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Cómo Criar Hijos Felices Y Obedientes
Principios de la Palabra de Dios necesarios para instruir a los hijos. Citando la biblia, instruye sobre el comportamiento y las responsabilidades de los padres y cómo disciplinar a los niños.
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160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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December 20, 2018
This is not the best book on the subject, but I'm not really in a position to turn down parenting advice at this point. My two and a half year olds are craaaaaaaaazy.
I think I got this book off a list of Duggar recommendations. Frankly, discipline advice goes down a little easier coming from them, considering they've had the chance to test their theories out 19 times over. It sounded to me from the book like Roy Lessin only had two children, which isn't really a large enough sample size. If all I had were my oldest two, I'd probably feel like a rockstar. Perhaps it really is as easy as Lessin makes it sounds (and I'm doing something wrong), or perhaps he just stopped one child short of a nightmare.
In any case, his advice is solid. It's all the usual stuff - love your kids, be consistent with discipline, use "the rod" (and Lessin really means THE ROD - a ping pong paddle just won't do - this guy suggests you go pluck yourself off an ACTUAL STICK), disgruntled compliance is NOT obedience, be a good example, etc. It's basically "Shepherding a Child's Heart" in the context of 1978. The consistency is encouraging. God's Word doesn't change, so why should biblically based parenting advice? And I do appreciate the opportunity to read the exact same advice written from a variety of authors in different words over many decades.
If you're only going to read one, skip "How to be the Parents of Happy and Obedient Children." Read Elliot's "The Shaping of a Christian Family", "Shepherding a Child's Heart" or "Don't Make Me Count to Three" instead. But if you're looking to drown your feelings of utter helplessness in book after book about parenting your unhappy and disobedient children, throw this one in the stack.
I think I got this book off a list of Duggar recommendations. Frankly, discipline advice goes down a little easier coming from them, considering they've had the chance to test their theories out 19 times over. It sounded to me from the book like Roy Lessin only had two children, which isn't really a large enough sample size. If all I had were my oldest two, I'd probably feel like a rockstar. Perhaps it really is as easy as Lessin makes it sounds (and I'm doing something wrong), or perhaps he just stopped one child short of a nightmare.
In any case, his advice is solid. It's all the usual stuff - love your kids, be consistent with discipline, use "the rod" (and Lessin really means THE ROD - a ping pong paddle just won't do - this guy suggests you go pluck yourself off an ACTUAL STICK), disgruntled compliance is NOT obedience, be a good example, etc. It's basically "Shepherding a Child's Heart" in the context of 1978. The consistency is encouraging. God's Word doesn't change, so why should biblically based parenting advice? And I do appreciate the opportunity to read the exact same advice written from a variety of authors in different words over many decades.
If you're only going to read one, skip "How to be the Parents of Happy and Obedient Children." Read Elliot's "The Shaping of a Christian Family", "Shepherding a Child's Heart" or "Don't Make Me Count to Three" instead. But if you're looking to drown your feelings of utter helplessness in book after book about parenting your unhappy and disobedient children, throw this one in the stack.
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