Grow Your Parenting Library

Below you’ll find a variety of time-less books to inspire and equip you on your journey through parenting. Whether you’re a parent or a grandparent, doing this alone, or with a partner, these tools can help you develop the strategies needed in your home. Every child is unique and each adult develops a different parenting style, but these resources show you in practical terms how to work with your child’s heart to bring about lasting change. We have four goals for every resource we create for you. These tools are biblical and practical. They focus on heart change, not just behavior change, and they help develop adults skills and character in your child so kids grow into mature adults. If you’d like help choosing a resource to start with, use the contact form to request a call.

Parenting is Heart Work

Rewards and punishment have long been used to motivate kids to change their behavior. But behavior problems are symptoms of deeper issues and behavior change is often temporary at best. A heart-based approach to parenting is far more effective.

All parents want to reach the hearts of their kids, but what is the heart? This book shares the results of a study that examines over 750 times the word “heart” is used in the Bible and first asks the question, “What is the heart?” You’ll find the conclusions insightful and empowering.

Then the book asks an important application question, “If that’s what the heart is, then how do I parent differently?” As you read this book, you’ll gain a greater understanding into your own heart as well as the heart of your child, resulting in significant action steps that encourage change.

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Parenting is Heart Work Training Manual

The routines you have in family life are strategic for heart change if you use them as avenues for character development. This manual will guide you through an important process to develop the relational routines in your home.

The heart contains tendencies. Some kids have a tendency to be disrespectful, react in anger, or respond with meanness toward a sibling. Targeting these tendencies with new routines to build character will help your child change from the inside out. The Instruction Routine, for example, teaches kids cooperation, responsiveness to authority, and responsibility. It’s not just about changing the way you give instructions. It’s about practicing the Instruction Routine over and over every day to build new patterns of thinking and acting.

Three chapters on correction help parents reach the hearts of their kids using a Break, a Positive Conclusion, and 7 Categories of Consequences. Bad attitudes and learning to Accepting No as an Answer are addressed in chapters as well. Each of eight chapters gives step-by-step practical application to change the way your family relates. By practicing these strategies, heart issues in kids are addressed one step at at time.

This manual includes eight 45-minute downloadable audio sessions that complement each chapter.

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Motivate Your Child

A Christian Parent’s Guide to Raising Kids Who Do What They Need to Do Without Being Told

One of the keys to doing well in life is to become internally motivated. Learn to move away from motivating kids with rewards and punishment to developing their internal motivation system. This involves spiritual development and conscience development. The conscience provides four promptings in a person’s heart. These promptings are to Do What’s Right, Deal With Wrongs, Be Honest, and Care About Others. Often these promptings are weak or ignored by kids but parents can learn to parent in a way that takes advantage of the child’s standard operating equipment.

Motivate Your Child takes you step-by-step through each area of the conscience to understand what it is and then helps you parent in a way that strengthens this internal guidance system designed by God. Spiritual development is also addressed in ways that help kids maximize their spiritual growth.

The Motivate Your Child book and Action Plan Manual work hand in hand to help you develop a strategy for internal motivation and character development in your child.

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Motivate Your Child Action Plan

One of the key words in a “heart-based” approach is “strategy.” Some parents go through their day merely reacting to problems without any real goal in mind except survival. The Motivate Your Child Action Plan teaches you to identify a character quality your child needs based on an assessment of the problems you see. Then instead of reacting to the problems you begin developing a strategy for character development.

The manual takes you step-by-step to create an Action Plan and even gives you insight into how to share the plan with your child as your build relationship. Learn to work side-by-side as you move your child toward the goal.

Using the same strategies God uses with his children, this manual outlines a process to develop an Action Plan for any child of any age with any problem. You’ll learn how to use five components to address the tendencies of a child’s heart.

The manual includes twelve downloadable audio sessions and outlines twelve meetings to have with your child to address character.

