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When Parents Feel Like Failures: How Jesus Quiets Our Distress
For every parent who has ever laid awake reviewing the mistakes and missteps of their day, Lauren Whitman points them to Jesus, who quiets our distress with his love and forgiveness.
Parents often struggle with four deeply distressing fear, guilt, shame, and regret. Many parents feel resigned to the fact that these emotions will always just be a part of our experience. But Lauren Whitman, a counselor and mother, helps parents see Jesus’s compassion and receive the comfort he offers them in their distress.
While many resources help parents grow in how they parent, few help parents with addressing feelings about unrealistic expectations, perceived mistakes, and supposed failings. When Parents Feel Like Failures is an encouraging, grace-centered book that helps us see ourselves and the Lord more accurately.Learn that God’s love has the power to quiet the internal churn of hard feelings that parents experience.Helps parents realistically reflect and evaluate themselves and the job they are doing in a favorable light.Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
Parents often struggle with four deeply distressing fear, guilt, shame, and regret. Many parents feel resigned to the fact that these emotions will always just be a part of our experience. But Lauren Whitman, a counselor and mother, helps parents see Jesus’s compassion and receive the comfort he offers them in their distress.
While many resources help parents grow in how they parent, few help parents with addressing feelings about unrealistic expectations, perceived mistakes, and supposed failings. When Parents Feel Like Failures is an encouraging, grace-centered book that helps us see ourselves and the Lord more accurately.Learn that God’s love has the power to quiet the internal churn of hard feelings that parents experience.Helps parents realistically reflect and evaluate themselves and the job they are doing in a favorable light.Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press’s popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
- GenresParentingCounselling
112 pages, Paperback
Published September 23, 2024
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About the author
Lauren Whitman
14 books6 followersLauren Whitman, MA, is a staff counselor at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF), where she has served for a decade. She also serves as the developmental editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling and is the author of A Painful Past: Healing and Moving Forward and A Biblical Counseling Process. Whitman, her husband, and their two children make their home in the Philadelphia area.
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September 18, 2024
Lauren Whitman is a wise and gracious counselor who knows Scripture, the noisy hearts of stressed parents, and how to gently connect the two in a way that leads us to rest in the satisfying love of Jesus. My heart was helped by this book, and I enthusiastically recommend it.
May 18, 2025
Balm for the weary parent. The author goes through 4 common struggles of the parent: Fear, guilt, shame and regret and how Jesus calms these with his love. Booklet sized with questions for reflection.
November 23, 2024
Very practical and Biblical. Encouraging read for parents of any age.
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