Last week I told you about a new Christian parenting resource that is launching next week. Remember – I said it’s available to purchase now, but you’ll want to wait until launch week (April 29 – May 5) to purchase it so you can get $400+ in extra goodies? Okay, glad you remembered because that’s super important.
I was very fortunate to get a sneak peek of The Christian Parenting Handook from the National Center for Biblical Parenting. Hopefully I can help you decide if this book would be a good fit for your family by telling you a little bit more about it and sharing with you what I liked about the book. And if you stick around until the end, there is a giveaway with 5 winners!
The National Center for Biblical Parenting is launching their brand new parenting resource next week – The Christian Parenting Handbook: 50 Heart-Based Strategies for All the Stages of Your Child’s Life by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN. It is full of practical advice and wisdom to help you parent your child through all their years of development and change. The Christian Parenting Handbook doesn’t just provide you with a list of ideas, tips, and advice on parenting – it shows you how to use these ideas and put them into practice.
The 50 strategies provided in this book will help you focus on your child’s heart issues rather than just their behavior. While reading, you will begin to formulate your Biblical parenting philosophy that you can easily apply to the daily interactions that take place in your home.
- Consistency Is Overrated
- Build Internal Motivation
- Identify Character Qualities to Address Problems
- Parenting Is an Investment – Think Long Term
- The Difference Between Punishment and Discipline
- Don’t Practice in the Grocery Store – That’s the Final Exam
- Don’t Give In to Manipulation
- To Spank or Not to Spank
- Privilege and Responsibility Go Together
Overall, I feel that this is an excellent resource to have on your parenting bookshelf, right next to your Bible! I don’t think any parent could go wrong with this book. This will be a book I pull out often and refer to again and again.
Here is what’s up for grabs:
The Honor Multi-Media Package
($59.95 value)
Set of 5 Parenting Shifts ebooks ($49.95 value)
The Parenting Shifts Series gives specific parenting advice for that particular age group. A team of experts, working together with Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, have collaborated to bring you the best in a heart-based approach to parenting at any age. Wherever you are in your parenting journey these books will help you move forward with confidence and effectiveness.
Set includes:
- The Baby Adventure (Birth to 12 Months)
- Toddlers on the Move (Ages 12-36 Months)
- Preschool Explorers (Ages 3-5)
- Elementary Foundations (Ages 5-8)
- Cultivating Responsibility (Ages 9-12)
Biblical Parenting University Online Parenting Course
($99.95 value)
This online class will give you the practical tools to develop more responsibility and cooperation in your home. Parents often comment that giving instructions to their children is the greatest source of conflict in family life. Nagging and angry episodes on the part of parents and kids result when children don’t cooperate. In this class you’ll learn how to adjust your own action point to teach your kids when you mean business. You’ll also learn a five step instruction routine that teaches children the skills they’ll need to follow instructions for the rest of their lives. This class is excellent for teachers as well as parents. You’ll learn how to use rules in your family to teach convictions and values. If you’re looking for a place to start, this is a great class that will help you change significant dynamics in your family using positive strategies.
Access to this class allows you to come and go at your convenience. It’s resident on the Internet so you can view segments whenever you’re online. The 4-hour class is broken into 4 lessons, each with 10-12 five-minute segments. View one segment at a time, or any number of them as you have time.
Disciplemaking at Home ebook
($16.99 value)
Parents have a job to do – pass the faith on to their kids. This book will show you how. Parents are the primary spiritual and moral trainers of their children and much of the everyday work of family life is the classroom where children learn.
The Christian Parenting Companion Guide (includes print copy of The Christian Parenting Handbook)
($49.95 value)
The Companion Guide is a workbook of 50 lessons along with 50 audio tips to take you through The Christian Parenting Handbook step by step. Each lesson contains advice from Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller in a 5 minute audio tip and then offers teaching, an assignment, a Bible verse, and a prayer to help you apply each idea or strategy in your family.
The giveaway will end May 3 at 11:59pm EST.
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This resource looks amazing. I’m intrigued by the chapter on consistency. Sometime when we follow the discipline conversation script, it feels robotic. I would appreciate some wisdom about when to give and when to stand firm with my preschoolers, especially before the arrival of baby 3. Thanks for the review and giveaway. I think I’ll purchase the book even if I don’t win.
Consistency. On my part! And negative thinking — again, on my part.
Whining! Oh. My. Goodness. Make it stop!
I love their materials! I think for me, staying focused is the biggest hurdle.
The heart-based approach to parenting developed in this book has been revolutionary in my life. It’s helped me as a father, husband, leader, supervisor, coach, and in other areas. Behavior modification is effective if your only desire is to get your children to act a certain way. If you want to shape their character, you need to work on the level of the heart. My sons are both adults now and they are fine young men of good character. We consistently focused on the character quality of honoring others in our family! We returned home from vacation in December to find our whole house cleaned and a Christmas tree in place in the corner of the living room. Now that’s honor! This is just one example of the great insights from this special book. Every parent should have this book on their bookshelf or on their Kindle!
disrespectful attitudes and siblings not showing kindness
My biggest parenting challenge is responding in a loving, kind, calm way rather than in anger, especially at the end of the day when fights, selfishness, and back talk seem to crop up a lot.
consistency and keeping my husband on board with school and disciplinary decisions
I’m trying to enter the giveaway. I’m kind of new to this whole world of blogging but when I click on the ‘enter to win’ link, nothing happens.
Biggest parenting challenge??? not yelling when I’m feeling impatient. I’m in the midst practicing the no yelling approach and I see a huge difference in our kids but boy is it soooo hard sometimes.
My biggest parenting challenge is not getting caught up in conflicts when the kids initiate them. I tend to get pulled in and need to tell them that that’s the end of the conversation.
when my boys fight with each other – there are 3 of them & I have a hard time NOT yelling when they aren’t nice (makes perfect sense to yell at them to be nice- right?) God is helping me work on it more and more -this series is a welcomed addition to our parenting resources! 🙂
My biggest parenting challenge right now is how to discipline my 4 year old son. Nothing seems to work with him (everything that has worked for his older sisters doesn’t with him). So I would love to win the Christian parenting handbook for some new ideas.
would love to win! thanks for the give away. 🙂
My son is 15 months right now, so my biggest challenge is keeping up with him! And also managing those tantrums while keeping my cool. 🙂
Just the balance of it all. I’m going through a stage right now with my oldest having a good attitude and I’ve been praying a lot about that and his heart… Parenthood is hard but its filled with grace and mercy!
Balance. It gets hard to balance everything and still make sure they all feel special.
Getting the children to listen with out mommy yelling.
My biggest parenting challenge is simply raising boys. I have all boys and sometimes I just can’t understand why they do the things they do! ha!
This book looks great, I think I will have to buy it 🙂
I’m a grandmother (YaYa) and have my two grandsons quite often. My biggest problem is how to be a grandmother and still discipline when I need to.
Oh the Whining and patience on my part.
My biggest parenting challenge is handling the behaviors / whining / tantrumming with grace and in a Christ-like manner.
Maureen
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