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Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids

We call this our “Honor Book.” All kids need honor but those who demonstrate selfishness benefit from it the most. For every form of selfishness, there’s an honor-based solution.

Young children as well as teens often demonstrate challenges relating to other people. The biblical concept of honor is an excellent solution. Developing honor in one’s life teaches so many important life skills. This book addresses sibling conflict, difficult family dynamics, valuing others, taking initiative, learning to serve, and so much more.

Focusing on honor as a family changes the way we relate to one another as well as how we relate to others outside the home. Most importantly honor changes us on the inside. We learn to be more godly. Romans 12:10 teaches us to “Honor one another.” This book shows us how.

Included are eight Family Together Time activities in the back of the book to help you introduce the concept of honor to your family.

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The Christian Parenting Handbook

Nuggets of parenting wisdom condensed into 50 short chapters, each one biblical, practical, and relevant for parents of children ages 2-18. Learn appropriate ways to correct, instruct, and set limits. Glean wisdom for dealing with emotions, conflict, and developing closeness in your family… and much more. This is the go-to reference book for every parent. It even contains an index in the back so you can find the topic you need and jump right in to get answers.

You will learn

A practical tool to stop children’s arguing
How to separate firmness from harshness
A strategy to help children change their hearts
Ways to teach kids to add energy to family life
Solutions for sibling conflict
The relational side of parenting
What to do when parents don’t agree
How to help kids who are blamers
and much more.

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The Christian Parenting Companion Guide

The Christian Parenting Companion Guide is a workbook of 50 lessons along with 50 downloadable audio tips to take you through The Christian Parenting Handbook step-by-step. Each lesson contains advice from Dr Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN BSN in a 5-minute audio tip and then offers teaching, an assignment, a Bible verse, and a prayer to help you apply each idea or strategy in your family. This manual is a companion to The Christian Parenting Handbook. The actual tips are contained in that resource.

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Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Character In You and Your Kids

Parents often feel angry when their children do the wrong thing. However responding to children in anger rarely brings about the desired result but instead can damage relationships and build walls in family life. Anger doesn’t have to be the enemy. It can be a flag that makes you an even better parent. Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller RN, BSN show you how to use your frustration to identify problems and then move into one of the seven routines to build character in your children. We say that anger is good for identifying problems but not good for solving them. Learn what your anger is telling you and then help your kids grow in character. Also, if you find yourself holding onto deeply rooted anger from the past, there is also a section of this book focused on what true forgiveness means and how to move forward in your life as a parent.

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Home Improvement

This book is more than just a parenting book. It’s a tool to use with your child. Each chapter is divided into two parts. The first part is a fictional story about a family who experiences problems and then learns a new tool. The second part helps you apply that tool in your home. Read the first part to your child. It presents family issues from the parent’s perspective. Children are often blinded by their own viewpoint and seeing the problem from the parent’s view is eye-opening. Furthermore, it opens opportunities to talk about ways your family relates and ways you can make changes.

In This Book You Will Learn…

Four truths that will motivate you to continue on when you’re tired, discouraged, and ready to give up.
A powerful strategy to help children change their hearts–not just their actions.
A unique concept that will reveal the cues you give to tell your children when they must obey.
A six-step “Secret Weapon” you can use when all else seems to have failed and you need a bigger plan to help children develop character, not just change their behavior.
Three practical ways to be a coach to your children and help them learn from life.
One small ingredient to add to your parenting to help your children develop wisdom.
A three-step plan to help your children deal with anger through frustration management, anger control, rage reduction, and releasing bitterness.

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Grow Your Parenting Library

Parenting is Heart Work

Parenting is Heart Work Training Manual

Motivate Your Child

A Christian Parent’s Guide to Raising Kids Who Do What They Need to Do Without Being Told

Motivate Your Child Action Plan

Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids

The Christian Parenting Handbook

The Christian Parenting Companion Guide

Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Character In You and Your Kids

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