‘Provides real insight into how to be a good parent’ Bear Grylls
Drawing on their own experience of bringing up four children and having talked to thousands of parents over the years on their parenting courses, Nicky and Sila Lee bring fresh insights and time-tested values to the task of parenting. Full of valuable advice and practical tips, The Parenting Book is a resource for parents to come back to again and again.
Nominated for the Christianity Magazine Book of the Year Award.
Chapters include:
Understanding how families work
- Knowing what the family is for
- Building a healthy family life
- Creating special family time
- Helping sibling relationships
Meeting our children’s needs
- The five ways of showing love
- Words
- One-to-one time
- Touch, presents and actions
Building character through setting boundaries
- The foundation of discipline
- Setting boundaries with pre-school children (aged 0 to 5)
- Setting boundaries with 6 to 10-year-olds
- Letting go gradually with 11 to 13-year-olds
- Teenagers – guiding without alienating
Helping our children make good choices
- Handling anger (ours and theirs)
- Stress, depression and eating disorders
- Sex and sexuality
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Money, TV and the Internet
Passing on our beliefs and values
- Establishing a family identity
- Dealing with the big questions
- Building a child’s spiritual life
This book is also available as an ebook.
