Parenting is Heart Work Changes the Way People Think about Parenting
This foundational parenting book starts with a study of the 750 times the word “heart” is used in the Bible. That changes everything. God’s Word reveals new insight into strategies for change in a person’s life.
Concordia University’s Family Ministry Program requires that every student read Parenting is Heart Work. Dr. Ben Freudenburg says, “This is our go-to book for parenting. It’s biblical practical approach is powerful.”
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All Parents Know How Important it is to Reach The Heart. This Book Shows You How.
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Parenting is Heart Work helps parents expand their parenting from reward/punishment to a heart-based approach. Full of tools and practical strategies you’ll maximize your work with your children. You’ll learn how a heart based approach will change the way you correct, give instructions, and teach children to take responsibility for their mistakes. You’ll find specific strategies for connecting with a child’s heart and adjust what they believe about life.
Whether you’re trying to build a good foundation for your parenting even before you have children or you’re trying guide an adult child, this book will ground you with what God’s Word has to say about a child’s heart, and teach you how to influence it.
Equip parents to touch the hearts of their kids with this biblically-based, practical training program. Parents and teachers of children 2-18 years will benefit from this life-changing curriculum. The Parenting is Heart Work Church Kit includes:
• Eight 35-minute video sessions
• A Leader’s Guide with reproducible pages for attendees
• A copy of the 256 page book Parenting is Heart Work
Parenting is Heart Work Church Kit
8 Session Children’s Curriculum: Discovering God’s Treasures in Family Life— for Children Ages 3-12
Using games, activities, Bible stories, science experiments, object lessons, and snacks, children learn eight key principles that will help them be successful in family life. This curriculum stands alone or could be used to complement the video series or the Training Manuals and CDs. Each lesson has enough content to fill over 90 minutes of class time. It can also be broken into shorter sessions for Sunday School or family activity nights.
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The Heart Work Training Manual with 8 MP3s is designed to help you integrate eight key patterns into your child's life. With practice, your child can develop the character needed to follow instructions, receive correction, and accept no as an answer. If you’re seeing negative tendencies develop in your child, then this curriculum is for you.
Heart Work Video Series
Energize parents with this 8-session
parent-training video course. It comes complete
with reproducible take-home pages for each
participant.
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Parenting is Heart Work Book
This book has been endorsed by
over 50 ministry leaders including AWANA who
is using it in their new parent training programs.
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The Treasure Hunters Children's Curriculum
Use this 8-session activity-based
children's curriculum with a group of children
or in your own home. Designed for children
ages 3-12.
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Parenting is Heart Work Training Manual with Eight 45-minute Audio Sessions
The Heart Work Training Manual with Audio Sessions is designed to help you integrate
key success principles into your family.
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Each of these tools is part of the Parenting is Heart Work curriculum. The book forms the basis and the rest of the materials build on that basis with many practical strategies and techniques.
Read summaries of each lesson in the Heart Work Training Manual and the video lessons.