Conscientious parents who long to bring their children up as good Christians and good citizens face an uphill battle. In a culture of rampant narcissism and moral anarchy, righteous living isn't easy and it isn't popular. But positive cultural transformation happens quietly, one life at a time, and that is good news for parents. In this hopeful book, world-renowned researcher George Barna and nationally respected counselor Jimmy Myers offer parents a plan of action to raise healthy, godly children in a morally bankrupt culture. If the parents of this generation want to see their children grow up with their faith and consciences intact, they cannot afford to simply react, making it up as they go along. They must approach their responsibilities to parent their children with intentionality and consistency. This eye-opening book helps them do just that.

GREATER IS HE THAT LIVES IN YOUR CHILD. Move from fear-based parenting to faith-based parenting so that you can fearlessly raise your children to pursue God and to be light in the darkness around them. Is fear preventing you from releasing your children to fulfill God's purpose? No one can deny that raising children in our day and age is a scary proposition. One look at the statistics regarding abortion, drug addiction, gender confusion, suicide, school shootings, and more makes it clear that sin and darkness abound. But we must not let fear and our resulting tendency to shelter our children prevent them from fulfilling their God-given destiny to be salt, light, and love in the world. Fearless Parenting will help parents do the following: Understand their child's God-given purpose Learn ways to teach their children about God's plans for their lives Fearlessly release their children so they can fulfill their most important assignment ever: to be salt, light, and love to the hurting world around them Psalm 127:4 tells us, "Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth." It doesn't say "like arrows in a quiver," because arrows aren't meant to remain inactive; they are meant to be aimed at a target and released to hit their mark If our children have confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior of their lives, then we must believe that greater is He that is in them than the evil that is in the world and fearlessly release them to play their part in defeating it. It's time for Christian parents to start believing what God's Word says about our children: greater is He that lives in them than he that is in the world. Also Available in Spanish ISBN-13: 978-1-62999-275-4 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-62999-2761

Arguing? Complaining? Nagging? Bargaining? Giving up? Bending rules? Begging? You need this book. In our most critical job, we often find ourselves in loops of negativity when it comes to parenting our intensely wonderful, but often challenging, children. Using the three stands of Howard Glasser's Nurtured Heart Approach(r), Tammy (Small) Fisher tackles common parenting dilemmas with the lens focused on children's good choices, empowering parents to let go of ineffective habits of interaction and rediscover their own gifts and those of their children.

For many, parenting has become a 24/7 fearfest in which there is a tendency to abdicate to experts the raising of children. But, it doesn't have to be. What is fearless parenting? This book provides the support, motivation and encouragement parents need to raise confident, purposeful children in strong, nurturing families.

Parents want to be the best person they can for their children, but much of the time they may feel like giraffes on ice--clumsy, unprepared, and in imminent danger of going down. The good news is, our children don't need perfect parents. They need authentic, fully-hearted, relationally engaged parents who can mess up and move on more than parents who always get it right. In this freeing book, respected therapists and bestselling authors Stephen James and Chip Dodd invite parents to let go of perfectionism and micromanaging as they learn to parent from a place of emotional honesty and intimacy. Through their clinical experience and relatable true stories, they show parents that raising children to become capable, loving, and wise-hearted adults is far more about accepting our flaws than projecting an impossible standard to our children that we already know we can't live up to. Parents will learn how to resolve issues from their own childhoods, tune into their feelings and the emotions of their children, and be present with their families through both the best and worst of circumstances.

This book looks at what it feels like to be an autistic parent, offering valuable insights, knowledge and wisdom on parenting autistic and non-autistic children. Three mothers reflect on their experiences of growing up as undiagnosed autistics, venturing into and embracing motherhood, and connecting with their children in a unique and powerful way. They offer advice on overcoming the challenges of parenting when you are autistic, such as socialising with other parents or sensory issues that come with excessive touch. Reflecting on their own experiences, they also emphasize the positives of being an autistic parent to an autistic child, such as understanding of why their child is struggling or the open-mindedness that can come from not being constrained by societal norms. They also explain how out-of-the-box thinking leads to creative parenting of non-autistic children, forming strong and loving bonds. Full of wit and warm advice, this book empowers autistic parents and reassures them that autism is a strength in raising their children with love, knowledge and experience, while also giving non-autistic parents and professionals a fresh perspective on helping autistic children to thrive.

This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent, professional, and policymaker wonders about. Parenting is a perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to" parenting books, and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However, almost none of these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting, and includes historical considerations of the topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of classical and modern research, and forecasts of future directions of theory and research. Together, the five volumes in the Handbook cover Children and Parenting, the Biology and Ecology of Parenting, Being and Becoming a Parent, Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting. Volume 3, Being and Becoming a Parent, considers a large cast of characters responsible for parenting, each with her or his own customs and agenda, and examines what the psychological characteristics and social interests of those individuals reveal about what parenting is. Chapters in Part I, on The Parent, show just how rich and multifaceted is the constellation of children’s caregivers. Considered first are family systems and then successively mothers and fathers, coparenting and gatekeeping between parents, adolescent parenting, grandparenting, and single parenthood, divorced and remarried parenting, lesbian and gay parents and, finally, sibling caregivers and nonparental caregiving. Parenting also draws on transient and enduring physical, personality, and intellectual characteristics of the individual. The chapters in Part II, on Becoming and Being a Parent, consider the intergenerational transmission of parenting, parenting and contemporary reproductive technologies, the transition to parenthood, and stages of parental development, and then chapters turn to parents' well-being, emotions, self-efficacy, cognitions, and attributions as well as socialization, personality in parenting, and psychoanalytic theory. These features of parents serve many functions: they generate and shape parental practices, mediate the effectiveness of parenting, and help to organize parenting.