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How to Ruin Your Child in 7 Easy Steps: Tame Your Vices, Nurture Their Virtues
In a world where parenting advice shifts faster than fashion trends, this “how not-to parent” resource takes a fresh look at how the Seven Deadly Sins are the root of most modern parenting problems.
Through humorous stories and practical biblical wisdom, Patrick Quinn and Ken Roach show how well-meaning parents can ruin their children’s lives in seven easy steps (wrath, greed, envy, lust, sloth, gluttony, and pride). Quinn and Roach then offer a fresh counter-approach—laying a seven-fold foundation for lasting significance so parents can help rescue their children’s heart ... and future.
Patrick M. Quinn is the teaching pastor of the 8,000 member Frazer United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He holds a bachelor of Science from Florida State University and a master of divinity from Emory University, Chandler School of Theology. Patrick and his wife, Rachael, have three children and also serve as foster parents.
Ken Roach is director of Content Creation at Frazer United Methodist Church. He is also husband to Emily and father of four. Ken and his family live in Montgomery, Alabama.
Through humorous stories and practical biblical wisdom, Patrick Quinn and Ken Roach show how well-meaning parents can ruin their children’s lives in seven easy steps (wrath, greed, envy, lust, sloth, gluttony, and pride). Quinn and Roach then offer a fresh counter-approach—laying a seven-fold foundation for lasting significance so parents can help rescue their children’s heart ... and future.
Patrick M. Quinn is the teaching pastor of the 8,000 member Frazer United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He holds a bachelor of Science from Florida State University and a master of divinity from Emory University, Chandler School of Theology. Patrick and his wife, Rachael, have three children and also serve as foster parents.
Ken Roach is director of Content Creation at Frazer United Methodist Church. He is also husband to Emily and father of four. Ken and his family live in Montgomery, Alabama.
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210 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2015
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November 28, 2022
This is one of those books I picked up because the title was cute, but didn’t really expect much from it. I was pleasantly surprised, however, by this fresh take on a parenting book, as it appeared to have very little to do with “parenting” at all.
Quinn begins each chapter with a list of ways to “ruin” your child through the seven deadly sins and then proceeds to encourage the reader to personally do better in each of these areas. After all, kids will do as you do regardless of what you may say.
“Parenting,” Quinn writes, “is not about policies and procedures. It’s about becoming the kind of people we would like to reproduce.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Quinn begins each chapter with a list of ways to “ruin” your child through the seven deadly sins and then proceeds to encourage the reader to personally do better in each of these areas. After all, kids will do as you do regardless of what you may say.
“Parenting,” Quinn writes, “is not about policies and procedures. It’s about becoming the kind of people we would like to reproduce.”
I couldn’t agree more.
January 3, 2025
DNF. Too dramatic even though it’s riddled with sarcasm.
December 6, 2015
Simple. Practical. Biblical.
This was an easy read, but one packed with punch. I will be coming back again and again to read it and glean the depths of wisdom contained within. Aside from how simply it is organized and how practically the lessons are arranged for application, my favorite part was the constant reference to Scripture as the basis for parenting. Ultimately, I found this as much a challenge to my own life as a disciple of Jesus Christ as it was to the way that I seek to parent my children. Highly recommended.
This was an easy read, but one packed with punch. I will be coming back again and again to read it and glean the depths of wisdom contained within. Aside from how simply it is organized and how practically the lessons are arranged for application, my favorite part was the constant reference to Scripture as the basis for parenting. Ultimately, I found this as much a challenge to my own life as a disciple of Jesus Christ as it was to the way that I seek to parent my children. Highly recommended.
February 18, 2018
a good practical book not only about parenting, but ourselves as well. highly recommend to others.
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