are a lot like kites-struggling to become airborne, yet need the stability of the string. A kite is not designed to be possessively protected inside the home. Though separation is painful, God designed your role as a parent to prepare your kite” for flight. As the fragile frame dives again and again, don’t be emotionally torn by the changing winds. Keep running with your child, releasing more and more string into the Lord’s sovereign hands.

    June Hunt gives practical advice and Biblical wisdom on how to be a great parent. Did you know,

    *God ordained roles for mothers and fathers
    *The different parenting styles that lead to problems
    *The proper balance between love and limits
    *The process of “letting go” and allowing your child to soar
    *The hope God has for hurting parents

    Enjoy a Biblical checklist for parenting that includes bullet points like:
    *Regard your children
    *Approach parenting goals and actions with your spouse
    *Take every opportunity to teach spiritual truths
    *How to effectively discipline your children
    *And much more

    The role of a father and the role of a mother are different. You child is looking to each spouse for different needs and acknowledgements. Learn what they are and how you can be proactive in the role that the Lord has given to you. Your child is a gift from God. The most compelling behavior you can model before your child is to reflect the character of Christ. It’s never too late to begin taking steps toward godly parenting.

    This mini-book is a quick overview and is easy-to-understand. It focuses on the key issues and is perfect for the busy person who needs instant advice.

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  • Nonprescription Drugs In Pregnancy

    $19.95

    A Smart Start Press Title

    Many women of child-bearing age buy over-the-counter medications for a variety of disorders, such as seasonal allergies, colds, headaches, and others. Whether planning their pregnancy or already pregnant, they want to know if these nonprescription drugs are safe for unborn babies. All nonprescription drugs contain one or more active ingredients that treat the patient’s symptoms and are actually drugs themselves. Twenty to thirty years ago, many of these active ingredients were FDA-approved prescription drugs. At the time, those prescription drugs were assigned a Pregnancy Risk Category: A, B, C, D, or X. Although some of these drugs switched from prescription to nonprescription status, meaning they could be sold over-the-counter, their Pregnancy Risk Categories still applied. This unique book contains the FDA’s Pregnancy Risk Categories for the active ingredients in five hundred nonprescription drugs, and includes a procedure for locating risk categories for any drug that isn’t in the book.

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  • Legacy Path : Discover Intentional Spiritual Parenting

    $11.99

    Every path has a destination. Brian Haynes wants to take parents down the path of intentional spiritual parenting. The destination is a new generation of children emerging as adults who know how to love God and love people. This new generation will also know how to equip their own children to do the same. The Legacy Path is a book meant to change the culture by moving our children and grandchildren toward life God s way instead of life portrayed as right in the eyes of the world. The reader will find many practical steps explained allowing the destination to be reached.

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  • Faith Conversations For Family

    $20.00

    Most Christian parents know that the best way to leave a God-honoring legacy to their family is to nurture their children’s faith . . . but many don’t know where to start! This new resource from Jim Burns, founder of HomeWord, will equip parents to start important conversations with their kids–family time with an eternal impact. Faith Conversations for Families makes it easy to invite God into quality family time. Each section outlines an easy-to-follow dialogue, which is flexible for children of different age groups. In addition, suggested activities and exercises make spiritual formation adaptable for kids with varying learning styles. The six family-friendly topics included in this book are: Who Is Jesus and Why It Matters: Help parents talk with their kids about why His life, death, and resurrection are so important.What Prayer Is All About: Parents can introduce vibrant conversation with God into their family’s time together.What It Means to Be Christian: Parents can lead their kids toward a faith commitment and spiritual growth, through open communication and exciting biblical expression.A Strong Family: Parents can teach, guide, and strengthen healthy bonds within the family.Loving and Serving Others: Parents can talk with their children about servant leadership and self-sacrifice and be challenged to serve in and outside of their home.Building Morals and Values: Parents can help their kids discern and navigate cultural influences that run contrary to a biblical worldview.In the heart of every Christian parent is a desire to help their children grow spiritually. Faith Conversations for Families helps parents make that desire a beautiful reality.

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  • Wrestling With An Angel

    $9.99

    It sounded at first like something out of an old horror movie. I thought maybe someone was just playing around, but then I heard it again and again, a loud piercing cry, and less like Hollywood every time. The windows were down in my police cruiser on that warm fall day, but I still couldn’t tell where the sounds came from. I began looking around for the unlikely sight of someone being disemboweled in a mall parking lot on a Saturday afternoon. Seeing nothing, and still hearing the screams, I called in a “disturbance.’ Around the next corner I found the source of the commotion. So begins Greg Lucas’ captivating account of life as a husband, a police officer, and Jake’s dad. Jake Lucas, the first of four children, lives with severe physical and mental challenges. Caring for him each day is an ordeal few of us can imagine, and this story of Jake’s first 17 years is not one you will soon forget. But the remarkable thing is how the whole narrative is saturated with wonder at the grace and goodness of God, who brings hope and promise through his Son into the darkest of circumstances. In this book, we see that Jake’s problems are our problems, only bigger, and the challenges of caring for him carry profound lessons about God’s care for us. Wrestling with an Angel is about tragedy and laughter and pain and joy. It is about faith and grace and endurance and God’s unfailing, loving wisdom daily being worked out in each of our lives, whatever the nature or extent of our difficulties. Here is a book that may explain faith to you in ways you never quite grasped, through a life few of us can relate to. When it is all done, we come away better able to live as Christ calls us to live.

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  • Power Of Blessing Your Children

    $9.99

    In this practical and inspiring book, well-known nutritionist, teacher, speaker, and author Mary Ruth Swope provides detailed instructions on how to minister powerful blessings from God to our children, grandchildren, and other loved ones. Dr. Swope discusses specific daily blessings to pray, each one accompanied by biblical promises, including: ” Safety-to sleep in peace ” Courage-to face our fears ” Good health-to experience healing ” Wisdom-to live a life of faith ” Prosperity-to bless our children and others ” Joy and Strength-in body, soul, and spirit From the testimonies included, you will find many examples of those who have been completely changed with simple yet powerful blessings given in person, over the phone, or even by mail. Release blessings upon those you love-and witness powerful results!

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  • Rookie Dad : Thoughts On First Time Fatherhood

    $18.99

    In a series of personal literary essays, David Jacobson reflects humorously and heartbreakingly on the joys and fears of first-time fatherhood from his wife’s pregnancy to his son’s first birthday.

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  • Walking The Baby Beat

    $19.95

    A Smart Start Press Title

    D. Gary Benfield, M.D., veteran neonatologist and newspaper columnist, answers hundreds of healthcare questions in this easy-to-read book, covering everything from planning a pregnancy to childbirth and teen health concerns. Revised and updated from The Baby Beat, Dr. Benfield’s weekly newspaper column, Walking the Baby Beat is easy-to-use. Topics are arranged chronologically, related questions are grouped together under each topic, and each question is listed in the table of contents. As an added bonus, Walking the Baby Beat also includes a My Heroes section, featuring articles like The Newborn APGAR Score: Just one of Dr. Virginia Apgar’s Many Achievements, The Hidden Talent of Dr. Spock, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Rescued at Birth, and many more. This valuable reference is designed for future parents, expecting parents, rookie parents, grandparents, and even veteran parents and their older children.

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  • Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Expanded)

    $24.99

    Description: Parents need to teach their teens how to make decisions responsibly–and do so without going crazy or damaging the relationship. This book empowers parents with the skills and tools necessary to set limits, teach important skills, and encourage decision-making in their teenagers. Indexed for easy reference.

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