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The Best Advice I Ever Got on Parenting: Incredible Insights from Well-Known Moms and Dads
Every parent has moments with their kids that they wish they’d been better prepared to handle. If they’d only known. This clever book, published in conjunction with Focus on the Family, shares heartwarming and vulnerable experiences from well-known moms and dads. Readers will love the upbeat, surprising, sometimes humorous and always relatable stories of raising toddlers, grade-schoolers, tweens, and teens. Contributors Jerry Jenkins, Tim and Darcy Kimmel, Stormie Omartian, Dr. Kevin Leman, Gary Thomas, Michael Smalley, Vicki Courtney, Dannah Gresch, Randy Alcorn, and Shaunti Feldhahn.
- GenresParenting
177 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 9, 2012
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October 9, 2020The author has a book on marriage that is one of my favorites. This one on parenting is along the same lines, very good. Advice is a collection from many people, and worth your time.
August 15, 2019
Nothing new, but good reinforcements. Entertaining characters sharing entertaining & unique stories.
“Parenting is a character profession. Dad’s and moms are pastors of the smallest congregations. As parents we can never forget that our microphones are always hot.”
Treat your kids the way God treats his kids.
Parents are #1 influencers of children. More than any other aspect of today’s culture; your words, silence, presence, absence, example.
An unhappy child is a healthy child. Set boundaries.
Kids need leisurely love.
Don’t over schedule.
One activity per child per term.
Learn how to finish last.
Learn from failures because life is full of them.
Teach humility.
You cannot do everything you put your mind to.
Great/unrealistic expectations can push children too hard & too fast. In the long run what your child can’t do doesn’t matter who your child IS says everything.
Workaholic/absent father: Quickly replaces at work after death. It’s like he never existed.
Talking to your kids about sex.
Olden day advice: Don’t, wait & stop it!!
Modesty, sexuality, appropriate & inappropriate touching.
Tweens: god created your desires. They are healthy & normal. We all have them.
Honor your marriage.
Larry Burkett statement God brought us together with all of our differences not to frustrate us, but to complement each other in our parenting efforts.
Honor high & anger low in family relations.
Numbers verses 6-26 nightly prayer
Girls and modesty:
Why are they dressing that way?
Are they insecure & looking for attention?
So desperate that they are willing to settle for the wrong kind of attention. Or might they just be followers wanting to fit in with the latest trend.
First Timothy 2-9
Kids secretly doubt their parents love.
“Parenting is a character profession. Dad’s and moms are pastors of the smallest congregations. As parents we can never forget that our microphones are always hot.”
Treat your kids the way God treats his kids.
Parents are #1 influencers of children. More than any other aspect of today’s culture; your words, silence, presence, absence, example.
An unhappy child is a healthy child. Set boundaries.
Kids need leisurely love.
Don’t over schedule.
One activity per child per term.
Learn how to finish last.
Learn from failures because life is full of them.
Teach humility.
You cannot do everything you put your mind to.
Great/unrealistic expectations can push children too hard & too fast. In the long run what your child can’t do doesn’t matter who your child IS says everything.
Workaholic/absent father: Quickly replaces at work after death. It’s like he never existed.
Talking to your kids about sex.
Olden day advice: Don’t, wait & stop it!!
Modesty, sexuality, appropriate & inappropriate touching.
Tweens: god created your desires. They are healthy & normal. We all have them.
Honor your marriage.
Larry Burkett statement God brought us together with all of our differences not to frustrate us, but to complement each other in our parenting efforts.
Honor high & anger low in family relations.
Numbers verses 6-26 nightly prayer
Girls and modesty:
Why are they dressing that way?
Are they insecure & looking for attention?
So desperate that they are willing to settle for the wrong kind of attention. Or might they just be followers wanting to fit in with the latest trend.
First Timothy 2-9
Kids secretly doubt their parents love.
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