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Thursday, 19 January 2012

How to be a Hero to your Kids

Book recommendation
How to be a Hero to your Kids
by Josh McDowell and Dick Day

(Information from the back cover)

 You Don't Have To 
Be A Superparent 
To Be A Hero
 To Your Kids!
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All it takes is
  • love, 
  • motivation, and a 
  • workable plan.
 Discover how Josh McDowell and Dick Day's six-point Biblically based "recipe" for positive parenting
can transform you into a real hero to your kids.

In How To Be A Hero To Your Kids you will learn how to demonstrate the kind of
  • compassion, 
  • character and 
  • onsistency 
that all adds up to being a positive role model.

You will find being a hero is
  • practical, 
  • fulfilling, and 
  • fun,
But most of all, it will build the kind of relationship with your kids that will equip them to live a 
  • fulfilled and 
  • abundant lives, 
even in a dangerous and hostile world. 
What else could any superparent want?


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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Needed: Heroes with a Plan for Positive Parenting

  1.You Can Con a Con, You can Fool a Fool, but You can't Kid a Kid.
  2. Don't Chance it, Plan It.
  3. Rules won't work without Relationships.

 
Part II. -  Acceptance: Builder of Security and Self Worth.

  4. If You Accept Them, They'll Accept Themselves.
  5. Acceptance: The Real Meaning of Proverbs 22:6.
  6. Acceptance Says, "You're Somebody Special"


Part III. -  Appreciation: The Key to Feeling Significant 

  7. Catch Them Doing Something Right.
  8. How Not to Grow a Perfectionist.

Part IV. -  Affection: Without it Children Can Perish.

  9. The Awesome Power of the Simple Hug.
  10. The Greatest Thing You Can do for Your Child.

Part V. -  Availability: Making Time to be a Hero.

11. Love is Spelled T-I-M-E.
12. How to "Hone In" on Your Kids.


Part VI.  - Accountability and Authority: How Limits Develop Self- Discipline and Self-Decisiveness 

  13. Accountable Parents Raise Accountable Kids.
  14. How Not to Drive Your Kids Crazy -- or Worse.

Final Thoughts: Never Stop Being a Hero!
Appendix: The Hero's Tool Box
Endnotes
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Thank you for reading my Blog.
God Bless You,
Ron

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