Grace-based Parenting

Grace-based Parenting
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Description of Grace-based Parenting:

Parents in our post-modern world tend to be committed to but anxious about their child-rearing responsibilities. They have tried countless parenting books on the market telling moms and dads what to do and how to do it. Many of these are rigid, fear-based books that leave a large number of parents feeling directionless. Now, there is a grace-based solution from Dr. Tim Kimmel, founder of Family Matters ministries.  Grace-based Parenting is a refreshing new book divided into two parts: the needs we are trying to meet in our children and the delivery system for how we meet them.  Kimmel recommends creating a grace-based home environment that allows children to meet their full potential, to parent children in the same way God parents us.  He presents a child's true needs--according to Scripture--and provides parents a realistic, do-able way to meet them.  The result--spiritually strong children who grow up with a sense of calm and a heart full of purpose and confidence. Parents will welcome Grace-based Parenting.

Information on Grace-based Parenting from the publisher:

Today's leading Christian parenting models are wrong -- they don't work. What families need is a great example, not more heavy-handed methods. In Grace-based Parenting, Dr. Kimmel offers a revolutionary concept that focuses on the model and guidance provided by God the Father -- the ultimate child-and-family expert. Grace-based Parenting is not another manual full of impossible standards; rather it is a new map for learning to see ourselves and our children through God's limitless tenderness -- to raise our kids the way God raises us. This thoughtful, profound, and compassionate book presents a truly liberating way to nurture a healthy family. As we embrace the grace He offers, we begin to give it -- creating a sound foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children.Too much of today's Christian parenting is based on fear: fear of the world ... fear of America's secular culture ... fear of other parents' and the church's opinions. Thanks to strident teachings, many well-meaning parents create rigid rules and checklists for "holy" behavior -- mostly "don'ts" capped off by a highly scripted religious home life. This flawed attempt to keep children safe and make them spiritual, writes Dr. Tim Kimmel, "is an excellent way to wreck your kids." It actually creates emotional scar tissue that may never heal.Grace-based Parenting, on the other hand, mirrors God's love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator for the choices we make. Grace-based Parenting is not only about loving our children the way God loves us. "Grace helps you find the balance point in a world of extremes and keeps you from investing your energies in a long list of things that don't matter." Parents who are able to respond to their children's needs help them to find the security, the significance, and the strength for life's challenges. Grace-based Parenting actually makes parenting more fun, liberates your children emotionally and spiritually, and prepares your whole family for a lifetime of healthy choices and relationships. It is the primary way to meet your kids' most basic needs -- the same way God meets ours.

Description of Tim Kimmel, author of Grace-based Parenting:

The parenting handbook for a new generation of Christian parents includes a foreword by Max Lucado! Parents in our post-modern world tend to be committed to but anxious about their child-rearing responsibilities. They have tried countless parenting books on the market telling moms and dads what to do and how to do it. Many of these are rigid, fear-based books that leave a large number of parents feeling directionless. Now, there is a grace-based solution from Dr. Tim Kimmel, founder of Family Matters ministries. Grace-based Parenting is a refreshing new book divided into two parts: the needs we are trying to meet in our children and the delivery system for how we meet them. Kimmel recommends creating a grace-based home environment that allows children to meet their full potential, to parent children in the same way God parents us. He presents the true needs of a child--according to Scripture--and provides parents a realistic, do-able way to meet them. The result--spiritually strong children who grow up with a sense of calm and a heart full of purpose and confidence. Abridged. Read by the author. 3 CDs. 180 minutes.