Book Launch: Raising the Challenging Child

This book is co-written by experienced professionals.  Debbie Reed,  Karen Doyle Buckwalter, Wendy Lyons Sunshine (also author of The Connected Child with Karyn Purvis and David Cross). The Connected Child, resources from TCI, and Empowered to Connect training changed my ability to express my view of parenting all children, but especially of children from a hard place.  

These excellent resources are planted in a christian worldview, even though the books do not center on the Word-- concepts from the Jesus life and walk on earth are ever present, and the foundation of the books.  But this new books stands out above the Connected Child in that the formatting, scripts, and tips throughout the book, as well as the focused on one concept a chapter, make this new book my top recommendation to help parent children well.   

Here are some foundation concepts that I believe:

• Lead with Love
• Connect before you Correct
• Redirect before you Correct
• Nurture and Relationship come first
• Make eye contact, smile, engage your child or the child you are working with. 
• Show the child that he or she has your full presence- not your phone in hand or glances at the door, or distractions.  
• Be the calm that your child needs-- so that they can mirror your response. 
• Pray hard and ask the Holy Spirit to change your gut instincts, your sin nature natural response, or the response born out of your childhood or perceptions of the situation.  
• Practice the pause, take a deep breathe (encourage your child too), pray even without words, and then respond. 
• Respond not react
• Don't try to change the behavior in the moment, wait and have the conversation when you are both ready (not crabby, hungry, tired, exhausted.)  
• Love leads.... laughter stops anger, frustration as you can't laugh and be angry.  
• ....

This new book is available January 7th, 2020.... 

Get more info here:  https://www.raisingthechallengingchild.com/

Pre-Order today- Christian Book Distributors has the best price I found.   $12.99 as of 11/25/2019

I’m an avid reader of parenting and classroom management books for 20 plus years. This resource with the examples and scripts built in is exactly what tired weary parents and teachers need. The tips. Seal the deal.

This is the parenting book for the non-reader. Achievable. Simple. Clear to understand. Takes a heart focused on serving and growing kids to achieve. And do overs galore. Grace as it’s best modeled for us.

This is the parenting book for the reader. Well formatted. Clear strategies. A book to be read over and over to remind you that you are growing and improving as a parent and that it matters.

Whether you are parenting a child from a hard place, a neurotypical child, or a special needs child, this book brings all the best practice strategies of research alive and models them well with tips, scripts, and real life examples.

I rarely give a book five stars, but this book is well deserving of this high accolade! Pre-order it today.