Christian Parenting Advice

Excerpt

Parents teach their children their ABCs before they enter school; now it’s time to teach them the ABCs of life (Attitude, Behavior, and Character). “How?”, you ask. Stand up to the plate and take charge. In Have a New Kid by Friday, Dr. Kevin Leman urges you to take his 5-day challenge to implement a new parenting strategy. Based on cause and effect instead of threats or fears, you’ll soon be seeing lots of improvement in your child’s behavior and experience a closer bond as well. Let the fun begin! Hardcover.

Audiobook on CD | Book & Audio CD Set

Excerpt

Excerpt

Excerpt

Attend a one-on-one seminar with America's favorite family adviser right in your own living room! You'll come away equipped with a practical understanding of the secrets to raising sons, dynamic biblical principles, and invaluable encouragement to aid you in steering your boys toward confident, responsible manhood. These warm, humorous, and commonsense DVDs are based on Dr. Dobson's best-selling book Bringing Up Boys and were recorded in front of a live audience at Focus on the Family. Eleven sessions, over 6 hours total. Includes 96-page softcover workbook and 4 DVDs.

Church Curriculum | Participant's Guide | Hardcover Book | Paperback
Audiobook on CD (Abridged) | Como Criar a los Varones

Excerpt

Here's the help you need to raise kids who take responsibility for their lives and attitudes. Parents will learn how to set loving limits, bring control to an out-of-control life, define appropriate boundaries and consequences for children, and much more.

Workbook | Abridged CD | Book/Workbook Set

DVD | Participant's Guide | Leader's Guide

Límites para Nuestros Hijos

Excerpt

In The Power of a Praying Parent, Stormie Omartian shares from personal experience how parents can pray for their children's safety, character, adolescence, peer pressure, school experiences, friends, and relationship with God. Now adults, Stormie's grown-up children also reflect on the way their praying parents raised them and the difference it made in their lives. Paperback.

Hardcover | Study Guide | Paperback Book & Study Guide Set 

Book of Prayers | Prayer Cards | Perpetual Calendar 

El Poder de los Padres que Oran

Excerpt

Dr. Tim Kimmel explains how fear-based parenting is a guaranteed method to set children up for failure. Learn how to meet your child's three driving inner needs for security, significance and strength with the invaluable gifts of love, purpose and hope.

DVD Curriculum

Excerpt

Using the customs of pursuing knighthood in the medieval era, author Robert Lewis draws parallels to achieving manhood today. It's a meticulous process that requires vision, goals and an uncompromising character. Inside this book, you'll find solid advice to help you courageously lead your son into a biblical masculinity that will impact others.

DVD Curriculum

Excerpt

Are you expressing your love in a way your child understands? Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell help you discover your child's unique communication style, so you can better meet his or her deepest emotional needs. From quality time to physical touch, these five "love languages" hold the key to your child's development and success.

Audiobook on CD(Abridged) | Audiobook on CD(Unabridged)

Audiobook on Cassette | Spanish

The Five Love Languages of Teenagers

Audiobook on CD(Abridged) | Audiobook on CD(Unabridged)

Excerpt

Excerpt

Excerpt

Here's an insightful, encouraging guide for parents who could use a little support while raising children in a culture that tears kids down. Hope and advice abound for surviving the battle of wills, handling the perils of adolescence, discipline and power games, escaping burnout, releasing grown children and much more.

Spanish Version

Excerpt

For Parents Only helps parents understand how their teen or pre-teen child is wired and how to give that child what he or she needs. Shaunti Feldhahn and Lisa Rice free parents to communicate in healthier ways as they discover that understanding their kids may not be as complicated as they think.

Discussion Guide | Book & Discussion Guide Set

Audiobook on CD(Unabridged)

Excerpt

Many parenting books are based on hit-or-miss theories steeped in secular thinking. This one draws from Pastor Tripp's seasoned experience as a father - and from God's holy Word! Grounded in the Bible's divine plan for parenting, this guide defines your goals as a parent and provides the scriptural methods for accomplishing them. Covers infancy through the teen years. Paperback.

Parent's Handbook | Audiobook on CD | DVD Curriculum

Cómo Pastorear el Corazón de su Hijo

Excerpt

Every boy wants to be a hero. He wants to be powerful, he wants to be dangerous, he wants to know ... 'Do I have what it takes?' Conversely, every girl wants to believe that she is captivating and worth fighting for. She wants to know ... 'Am I lovely?' Only you, Dad, can answer those questions. That makes you the most powerful man in your child's life. Now with a new cover, this booklet will show that You Have What It Takes.

Audiobook on CD

Excerpt

Endow your kids with a legacy more precious than gold. Give them a growing faith in Christ! Focusing on the first 12 years of life, this readable guide offers practical insight on how to mold your children's spiritual development and God-given strengths; teach them solid Christian values; and customize a spiritual growth plan for your family. A Focus on the Family Resource; hardcover.

Also available:

Parent's Guide to the Spiritual Mentoring of Teens

More of Focus on the Family

Excerpt

In the midst of your busy schedule and your children's hectic activities, it's hard to find the time to teach your children about God's love. In A Mom After God's Own Heart, Elizabeth George offers you 10 principles that you can put into practice every day. Each small choice makes a difference. Start today by learning practical ways to influence your child through prayer, teaching, and God's word. Individual or Group study.

Study Guide | Book & Study Guide | Audiobook on CD | Spanish

Excerpt

Excerpt

Children are going to challenge authority to see where their boundaries lie. But, for the strong-willed child especially, defining those boundaries can be a full-time, frustrating task for parents. Full of the proven, practical advice of Dr. James C. Dobson, you'll find out what makes the strong-willed child tick, how you can shape their will without damaging their spirit, how to guide them into successfully into adulthood and much, much more.

Hardcover | Workbook | Hardcover Book & Workbook Set

Audiobook on CD | Audiobook on Cassette | Spanish

Excerpt

Talking to your children about sensitive topics is never easy. And yet, what parent wouldn't want his or her child to go into the teen years confident and wise to the challenges of adolescence and beyond? Your children are depending on you to get the information they need and want to face the coming years of change. Dr. Dobson, a leadingfamily psychologist, knows how to speak directly and sincerely to youth about the topics that concern them the most.

Family Guide & Workbook | Group Guide | Family CD Pack

Excerpt

Take a look at the biblical examples Mary & Joseph looked to for parenting advice - both what to do and what not to do. Author Rick Osborne offers fifty biblical examples - from Adam and Eve to the Apostle Paul - of the best and worst in parenting. These illustrations provide godly insight for parents who want to raise godly, God-honoring children.

Audiobook on CD

Excerpt

Excerpt

You want to raise respectful kids - and YOU CAN. Jill Rigby offers advice for how to succeed by modeling respect, helping your kids find purpose and learn perseverance, setting and maintaining healthy boundaries and other useful tips that will help you succeed in raising respectful kids in a disrespectful world.

More by Jill Rigby:

Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World