Parenting Ahead: Preparing Now for the Teen Years
As parents of young children anticipate the teen years, counselor Kristen Hatton helps them lay the groundwork so that having honest conversations, setting reasonable limits, and exploring issues of the heart will prepare them and their children for the next stage. Hatton helps moms and dads make the connection between their current parenting and future outcomes. By evaluating their parenting, they will see where their own fears, desires, and insecurities lie and how to pivot to practices of faith and trust in God. Proactive, long-haul parenting will help parents and children be better prepared for engaging in the realities of peer pressure, decision-making, and recognizing the connection between behavior and the heart.
• Evaluate your parenting style to identify whether you are under- or over-parenting.
• Discover practical strategies for redemptive parenting and living out the gospel of grace in your home.
• Encouragement to take wise, faithful steps while depending on God’s grace for parenting mistakes and failures.
Publisher: New Growth Press
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781645072782
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Kristen Hatton is a counselor and author passionate about helping families. She lives with her pastor-husband, Pete, in Dallas, Texas. Together they have three young adult children and a son-in-law. Kristen is the author of Get Your Story Straight, Face Time, The Gospel-Centered Life in Exodus for Students, and Parenting Ahead.
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“Biblical parenting in today’s culture requires a new level of awareness, thoughtfulness, and education. Backed by Scripture and counseling experience, Parenting Ahead offers parents practical ideas and principles that have the power to transform families from the inside out. The discussion on over and under parenting alone is worth the cost of the book. If you want to be a solid, healthy parent to your preteens and teens, this book is a must-read.” Krista Gilbert, Life coach; author of Reclaiming Home; cohost of The Open Door Sisterhood podcast