Put the Disciple into Discipline: Parenting with Love and Limits [Paperback]

What do you say when your kid has really messed up?

How do you respond when your three-year-old is throwing pennies at other carts as you walk through the aisles at Target? Or when your eight-year-old daughter rolls her eyes in a dramatic fit of preteen angst? Or when your sixteen-year-old son is lying as he attempts to go somewhere that he never should be?

These are the tough moments in parenting.

But they are also the moments that will define your kids.

We want to give parents the tools they need to truly disciple their kids through their most trying discipline situations. With these tools, parents can guide their kids' hearts towards the God who loves them deeply, and survive those pull-out-your-hair parenting moments. We pray thatPUT THE DISCIPLE INTO DISCIPLINEwill help parents to connect with their kids in a heartfelt way so that their kids, in turn, can connect with the God who created them to be truly and imperfectly His.ERIN MACPHERSONis a stay-at-home mom by day and speaker and author by night. She is a long-time staff writer and editor for major online parenting and educational publications. Erin loves to give Christian women laugh-out-loud anecdotes and Godly, tell-you-like-it-is information.

ELLEN SCHUKNECHT has been an educator for over 35 years, serving as a teacher, head of school, family ministries director, counselor and more. She is currently the Director of Family Ministries at Veritas Academy in Austin, TX, where she mentors parents, teachers, and students. What a treasure for moms! I absolutely love Erin and Ellen's ideas on how to deal with common behavioral issues with children. Their philosophy is compassionate and in-depth; their ideas are practical, peaceful, and ulm