Main description:

Are you frustrated when your child is not responsive to your efforts to be a good parent? Are you shaking your head in confusion or barking orders as a last resort in getting through to him/her? Do you wish for more quality time with your child? Parenting is the toughest job for which most parents have no training. We tend to emulate our own parents, for good or for bad. In the Bible, Proverbs 22:6, we are told to "train your children in the ways of the Lord, so that when they are old, they will not depart from Him." Teachable Moments: Building Blocks of Christian Parenting is a source book for parents and helping professionals who want both the spiritual context and step-by-step, practical parenting tools with which to be effective, engaged, Christian parents.

Are you ready to move from surviving to thriving in your relationship with your children? You will learn:

Nine parenting perspectives to guide your understanding of your child,

How communication defines relationship and the four distinct types of communication to use when your child is not having problems,

Eleven specific communication tools and behavior management strategies,

Practice these tools and strategies through "Learn The Concept" exercises embedded in the chapters.

Contents:

Chapter One: Communication is Relationship

Chapter Two: Who's In Charge?

Chapter Three: Children Will Always Test The Limits

Chapter Four: Children Never Mean What They Say

Chapter Five: A Family Is Not a Democracy

Chapter Six: Hormones Will Wreck Havoc

Chapter Seven: Teenagers Will Rebel

Chapter Eight: Problems Can Be Solved

Chapter Nine: The Principle of Responsible Freedom

Appendix One: Active Listening

Appendix Two: Feeling and Sharing Words

Appendix Three: Leads for Empathic Responses

Appendix Four: Behavior Management Strategies

Appendix Five: Nurturing Holding Procedure

Appendix Six: Diet Or Weight Management?

Appendix Seven: Therapeutic Journaling

Appendix Eight: Restrictions That Work

Appendix Nine: Chilling Out: Developing a Quieting Response