Teachable Moments Building Blocks of Christian Parenting [Paperback]

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.Most of us go through twelve years of grade school. Many of us go on to college, even Graduate school. We get certifications for various jobs. We get licenses to drive vehicles, to drive a forklift, to practice medicine, law, or begin other careers. Most of us, however, are parents longer than we are anything else. And yet, very few of us have any useful, organized training to be really good at this life-long job called Parenting. Parenting is the toughest job for which most people never have any training.

As a clinical psychologist, practicing school-clinical child psychology for over thirty-five years, I have come to appreciate the value of conveying certain immutable truths about parenting. These truths, halC'