Grace-Based Parenting: Set Your Family Tree
Discover a parenting style that nurtures a healthy family and displaces fear as a motivator for behavior. Learn how to meet your child's three driving inner needs for security, significance and strength with the invaluable gifts of love, purpose and hope.
Modern parents are stressed out and tired. They’ve tried countless parenting books on the market, many of which are harsh, fear-based books that loving parents instinctively reject. As Christians, we frequently believe that the battle for a child's heart and soul is fought on the outside with rigid rules and boundaries, when in fact the opposite is true.
Dr. Tim Kimmel, founder of Family Matters ministries, offers a timeless look at parenting. Rejecting rigidity and checklists that don't work, Dr. Kimmel recommends a parenting style that is the opposite, emphasizing the importance of communicating the unconditional love that Christ offers and affirming this timeless message of grace to one's family. In Grace-Based Parenting, you’ll learn:
- A parenting style that mirrors God's love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator
- Why fear-based parenting is a guaranteed method to set children up for failure
- How to provide a safe space for children to develop into functional adults with purpose, security, and inner strength
As we embrace the grace God offers, we begin to give it—creating a solid foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children. This revolutionary book presents a whole new way to nurture your family.
Top Highlights
“This is a steady and sure love that is written on the hard drive of children’s souls. It’s a complete love that they default to when their hearts are under attack. It’s the kind of love that children can confidently carry with them into the future.” (source)
“First, they assume that their obedience to a stricter and tighter standard will somehow help them raise safer and better children.” (source)
“Love is the commitment of my will
to your needs and best interests,
regardless of the cost.” (source)
“These are homes where God rules in the head but seldom gets to move in the heart.” (source)
“One, they need to watch parents who place their full confidence in the only true God, Jesus Christ. When we say that we’re deriving our hope from Christ, but they see a lack of joy, a lot of fear, and a lack of patience and kindness toward those who don’t know Christ, we send out a mixed message that contradicts the gospel we hope they’ll embrace. The second thing our children need is to be raised by parents who treat them the way Christ treats us as parents. As we’ve already said, the primary way Christ deals with us is through His infinite grace. Grace-based parents have an uncanny way of producing children with strong hope.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Grace-Based Parenting: Set Your Family Tree
- Author: Kimmel, Tim
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2005
- ISBN: 9781418515409