The Parenting Book

by Nicky Lee

Parenting is a higher calling that the pursuit of our own happiness. It carries a big cost. But it can also bring the highest of rewards; the depth of love a parent feels and the privilege of knowing that we have helped shape a life!

The Parenting Book has practical advice for parents of children from birth to 18 years.

How can we develop a family identity?
How can we meet our children's deepest needs?
How and where do we set the boundaries?
How do we pass on values to our children that will help them for life?

Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting.

Full of valuable advice and practical tips, The Parenting Book is a resource for parents to come back to again and again. Nominated for the Christianity Magazine Book of the Year Award.

"This is one of the best parenting resources I have seen. It is bursting with wise practical parenting insights. We owe it to our children to be the best parents we can be!" Author, J John

"A sensitive, practical book that provides real insight into how to be a good parent - a role we all try to fulfill as best we can."
International speaker and author, Bear Grylls

" The Parenting Book is practical and full of wise advice. I believe it will help give parents a vital ingredient in the task of bringing up children - confidence! It's just what parents need today." Care for the Family Founder, Rob Parsons

Authors Nicky and Sila Lee have had 30+ years of parenting experience bringing up their daughter and three sons. They have a vital, worldwide marriage and parenting conference ministry and are on staff of Holy Trinity Brompton Church, London. They are best selling authors of The Marriage Book, and producers of the Marriage and Marriage Preparation Courses as well as the Parenting Children and Parenting Teenagers Courses - all used worldwide.

Genres: Parenting, Christian, Family, Faith, Nonfiction

674 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2009

Reviews

[Mina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book should be called the practical parenting book. Here Nicky and Sila draw on their experience of raising 4 healthy children into adulthood. The couple conduct a parenting course as well. The book is full of practical advice on a broad spectrum of challenges that face every parent. Also it has some practical reflection points.
The book talks about child rearing from the birth to adulthood and how parents go with our children on a journey. Although The book articulates that every family goes through their interactions differently but it gives guidelines along the path on pitfalls to avoid and opportunities to latch on.

I really enjoyed that book, it broadened my knowledge and definitely impacted my relationship with my own children. I am thankful for God, Niky and Sila for sharing their experience so we learn.

[Esther · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm used to reading parenting books with scientific references, so this book has been unexpectedly good. It contains a lot of down-to-earth real life examples of parenting situations, which were extremely similar to situations I encounter with my family on an everyday basis. I would recommend it to all parents and particularly those with a Christian background.

[Robin Peake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical. Sound. Reassuring to know we're not alone.
Genuinely helpful to have something like this to help me stop, evaluate and improve how I parent

[Iain Hamill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sound advice, now for the hard part...

[Lynda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read, enjoyable and endifying.

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good brief insight into understanding how and what children of different age group think. Practical steps on dealing with children of different age group biblically.