Parenting: From Surviving to Thriving


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Everything that parents need to survive and thrive in the 21st Century. Marriage, children and family have been lifelong priorities for Charles Swindoll. Based on his extensive study of both the Old and New Testaments, Chuck has drawn together those timeless insights for building close and rewarding family relationships. Following a biblical exploration of God's purpose and plans for families, readers are equipped with all the tools necessary to grow strong healthy families. Chuck then takes a clear-eyed look at those areas where parents and families often experience difficulties. In typical Swindoll fashion, these discussions are frank and direct but always leave the reader filled with hope and encouragement. Selected Chapters: This Is not your Grandfather's Family Practical Advice on Making a Marriage Stick Cultivating a Life of Self-Worth The Best Kept Secret of Wise Parenting Increasing the Priority of Your Family Staying Young as Your Family Grows Older Danger Signs of Domestic Erosion Restoring Relationships After You've Blown It Affirming and Encouraging Words to Dads Secret Struggles...Family Troubles From Resentment to Rebellion Final Words to Families Then and Now




How to Survive Your Parents


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Then Comes Baby


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Greg and Lisa Popcak—popular Catholic authors, radio hosts, and marriage and family experts—present this unique guide to caring for one’s baby, self, marriage, and spiritual life in the first three years of parenthood. In Then Comes Baby: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood, Greg and Lisa Popcak lend readers the benefit of their twenty-five years’ experience in parenting and marriage and family counseling to help them navigate the earliest years of parenthood. They recommend rituals, routines, and tips on how to manage feeding, fatigue, and finances and how also to prioritize marital bonding and faith life, suggesting that setting the pattern early will pay dividends later. The Popcaks coach Catholic couples as they become first-time parents as they adjust to their new identities and help them face the inevitable challenges of parenthood with ideas for bonding with babies and getting sufficient sleep and nutrition—all while seeing these everyday experiences through the lens of Catholic teaching on the purpose of family life.




Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships


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Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships is designed to be useful both to stepfamily members themselves and to a wide variety of practitioners, as well as to educators, judges, mediators, lawyers and medical personnel.




Marriage Workbook


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Married for 50 years and with 50 + years of pastoral counseling experience, Charles Swindoll is committed to helping couples do more than just get by in their relationship-he wants them to flourish and grow! In Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving Workbook, Swindoll uses eight engaging lessons to equip couples with the tools necessary to thrive in marriage. As a bonus, this workbook includes a DVD, featuring live 3-5 minute vignettes with Chuck. In these DVD setups, Chuck will set up each of the eight lessons with stories and insightful illustrations that relate with each lesson.




The Empty Nest


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Newly updated, The Empty Nest is an uplifting, practical and inspiring guide to adjusting to life after your children leave home. More than half a million parents confront the empty nest for the first time each year. It is one of the most challenging phases of parenting, often creating feelings of loss, lack of purpose and crisis of identity which can lead to depression. Yet it receives little recognition. And contrary to popular opinion it doesn't only affect women who've put their careers on hold: working mothers and fathers suffer too. Equally, it can be a period of liberation and discovery of new challenges, when marriages long overstressed by childcare can be rejuvenated. The Empty Nest includes case studies documenting a wide range of experiences of parents living through an empty nest; expert comment and advice; plenty of practical ideas, inspiration and tips. This encouraging, empowering books helps you to focus on the positive as well as how to handle the changing relationship with your children to ensure a fulfilling and good relationship going forward, an area of parenting often ignored.




Parenting: From Surviving to Thriving


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It's no secret that 21st century life often seems to be working against the hopes and dreams of Christian parents for their families. In this much-needed volume, Chuck Swindoll offers solid advice and helpful, pastoral counsel for building close, rewarding and fruitful family relationships.




The Strong-Willed Mama


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Does parenting your strong-willed child seem impossible? Help is here! If every day is an exhausting battle of wills with your child, you're not alone. Parenting strong-willed children can often leave us feeling defeated, discouraged, and disillusioned. Instead of ending each day weary from failed attempts to win the daily battle of wills, The Strong-Willed Mama: Surviving and Thriving Raising Strong-Willed Children can show you how to overcome your discouragement and embrace a different path, one filled with hope and encouragement. It will provide you with the support you need to get through each day. Not only can you survive parenting, but you can also learn to thrive! Designed to transform the heart of you and your child, you'll empathize more, set clear boundaries, and extend grace. You'll embrace more playful moments, rather than fighting to gain control. Over time, you'll become less frustrated and see the strong-willed mama inside of you emerge. The Strong-Willed Mama will help you: Find encouragement and strength to parent a strong-willed child Recognize how your child's strong will can be a positive asset Discover your sweet spot in parenting your child Understand how to plug into an emotionally supportive community Experience true transformation for both you and your child You'll experience a life-changing shift as you lean into what God is doing, not only in your child, but also in you. Reflection questions and action steps will help you make progress in your parenting journey and respond from a place of love as you interact with your family. The Strong-Willed Mama offers support and encouragement to moms in the throes of raising a strong-willed child, offering assurance that you can not only survive this parenting journey, but also thrive in the midst of it. Let The Strong-Willed Mama bring out the best in you and your strong-willed child.




Surviving and Thriving on the Single-Parent Journey


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"Insightful, honest and very down-to-earth. I so wish there had been a book like this when I was a single dad." Steve Legg, editor, Sorted magazine This is a book that comes alongside the reader as a travel guide and walks through the journey via a step-by-step approach. Walking the Single Parent Journey offers the reader a chance for self-discovery, of coming to terms with the pains and effects of the past in order to boldly face the challenges that lie ahead. The book discusses the everyday struggles and issues that single parents face, whilst offering advice and tips on managing and dealing with them successfully. The author encourages the reader to create systems and put strategies in place to help make life easier, drawing on her own experiences.




Parenting Without Power Struggles


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A guide for busy parents on how to promote harmony in a family shares insights into developmental stages in children while outlining parenting strategies that promote cooperative behaviors without the use of threats or bribes.