Parenting with Heart, Stephen James
Parenting with Heart, Stephen James
List: $14.98 | Sale: $10.49
Club: $7.49

Parenting with Heart
How Imperfect Parents Can Raise Resilient, Loving, and Wise-Hearted Kids

Author: Stephen James, Chip Dodd

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2018

Synopsis

Parents want to be the best person they can for their children, but much of the time they may feel like giraffes on ice--clumsy, unprepared, and in imminent danger of going down. The good news is, our children don't need perfect parents. They need authentic, fully-hearted, relationally engaged parents who can mess up and move on more than parents who always get it right. In this freeing book, respected therapists and bestselling authors Stephen James and Chip Dodd invite parents to let go of perfectionism and micromanaging as they learn to parent from a place of emotional honesty and intimacy. Through their clinical experience and relatable true stories, they show parents that raising children to become capable, loving, and wise-hearted adults is far more about accepting our flaws than projecting an impossible standard to our children that we already know we can't live up to. Parents will learn how to resolve issues from their own childhoods, tune into their feelings and the emotions of their children, and be present with their families through both the best and worst of circumstances.

About Stephen James

Stephen James is a private practice psychotherapist in Nashville, Tennessee, where he provides individual, couples, and group therapy as well as organizational and leadership consulting. He received his MA in counseling from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and his BA in English from Belmont University. He has published numerous articles and has coauthored several books, including How to Hit a Curveball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on July 19, 2022

If you could only read two parenting books, I would recommend this one and Habits of the Household. Habits is all about grace-filled strategies for discipline your children. Parenting with Heart is all about getting beneath the surface to engage with your children as people, not machines who can be......more

Goodreads review by Aurelia on March 05, 2019

"When we begin to accept that clumsy is the best we get - like giraffes on ice - we can begin to offer what our children really need from us: heartfelt relationship." Doesn't that turn the typical parenting book on its head? This is not a what-to-do parenting book. First, this book addresses the pare......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on November 12, 2018

My husband and I recently attending a parenting seminar by Brett Ullman. During his talk he informed us that most parents read more books to plan a trip to Disney than they do about parenting. In a way I understand this. There are so many parenting books on the market today and most parents do not h......more

Goodreads review by Haley on May 22, 2022

I would definitely recommend this book. It’s very convicting in many areas and thought provoking. The exercises are great to go through and I want to keep this book around largely for those. The book is humbling and really reveals our need for God during parenting, because we truly can’t do it right......more

Goodreads review by Oak on November 01, 2018

Parenting with Heart: How Imperfect Parents Can Raise Resilient, Loving, and Wise-Hearted Kids is a helpful parenting book written by Stephen James and Chip Dodd. The authors are both professional counselors, and they provide practical parenting advice. Both authors use their own parenting experienc......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List