Resources for Parenting
Recommended Reading for Parenting:
Love, Pray, Listen: Parenting Your Wayward Adult Kids with Joy by Mary DeMuth
Love, Pray, Listen is the gracious, practical resource you need for navigating the rocky terrain of parenting grown-ups.
The Parent’s Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal by Laine Lawson Craft
Through sharing her own story of praying three very wayward prodigals home, Laine Lawson Craft offers hope and a practical, tried-and-true battle plan for parents walking this heartbreaking season of life.
Moms Raising Sons to be Men by Rhonda Stoppe
Mothers of boys have the special calling to shape future men of God. Popular speaker Rhonda Stoppe, mom to two sons, knows this opportunity is a challenge, a joy, and probably the most important work of a woman’s life. Drawing from years of ministering to youth and to women and from her own parenting experience, Rhonda provides refreshingly relevant guidance, biblical and contemporary examples, and humorous insights.
Empty Nest, Full Life by Jill Savage
IT’S HAPPENING! You weren’t always sure you’d get here, but the kids grew up and are surviving–more or less successfully. But what now?! If you’re like most moms, you’re caught between grief and delight, and full of questions, loose ends, hopes, and regrets. Empty nesting can be a disorienting time, but it can also be the best time of your life.

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D.
Easy-to-follow steps for disciplining children from two through twelve without arguing, yelling or spanking. Immediately manage troublesome behavior with reason, patience, and compassion.

Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson
Parents and teachers alike are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Masculinity has been vilified and boys are suffering. This book tackles the questions parents, teachers and others have, offering advice and encouragement based on biblical principles.

How To Really Love Your Child by D. Ross Campbell, M.D.
In Dr. Ross Campbell’s groundbreaking book, he explains the emotional needs of a child and provides you with skills that will help your child feel truly loved and accepted.

Parenting with Love and Logic by Jim Fay & Foster Cline, M.D.
Learn to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Use healthy control without anger, threats, nagging or power struggles.

Praying the Scriptures for your Children by Jodie Berndt
Discover how to pray specifically and expectantly for your children in their faith, character, safety, relationships and their future. Use powerful prayers to influence your children’s lives.

Raising Kids God’s Way: A Biblical Guide for Christian Parents by Kathi Hudson
This book pinpoints the differences between teaching and training and includes biblical methods of parenting. Teach your children decision-making, determining God’s will and skills for reading and studying that will help you bring up your children in a way that they walk with God for their lifetime.

The Key to Your Child’s Heart by Gary Smalley
This bestselling practical book outlines simple principles and workable ideas that help you rear your children to be confident and responsible. Open up a child that has shut out the parents. Set limits and enforce them. Learn the secret for achieving a close-knit family. Learn proven parenting methods that spell the difference between a child that is angry, rebellious and distant and one that is happy and cooperative.

Parenting Beyond the Rules: Raising Teens with Confidence & Joy by Connie Albers
Author Connie Albers shares how to parent well and build a stronger relationship even in the most challenging seasons: the teenage years. Discover how raising teens according to strengths, talents, and personality type, equips teens to manage life. Plus, practical solutions for raising responsible, godly teenagers.