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BOOK REVIEW: Confident Parenting
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by: Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Confident Parenting Author: Jim Burns Publisher: Bethany House ISBN: 978-0-7642-0370-3 Genre: Christian/Parenting
Confident Parenting—while this sounds like an oxymoron—Jim Burns maintains that it is possible. That if you want to raise your children to be responsible adults, then it is necessary to have a plan. Otherwise, you might end up with happy, but irresponsible kids.
Using a make-believe family as a guide to help you through the book, Burns brings up different parenting problems and gives hints how to solve it. Burns teaches us that we need to raise children in a home that is filled with affection, warmth, and encouragement—this must set the emotional thermostat for the home, not the parents’ stress factors, or the teenagers’ attitudes or a child’s temper.
Burns addresses subjects such as:
. Finding replenishment for over-crowded lives . Overcoming negative family patterns . Creating a grace-filled home . Communicating with affection, warmth and encouragement . Raising kids who love God and themselves.
There are little quiz type things at the end of the introduction and each chapter that the parents can give to check mark where they are and how they stand and perhaps help with the plan.
As a parent who wings it, I am doing some things right according to this book. However, there are also things I do differently than the way Burns recommends. He doesn’t make me feel like an idiot for my differences, but instead offers sound advice.
This book is excellent for parents of all age kids—from newborns up to grown up kids with children of their own. I’m not sure I’m ever going to sit down and fill out a ‘road-map’ for raising my kids, but I will use some of the wisdom found in the book. $19.99 hardcover. 208 pages.
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