Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
After reading "Teachable Moments" parents and helping professionals will:
Know nine parenting perspectives that will guide their understanding of children's issues and development
Understand adult and child developmental stages and the impact of these stages on their child's functioning. Readers will also be introduced to a new concept of four developmental stages of effective parenting that provides synchrony with their child.
They will also learn the new concept of four types of parent communication that enhance your relationship with your child.
After identifying and understanding eleven specific communication tools and behavior management strategies, readers also will have "Learn The Concept" practice exercises to help them implement these parenting tools.
This is a source book that parents and helping professionals will take down from their bookshelf time and again as issues and situations occur with their children and clients. As these tools are applied, children will feel more loved, respected, and engaged with their parents. Parents will feel more confident in their parenting style and more emotionally connected both with God and with their children. The market size expands to both churched and unchurched adults with children or grandchildren ages birth to twenty-one, and to the helping professionals who serve this market population.