Parenting Ahead: Preparing Now for the Teen Years
Parenting Ahead helps parents with younger children build a foundation for their family based on biblical principles for the teen years to come. Readers will learn to practice redemptive parenting where their children grow to see the world through a gospel lens based on biblical truth.
As parents of young children anticipate the teen years, counselour 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 recognising the connection between behaviour 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.
“Parenting teens doesn’t start on your child’s thirteenth birthday. It starts on the day they are born. In a world where culture is catechising children and parents 24/7 into deformed notions of what it means to be human and what it means to parent effectively, Kristen Hatton offers up a hope-filled and biblically faithful corrective that helps parents understand the high calling and high privilege of nurturing our kids in the Christian faith. Thank you, Kristen, for helping us see what it means to parent with grace under God’s Word in today’s changing and confusing world!”
—Walt Mueller, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
Format: Paperback