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This is so good!

Slowly making my way through this book. It's so good!

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"Weakness on our part can actually become a strength when we use it to transfer our kids' allegiance from us to God."

"I realized a truth that had lain hidden for so long. Though I had wonderful, godly parents, I still grew up with certain disappointments that I wanted to rectify as a parent. It finally dawned on me that I had asked something of my parents that they could never be: I wanted them to love me as only God can love me. And now, I wanted to love my kids as only God can love them."

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Wow, I didn't think Politano could write a book that disappointed me. Right out of the gate, I'm not liking this one. I thought first-person present-tense was bad. Third-person present-tense narration is even more irritating. Now I know why she moved away from Bethany House, I doubt they would have published a book written like this. I'm going to give it a little longer to see if I can settle into the rhythm

It seems to me that we tend to take too much credit for kids who turn out good and too much blame for kids who turn out bad.

In what we stress with our children, we reveal the true passion of our own hearts.

Out of love for our children, we must become strong enough spiritually to watch them hurt, to see them become disappointed, to hear their cries.
Otherwise, we risk raising safe and compliant kids with an empty core,

When we are motivated by reverence for God, we lose 99.9 percent of the excuses we make in family life.

"The process of raising children requires skills that God alone possesses, and we are decidedly not God

I wasn't sure about a time travel one, but I am loving this.

After taking a break because I had too many books going,
I'm loving this story.

Every Christian book I've read on parenting has the same speech: "Did you know discipline doesn't equal punishment? Unlike other books, I don't guarantee outcomes." *laughing emoji*
I'm looking forward to reading this book, but I do find it funny how many books start with this little intro.

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I think I should start skipping the introductions. Because all these books say: "This isn't like the other books that have pat answers and guarantee results" Ummm, I have yet to find that books so....

I'm loving this! This will be such a helpful, quick guide in the coming months. I also love that it has useful information for different moms who make different choices (bottles, breastfeeding, stay-at-home, return to work).
It's not meant to be exhaustive/have all the information to back stuff up, just a quick reference guide for moms (and dads).

Yes, this is a secular book. I'm finding my dive into parenting books *cough* obsession with *cough* has made me want to read a few with a very different worldview than my own.

I'm grateful for my mother and mother-in-law. They've shared stories with me about their hospital and home births, and they've shared about their medicated and unmedicated births. This book is very anti-medicated/intervention. Due to some complications in my own pregnancy, I'll be delivering at the hospital. If I didn't have the wise women I do around me, this book would be scaring me without backing up their claims.

Wow, that was a bothersome representation of gender roles in the Old Testament, steeped in modern understanding and reading of the Bible, not a deep understanding of how the law protected and elevated women. You don't have to tear down what God wrote in the Old Testament to see the beauty and hope of what is in the New Testament.

There was an excellent section in this book, and now it's gone rambling and not well-written. This isn't a bad book, but just not a great one.

After a long thing of what you should say to your kids the author was like "and that is what I wish I had said to my kids and never did"
Ummm, so you are probably not a good person to get scripts from because you obviously have forgotten how to talk to children.

Wow! I am glad my parents expected better from me as a teen... and treated me better.

I am so grateful my parents didn't us this way of doing discipline. Yes, they spanked us when we were little and took away privileges when we were older, but they didn't shame us, purposefully embarrass us, or show any pleasure in our pain (including the stuff we brought on ourselves). They showed love, care, and respect for your personhood from the time when we were little.

I'm sorry, your kids need to know you care about their behavior and feelings. Yes, you shouldn't act out or show everything you feel. But dealing out punishment like you care nothing shows your kids... *shocking* that you don't care or love them.
I'm so glad God shows us He cares about us when we are behaving well and when we're in sin.

And this is why spanking has a general bad rap. People like this make punishment of any kind into something vindictive and mean. (Yeah, this book is not going to get a good rating).

He's trying to be funny and but I don't think he's funny.
He had an absolutely pathetic idea of the amount of time parents should spend on spiritual things.
He talks very negatively about children in general. Again, he is trying to be funny but... It's just not.