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When to Get My Kid a Phone: Navigating the Tensions (Drew Hill)
$5.62Determining when to get your child a smartphone is a complicated yet critical decision. Parents today are facing new challenges as technology and our children’s access to it gives rise to new worries and concerns. Thoughtful parents wonder how to steward technology well and protect their children from potential pitfalls. When is the right time to give your child access to such powerful tools?
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Helping Children with Shame (Edward T. Welch)
$5.62Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling comes from internal or external pressures, children need help to understand what to do with their feelings of inadequacy and rejection.
Counselor and author Edward T. Welch helps counselors and parents see how shame is addressed in Scripture and how the Lord looks on struggling children with compassion and acceptance. He demonstrates how to connect a child’s story of shame to the themes of Scripture so that a child can put words to his or her experience and see that Jesus knows our name, clothes us with dignity, and gives us his reputation.
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Children and Divorce: Helping When Life Interrupts
$5.62Sadness, depression, anger, fear, anxiety, loyalty conflicts; your children are struggling with at least some of these emotions after your divorce. To make things even more difficult, you are struggling too. How do you help your child cope with the changes in the family, while you’re still adjusting?
As she explains the various responses you and your children may be having to your divorce, Amy Baker applies the gospel of Jesus Christ in practical and kid-friendly ways to the struggle your family is going through. As you share God’s Word with your children, your family will grow in faith and hope through this difficult time.
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Angry Children: Understanding and Helping Your Child Regain Control
$5.62If you have an angry child you are most likely worn out, confused, and looking for answers to questions like these:
“How can I restore sanity to this chaos?”
“How can I prevent these anger storms in my child?”
“Why does this rage seem to explode from out of nowhere?”Dr. Michael R. Emlet offers you needed help by explaining both the deeper heart issues and possible physical weaknesses that can fuel a child’s angry explosions. Then, using his experience as a doctor, counselor, and parent, he applies the truths of the Bible to your child’s struggles with anger and outlines practical strategies for helping your child learn self-control.
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Grieving the Loss of Your Child: Comfort for Your Broken Heart
$5.62The unthinkable has happened. Your beautiful child is gone, and you are left with a gaping hole in your heart and in your life. How could this have happened? How is it possible that you have outlived your own child?
Ryan Showalter understands the magnitude of grief and pain that has entered your life. With compassion, grace, and a pastor’s heart, he walks with you through the valley of the shadow of death and leads you toward the comfort only God can provide.
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Help For Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love
$5.62How do you blend two separate families into one house-hold? Family traditions, values, interests, and parenting styles are often so far apart that simple questions like, “Who takes out the trash?” or “Where shall we go for Christmas?” can quickly become flashpoints of conflict.
Winston T. Smith provides a road map to the unique challenges that each member of a stepfamily faces. Drawing on his experience as a marriage and family counselor, Winston Smith shows how understanding each other’s struggles, honest sharing, and sacrificial love can transform and unify your stepfamily. As you learn to practically apply these biblical principles, you will find that there are also unique blessings to be found in your new, blended family.
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How Do I Stop Losing it with My Kids? Getting to the Heart of Your Discipline Problems
$5.62The kids are hungry, dinner is late, everyone’s tired and on edge, and then it happens–you lose control and blow up at them again. Is losing control with our children inevitable in our busy world? Or is there a better way? Learn from William P. Smith a better way to relate to your children than with irritation, anger, and harsh words. Drawing on his counseling and parenting experiences, he explains why you lose control with your children, and then offers strategies that will help you change the way you relate to your children when you are under pressure.
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How to Talk to Your Kid About Sex
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Honesty and Openness on a Sensitive Subject.You don’t want to make a big deal out of it. Isn’t everyone else already talking about sex? Yes, they are talking, and their words are shaping your child’s understanding right now. In a culture that glorifies casual sex, kids will only learn to think biblically about it when parents speak up.
William P. Smith shares a practical, non-threatening model that will connect your child to God’s perspective on sex and intimacy. As you initiate intentional conversations, you will create a safe and God-honoring space for your child to ask questions about sex and receive biblical answers.
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Leading Your Child to Christ: Biblical Direction for Sharing the Gospel
$5.62You want to lead your child to Christ, but you often wonder exactly what you should be saying and sharing with your child. How do you know what parts of the gospel to share? How do you know if your child is really understanding the good news of the gospel or just trying to please you?
With decades of experience in children’s ministry and as a father, Marty Machowski outlines the core truths of the gospel and explains them in ways a child can understand. Using reflective questions, he helps you understand how to live the gospel openly with your children, allowing them to see how Christ is changing you, as well as how he desires to love and bring change to their lives.
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iSnooping on Your Kid: Parenting in an Internet World
$5.62In our increasingly wired world, your children have access to people, images, and media that you don’t want them to experience. What’s a concerned parent to do? What does wisdom look like when technology floods into your home bringing access to pornography and other Internet dangers?
Providing extensive practical suggestions, Nicholas Black directs you in making a plan with your family for safety and clear boundaries on technology use. By reminding you of how Christ leads you to repentance and faithful living, he offers helpful advice on how you can help your children grow in purity, integrity, and dependence on Christ, as they navigate the world of technology.
