This 7-session course challenges parents to make their homes Christ-centered places where faith grows naturally and freely. A humorous handbook, Home Grown Handbook for Christian Parenting: 111 Real-Life Questions and Answers, by Karen DeBoer, provides a topical quick reference. It can be used independently and/or with the parenting course. An optional video (available online) includes advice from experts and stories from parents.
Child Discipline: Guidelines for Parents, by J. Gary May. Channing Bete Company (available through Faith Alive Christian Resources).This brief, practical booklet helps parents distinguish between discipline habits that harm and those that help. It guides readers to a better awareness of the purposes and probable results of these different approaches to child rearing. It provides discipline techniques that teach children to use their own resources as they grow to be honest, responsible adults. Available in English and Spanish.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Harper (or see www.fabermazlish.com).Put an end to yelling and nagging with this “how-to” book. Faber and Mazlish provide parent exercises so that parents can improve their communication skills along with opportunities to practice. Filled with hundreds of examples of helpful dialogues, parents learn to adapt this new language to their own personal style.
