Free to Parent: Escape Parenting Traps and Liberate Your Child's Spirit

by Ellen M. Schuknecht, Erin M MacPherson

Do you feel trapped as a parent—weighted down by parenting advice and discipline strategies that do little to help you nurture your child’s soul or grow your kid's heart? Many parents do! After spending years serving parents as educators, counselors, and authors, Ellen Schuknecht and Erin MacPherson realized that maybe—just maybe—parents can escape the trap of lifeless, rules-driven parenting to joyfully grow and nurture their children’s hearts by teaching their kids to truly desire what is right instead of just follow a list of rules to avoid consequences. By pursuing true heart-to-heart connection over parental control and rules and letting go of the expected discipline solutions to instead focus on growth, forgiveness, and relationships, parents allowing joy and hope to nurture their children’s spirits.Sounds good, doesn't it? Through simple strategies and practical advice, Ellen and Erin show you how to replace control with connection, replace complacency with growth, replace fear with faith, and replace hopelessness with the hope that can only come from the God of love.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

130 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2014

Reviews

[Amanda]

It was a really good read. I thought it was full of information and gave good ideas for Christian parents. I would recommend it!

[Stephanie Sheaffer]

Easy-breezy read with important principles to ponder and to put into practice. I would have preferred even more stories and practical suggestions. At the same time, I really appreciated the brevity of the text so perhaps it was just right as-is.

[F.Gordon]

Many truths and encourages a high standard requiring faith and vulnerability while parenting. I wish I had read it earlier. Doesn't pretend to be a final say in parenting. Parenting is messy. But encourages the sort of heart that I think God wants for us as we parent.

[Dena]

This was a good book with several great parenting nuggets. I found it encouraging.

[Jennie P]

Read it in one afternoon. Easy read, practical tips

[Stacey]

Every parent should read this. Takes the focus off behavior and looks at the heart issues behind it instead. Great companion for love and logic parents.

[Catherine]

A great perspective and an easy read!

[Amber]

3.5 - Some really good tools/ideas. Some of them were kind of obvious, but we get lost in the day to day minutiae and we need reminders of those obvious but often omitted things we should be doing.