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Peer Pressure: Recognizing the Warning Signs and Giving New Direction
$5.75Does your child do and say things just to be liked and accepted by others? Does he constantly talk about what others think of him or say about him? Does he go from one relational drama to the next? These are all warnings signs that your child is feeling the weight of peer pressure.
Paul Tripp explains the fears that underlie your teenager’s struggle with peer pressure, and offers specific things to do and not to that will encourage your child to live for God’s approval, instead of the acceptance of friends.
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Raising Sexually Healthy Kids
$5.62In an increasingly sexualized world, it’s difficult to know how to teach your children about their sexuality in a godly way. On the one hand, you don’t want to give the impression that sex is bad or make them feel ashamed of their bodies. But on the other, you don’t want to reinforce the message, “If it feels good, do it.” How do you instill a godly view of sexuality into your child without just giving them a list of “don’ts”?
From his years of ministry on sexual issues, David White equips you to help your child form a positive, biblical framework for their sexuality. He walks you through how to build a basic foundation for understanding God’s purposes for sex, as well as giving you tips for how to address more complex issues that may arise as your child grows older and more aware of other expressions of sexuality.
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When Your Kid’s in Trouble: How to Intervene Constructively
$5.62The question was never whether or not this child of yours would get into trouble. It was only a matter of time: now the question is how will you respond?
William P. Smith explains that your child’s trouble is a God-ordained opportunity for you to pursue a bigger goal than raising a child who behaves. Right now you can demonstrate what God’s kindness and grace looks and feels like. By applying biblical principles as you respond, you can help your child to experience the life-changing reality of God’s perfect love in the midst of personal failure.
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Your Child Says, “I’m Gay”
$5.62Four little words that will rock any parent’s world: “I think I’m gay.” If your child said this, you are probably experiencing a combination of shock, denial, anger, confusion, and uncertainty. Despite your shock you still want to respond well. What should you say? What questions should you ask? How do you move forward in your relationship?
Tim Geiger walks with you through the ups and downs of dealing with your child’s revelation. With the wisdom and compassion of Scripture, he offers helpful advice for navigating the new complexities in your relationship with your child and hope for moving forward together.
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Your Gay Child Says “I Do”
$5.75We’re getting married!” You expected to hear these words from your child, but you never dreamed you would be asked to bless a same-sex union. How should you respond when your gay child says, “I do”?
This minibook from Harvest USA, a ministry for people struggling with sexual issues, shows parents how the parable of the prodigal son offers them a practical, grace-filled model for interacting with their own wayward adult child. Parents are guided through possible responses that communicate grace and truth to their child while positioning them to actively trust God and wait with hope for his intervention.
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Dealing with Your Rebellious Teenager: Help for Worried Parents
$5.62Barbara Miller Juliani draws from her own experience of rebellion and also from decades of ministry to families to encourage weary parents that they can lean hard into the Lord for help in this difficult season. She walks readers through biblical truths about God that will remind them that he is aware of their situation and struggles, that he is near to help, and that he is calling them to walk in faith that results in small, tangible ways to love their teenager.
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Parenting Your ADHD Child: Biblical Guidance for Your Child’s Diagnosis
$5.62If your child is diagnosed with ADHD, don’t give up hope! No diagnosis can negate the fact that your child is made in the image of God. You can help your child, as one of God’s image bearers, to deal with the behaviors associated with ADHD. The Bible offers you and your child much wisdom, comfort, and hope as you face this struggle together.
Rita K. Jamison walks parents through 18 behavioral characteristics related to ADHD, showing them how to apply Scripture to each type of behavior. As you teach your child to examine their heart before the Lord instead of immediately reacting to their impulses, you will help them experience the faith-building satisfaction of real change.
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Helping Your Adopted Child: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Identity (Paul David Tripp)
$5.75Long before you decided to adopt, long before your child was born, God planned to put your adopted child into your home. Your child is an amazing gift from God, but nurturing an adopted child also brings unique challenges.
Understanding your adopted child from God’s perspective will allow you to address those challenges by faith and with hope. Learn from counselor and adoptive father Paul David Tripp how to help adopted children understand their identity and place in God’s world.
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Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Worries Get Big (Julie Lowe)
$5.62When your child is anxious, it’s easy to get anxious too. You want to help your child regain a sense of peace and safety, but how can you? This world is big and scary and sometimes our worries get big too.
Julie Lowe, a skilled family counselor with more than twenty years of experience, guides parents in assessing their child’s anxiety and gives practical ways to encourage and help worried children. She leads parents away from quick fixes that contribute to dependencies and points them to Christ, the One who is always available, loving, and powerful.
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Single Parents: Daily Grace for the Hardest Job
$5.62If you are a single parent, you don’t need anyone to tell you that you have one of the hardest jobs in the world. Does the Bible offer any particular words of grace or promise of power for you? Trying to be both “Mom” and “Dad” – breadwinner, cook, chauffeur, comforter, dishwasher, homework helper, disciplinarian, nurse, role model….it’s endless, and can wear down the hardiest man or woman.
Robert Jones addresses the many different issues that single parents struggle with – guilt, bad memories, anger, bitterness, resentment, loss, grief, and fear. Most importantly, he shares Biblical truths and practical parenting strategies that will give you hope and direction for each day.
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