Jim Burns
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Doing Life With Your Adult Children
$18.99Add to cartIf you have an adult child, you know that parenting doesn’t stop when a child reaches the age of eighteen. In many ways, it gets more complicated. Both your heart and your head are as involved as ever, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact.
In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, parenting expert Jim Burns helps you navigate the toughest and the most rewarding parts of parenting your grown kids. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to questions such as these:
-Is it OK to give advice to my grown child?
-What’s the difference between enabling and helping?
-What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home?
-What do I do when my child doesn’t seem to be maturing into adulthood?
-How do I relate to my grown child’s significant other?
-What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries?
-How can I support my grown children when I don’t support their values?Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.
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Understanding Your Teen
$17.00Add to cartPreface
How To Use This BookPart 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 TeenPart 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. SuicideConclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes AcknowledgmentsAdditional 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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Getting Ready For Marriage Workbook (Workbook)
$12.99Add to cartDelivered in nine potent sessions, each rooted in key biblical and relational truths, Jim Burns and Doug Fields craft a premarital model that equips participants to confront big issues prior to their wedding day. A thoughtful gift or family ministry resource, the workbook also includes an appendix for use as a counseling centerpiece. Topics include communication, finances, spirituality, and intimacy.
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Getting Ready For Marriage
$17.99Add to cartIn Getting Ready for Marriage, relationship experts Jim Burns and Doug Fields pour decades of experience into a fresh, current, and practical guide tailor-made for couples approaching marriage. Explorations of family history, communication styles, money matters, and sexual intimacy help couples define and prepare for the work and rewards of a healthy union. Easy to navigate and including meaningful exercises and conversation starters, this book is designed to guide relationships for the long haul. It will also appeal to pastors and marriage counselors.
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Educacion Sexual Sana Para Tus – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartTrusted family authority Jim Burns outlines a simple and practical guide for parents on how to develop in their children a healthy perspective regarding their bodies and sexuality. Much more than just the when and how of having “the talk”, this invaluable resource encourages building a “theology of healthy sexuality” through the introduction of age-appropriate dialog throughout a young person’s life.
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Purity Code : Gods Plan For Sex And Your Body (Reprinted)
$15.99Add to cartWritten with millennial preteens and their parents in mind, The Purity Code will help kids and their parents build a solid “theology of healthy sexuality” and instill godly values about sex, their bodies, and relationships. Approachable and conversational in tone, each chapter is easy to read in one sitting and will spur discussion between parents and their children. Rather than shy away from the tough questions, author Jim Burns addresses head-on issues facing twenty-first-century preteens. Parents of preteens will find this book a must-have for their home libraries.
