Raising Great Kids
A Comprehensive Guide to Parenting With Grace and Truth
Zondervan · Print & ebook · December 28, 1999
What does it take to raise great kids?
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- Who it’s for
- A practical case for holding acceptance and discipline together while raising children.
- Themes
- Balanced parenting, Children's character development, Grace and discipline
- Genres
- Christian Parenting, Christian Family & Relationships, Family & Relationships
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What does it take to raise great kids? If you've read any books on parenting, conflicting opinions have probably left you feeling confused. Get tough! Show acceptance. Lay down the rules. Lighten up, already! There's got to be a balance--and there is. Joining their expertise with the wisdom of MOPS International (Mothers of Preschoolers), Drs.
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Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you provide both the care and acceptance that make grace real to your child, and the firmness and discipline that give direction. Avoiding the twin extremes of permissiveness and over-control, Drs. Cloud and Townsend show how you can help your child cultivate six necessary character traits: attachment, responsibility, reality, competence, morality, and worship/spiritual life. At last, here is an effective middle ground for raising up children who will handle life with maturity and wisdom. Raising Great Kids will help you equip your son or daughter to accept life's responsibilities, grow from its challenges, and freely and fully explore all that it has to offer.
Grace and Guidance
A practical case for holding acceptance and discipline together while raising children.
Come here for
- A middle ground between permissiveness and over-control
- Character growth rooted in care, direction, and faith
Expect
- Six traits, including responsibility, competence, and spiritual life
- A straightforward focus on maturity and meeting life's challenges
Where it sits
| Christian Parenting | 55% |
|---|---|
| Family & Relationships | 44% |
| Christian Family & Relationships | 33% |
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Publisher categories
- Babies & Toddlers
- Family & Relationships
- Raising School-Age Kids
- Christian Family & Relationships
- Authors
- Henry Cloud, John Townsend
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Published
- December 28, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Balanced parenting · Children's character development · Grace and discipline
- Reading lane
- Babies & Toddlers