Kid CEO: How to Keep Your Children from Running Your Life

by Ed Young, Rick Warren (Contributor), Cliff McNeely (Contributor)

Ed Young is the senior pastor of Fellowship Church, which has over 18,000 members and has been featured on Fox News, CBS's Early Morning Show, and Good Morning America, as well as in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, BusinessWeek, and Washington Times, among other major publications.
- In 10/03, Ed Young's weekly TV show, Creative Connection, debuted at #17 on the Trinity Broadcast Network; nine weeks later it was ranked at #4. It is also broadcast on the cable Daystar Network and The Church Channel. Young's daily radio broadcast of the same name is heard in 15 major markets, including satellite radio and OnePlace.com. In conjunction with these shows, he has launched a Creative Connection Web site on which he will promote this title.
- KID CEO will be aggressively promoted on the Fellowship Church Web site, which averages 10.1 million hits per month.
- Ed Young and his wife have been happily married for over 20 years and have four children.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Family, Relationships

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Ed Young is the founding pastor of Fellowship Church and a New York Times bestselling author. Ed and his wife Lisa have been married for over 40 years and have four children, one who is in Heaven. Fellowship Church is known for creatively and boldly communicating the Bible and equipping people for the challenges of everyday life.



Through his leadership as founding and Lead Pastor of Fellowship Church, the church has been consistently ranked as one of the most attended churches in North America over the past decade. Since 1990, Fellowship has grown from 30 families to multiple campuses in Dallas/Fort Worth (TX) and an online campus as well.



With a passion to equip and train leaders in the church, Ed began C3 Global, CreativePastors.com and the Creative Church Conference (C3) in order to provide resources to thousands of pastors and leaders around the world.



Ed has also had the opportunity to publish several books on the topics of leadership, Christian living, marriage and parenting.

Ed is a New York Times best-selling author and his books include: Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse. His other books include: The Marriage Mirror; The Creative Leader; and Outrageous, Contagious Joy, The Fear Virus.

Reviews

[Chrissy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book unfortunately is not as advertised. It is a Christian book for working on your marriage, not for working with your children. The author states that if you don't have a happy marriage, you run into these "Kid CEO" issues. I have an extremely happy marriage, and we still have issues with strong-willed children. Also, he states that the book is for all types of families.... Not at all. If I was a single parent, I would be shamed and offended after reading this book, this book is written for married Christian couples. I find at times the author rambles and rambles, when I was half-way through the book I was wondering when the book was actually going to start? I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for help with disciplining your children, this is a marriage workshop book.

[Becky Giovagnoni · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was all fluff. It didn't say anything new. The thing that was most annoying about it is that the book is chalk full of cliches, cute little sayings and acronyms. NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT! It was nauseating.

I had an unsettled feeling about the book while I was reading it, but when I was almost done, a friend posted this article saying that Ed Young is considering doing a Kardashian-type reality show with his family. And any little respect I had for him was suddenly gone.

The only reason I finished the book was so it would count towards my reading goal.

[NoOnesNME · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a must read for parents to be, and families that are waiting to get on the TV show SuperNanny. This is a very important topic and it's addressed here from a very biblical perspective. My kids aren't even two years old yet, and already I've seen them testing the limits of how much they can get away with. It certainly addresses how much of a challenge it is to keep the parents in control.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was given to us at Lydia's dedication. Nothing earth shattering but good principles to follow-marriage is important, don't overschedule kids, consistent child-specific discipline is key. Priorities-God, marriage, kids.

[Gwen]

So far, I have found this book to be dead on. It shows the authority structure that is supposed to be in families and how to start or restore it. Very good book!!

[Jaime Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

A must read for anyone that has kids!

[Terry Moffitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

All parents should read this one.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED the ideas in this book! They are not easy to incorporate but I do believe that they are super important to maintaining a happy marriage and therefore a happy family and kids!

[Shelby · Rating 1 out of 5]

i couldn't finish it....