Compass: A Handbook on Parent Leadership

by James B. Stenson

Compass summarizes the lessons and experiences of parents to help them succeed as leaders for their children. Author James B. Stenson relates thirty years' experience with parents who have lived as great leaders in family life and have succeeded with their sacred to raise their children right. How they did it and why they did it are the focus of this forming character, countering the consumer culture, understanding discipline and dealing with the influence of mass media. In Compass, he shares his insights about leadership in family life and how this parental guidance is vitally important.

Genres: Parenting, Education

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[NOD · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful insights on raising a Catholic family. Excellent tips and points for reflection that will keep the book off the shelf and worth revisiting.

[Laura McAninch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was skeptical this would be different than any other well-meaning parent book. In addition, I had concerns this twenty year old book would still be relevant. However this far exceeded expectations. I enjoy books from Focus on the Family by Jim Daly, books from Dr. Ray Guarendi, and from Dr. Kevin Leman. This takes all those types of books and uses a plethora of experienced parents to provide common-sense encouragement to enforce your parental leadership. Yes. This is the book to read, reread again and again, and share it forward.

[Diarmaid Ó Conghaile · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably the best parenting book I read. Mr Stenson has no children so he doesn't offer limited advice that worked for his own family. Instead he draws on his experience as a school principal and summarises in a way all he saw in the "good" parents of the "good" kids. Particularly recommendable for young fathers along its sister book on fatherhood.

[Caroline Rosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a gold mine!

[Luiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid book on parenting. It is a little heavy handed on what will happen to your kids if you are not a good parent and keeps coming back to the same few phrases (“love the sinner hate the sin” is in every chapter) but he says he isn't sugarcoating anything in the intro so i can't say it is a terrible thing.
Some really good thoughts and lots to take away. I really need to work though the questions and highlight the points i thought were the best. The big ones that jumped out is showing kids how to serve requires the family to serve.
Parents need to Talk about integrity and virtues so the kids get a vocabulary to discuss thouse topics.
We are raising adults not children.

[Clare · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a workbook for parent leadership, helping you to maintain the strategic parenting vision as well as focus on the practical job at hand. It encourages you to work together as parents, mum and dad, and also together with other parents to support each other: there are discussion questions at the end of each chapter which you can go through as a group workshop. It offers insights for helping children understand important topics like freedom, learning to love good culture, and developing critical thinking and being active when viewing media.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rises above the nitty gritty, helping parents develop a long term vision for raising men and women of character. I was also impressed with the quality of the end of chapter discussion questions.