Type: BOOK
Author: Thomas W. Phelan
Who's In Charge At Your House?
It's not easy being a parent. You want kids who listen and children you can enjoy. You want to raise happy and competent youngsters, but you don't have a lot of free time to read discipline and parenting books. You also don't need the advice that requires you to be a saint, genius or professionsal psychologist. This book addresses the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight and proven experience.
Type: BOOK
Author: Kathie Reimer
1001 Ways to Introduce Your Child to God shows parents how to make learning about God a part of their child's everyday life. From cover to cover you will find ideas for sharing God's love, showing your child what God is like, teaching your child about God, and developing godly character traits in your child-as well as dozen of simple crafts and activties you and your child can do together. Let 1001 Ways to introduce Your Child to God. Help you show your child the meaning of God's love.
Type: BOOK
Author: Cornils, Stanley P.
Brief stories to help anyone communicate important lessons to children. They are short, the language is plain, and the lessons are real.
Type: BOOK
Author: Mathias and French
Provides families with the tools they need o talk openly about racism and to respect and appreciate racial differences. Includes practical suggestions for all families, as well as age-specific advice. Covers everything from selecting toys for preschoolers to facing a teenager's prejudice.
Type: BOOK
Author: Nappa and Nappa
Fun!! 52 devotions (on per week) that make use of the ordinary things of life to demonstrate or experience spiritual truths. Each devotion includes the Bible basis, a list of equipment or supplies needed, a family activity, comments, questions to discuss and a closing prayer.
Type: VHS
Author: Campbell, Leman, Johnson and Smith
On this video parents will discover that children must feel loved unconditionally or they may not accept their parents moral and spiritual values. Parents will also learn three essential steps to leaving a lasting legacy. Video includes workbook and leaders guide. Also includes Bible study (from rightnow.org).
Type: BOOK
Author: Freda Gardner
This guide is a supplement to the Active Parenting Now program, allowing leaders to ass faith-based content to the program. The first edition of this guide was a joint project of the Family Ministries Commitee, Synod of the Trinity, Camp Hill, PA and the Office of Family Ministries,Presbyterian Church (USA), in collaboration with Active Parenting Publishers, Marietta, GA.
Type: BOOK
Author: Popkin, Michael
Effective program for understanding and leading children, for helping them to thrive and grow. Book is drawn from the video course. Filled with case histories that show how to use the program's techniques. Great guide to building responsive, healthy, and fulfilled family relationships.
Type: VHS
Author:
Luke Perry hosts. Disturbing look at what the epic has become and gives you some idea of what teens need to know today.
Type: VHS
Author: Hamilton, Charity
How to Help Those You Care for in a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Newborn Death Experience. You care, but you don't know how to show it. Teaches spouses, family, friends, neighbors, and early caregivers - clergy, doctors, nurses, and counselors - how to help and what to say and do. Includes resource guide.
Type: BOOK
Author: Nan and Peterson
Helps families prepare for the event (the birth of a baby) but also offers practical suggestions and spiritual guidance for the days, weeks and months that follow.
Type: BOOK
Author: Schultz and Schultz
A good movie guide, which allows the reader to search old to new movies by title. It gives a synopsis, rating and grade along with intended audience, content, director, lead cast and topics. This book helps you find movies suitable for your family's age and awareness level.
Type: BOOK
Author:
Covers the stories of 10 different people who had children. Explores case studies and scientific data as well as the variety of feelings and questions each potential parent should consider. Also covers pregnancy and planning.
Type: BOOK
Author: Rausch, Robert A.
Workbook offering practical suggestions for creative discipline. Illustrates a lifestyle that starts where children are in their lives and carries them through their teen years. Recognizes that every child is different and illustrate how, through parent involvement, individual plans can be developed for any child.
Type: VHS
Author: Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Discussing HIV/AIDS with our children - a video to help with the discussion.
Type: BOOK
Author: Dodson, Lisa
Penetrating probe of everyday realities of girls' and womens' lives in poor America. Helps us rethink our societal approaches to strengthening family life in the 21st century.
Type: BOOK
Author: Arnold, Johann Christoph
**in Spanish** Endangered: Your Child in a Hostile World. Book for mothers, fathers, teachers and those who want to be more effective. Shows you how by transforming the way you view children and empowering you to act on the innate wisdom you already posses.
Type: BOOK
Author: Thompson, Marjorie J.
Offers a sound theological base to explore the ways in which family life is critically important in children's spiritual formation. Speaks of ways to strengthen the spiritual bonding within the family so it can enact the social witness to which it is called.
Type: BOOK
Author: Strommen and Strommen
Book and Leader's Guide. Highly readable, well-written book for parents, clergy, counselors and church youth workers. Info and insights derive from an adolescent-parent scientific study. Topics: understanding themselves as parents, understanding their adolescents, a close family, moral behavior, a shared faith, and outside help.
Type: BOOK
Author: Johnson, Jan
For individual or group study. Guides parents, grandparents and caregivers with thoughtful teaching, compelling illustrations, and practical suggestions.