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Summary: What happened to a loving and forgiving God?
Review: I lost sleep after reading this book which step by step describes how to spank your children. As the mother of four amazing Christian children, I have always used consistent, yet respectable methods of discipline - time-out being top on my list. I have smacked a hand or swatted a rear-end when I feared their safety and felt that they needed a stronger and immediate understanding of that danger. After reading Tripp's suggestions of spanking your child every time they disobey you, I was horrified. He also suggests that these spankings begin when the child is just an infant - the example is when they resisit diaper change. Yes, God tells us to discipline our children. Yes, God tells us that our children they must obey us. But isn't our God a loving and forgiving God? I ask you what Jesus would say if he saw a mother spanking her 6 month old baby when resisting a diaper change. I think our hearts can give us that answer. For parents who are frustrated with a child's behavior, I do not suggest that you read this fundamentalist Christian view to discipline. This type of discipline only makes your child fear you and resent you. This type of discipline could also make you lose your children to the state. This is not Christian parenting at it's best - it truly horrifies me!!!
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Summary: Required Reading for Christian (and non) parents
Review: Tedd Tripp writes a lucid, thoughtful and encouraging piece. This book is well reasoned, well supported and well orgnized. Frankly, I could not put it down, which is saying a lot for me, a busy executive with an Internet Start-up. As a fairly new Christian, I found that the book really informed my method and mode of disicplining my two sons. I realized that I wasn't going it alone. Its not me against my son. My job is to act as God's agent and help my sons develop a godward orientation and understanding of the power of Jesus Christ's atoning death on the cross. If your a Christian or a seeker or just interested in how to have a fulfilling relationship with your children, this book is an outstanding and truly enjoyable read.
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Summary: Shepherding a Child's Heart
Review: Excellent resource for parents who want more than temporary bandaids to externally control a child's behavior. Parents and children encouraged to look within their heart to explore what motivates their behavior. This book really does attempt to get to the heart of the matter of raising up our kids! All too soon they will need to internally regulate their own behavior...hopefully through our parenting they have learned the value of submitting to parental authority and ultimately God's!
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Summary: I prayed as I read (and re-read) this book
Review: Reading this book prompted me to pray on a more consistant basis for my husband and me and for our children. Mr. Tripp doesn't offer a technique or set of rules. What he does in this remarkable book is exhort the parents to love and to know their children, and to lead them to the Cross. I found the book to be inspired. Reading it convicted me, and brought me to my kneas before the Lord. I can think of no higher compliment.
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Summary: This book will change your kids AND you!
Review: If you are a Christian parent and want help in applying Biblical standards to the area of parenting, look no further! Tedd Tripp goes beyond other Christian parenting methodologies (such as the Growing Kids God's Way series) to the heart of the child (through the heart of the parent!). If you want a comfortable, make-me-feel-good book, this is not for you. I felt convicted at least once (many times more often than that) each chapter. I took Growing Kids God's Way and later read this book, and even though I felt I had learned many things from the former, the latter truly discipled me. I pray that you will consider this book and that the Lord will bless your efforts to train up your child in the way he should go!
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Summary: Eye Opening
Review: I have read many books on child rearing, But never have I read one on changing the heart first. This book not only helped me get back in control as a parent, but it also opened my eyes to a lot of the problems in today world. My husband and I have applied what God gave us to use in the first place and again as always God is right and God is good.
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Summary: The best single book on parenting besides the Bible!
Review: I am a pediatrician with 21 years experience, and this is the book that I give young parents to provide them with the truth about raising children. It provides them with the proper world-view of parenting. It gives them a strategy that works, not pop psychology. Raising children is about influencing an eternal soul, created by God, it is not just changing behavior. Raising children is the most important job that a parent does, and 99% of parenting books totally miss the point, even many "Christian" parenting books, miss the point! I wish I would have had this book 25 years ago! Thank you Tedd Tripp for your ministry!
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Summary: Easy-to-read, biblically-based guide to discipline
Review: My husband and I are very impressed by this book. It is unlike anything else I've read because it is totally biblical, not just the opinion of a psychologist or doctor. I am a teacher with a Master's degree in Special Ed., currently enrolled in a Counseling Credential program, so I have an extensive background in child psychology. This approach is simply superior to anything else. I highly recommend this book for all Christian parents. I'm so thankful to have found it before my sons got any older (I have a toddler & a baby). The focus of this book is turning your child's heart toward Jesus, not on making your child conform to society's expectations. It is very challenging! I am buying 2 more copies to give to friends. I would love to see all Christian families use this book - what a difference it would make!
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Summary: very unique, biblical techniques
Review: I've read alot of ho-hum parenting books, but this one was very unique and truly shook up the way I think about raising my children. I have 2 children and I have been convicted about how wrong I have been doing alot of my parenting, and yet encouraged by how much I'm doing right! The strong-willed child is the area where we all need encouragement, and Tedd Tripp does an awsome job presenting truly biblical approaches to child-rearing! Bravo, Tedd!
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Summary: Not the last baby book I'll ever read
Review: There are two pretty extremely opposed camps out there, it seems, when it comes to Christian child-rearing, and interpreting the Bible. On the far end of the behavior mod spectrum is "Raising Kids God's Way," with many disciples. Then there are the extremely liberal "Do Whatever Your Heart Tells You" people (OK, I don't have any titles since I haven't gone there). This book brings quite a bit of good, solid Bibilical foundation to its approach. However, I found it to be lacking in how to practically attach to the child's heart. I preferred another book, "The Complete Book of Christian Parenting & Child Care : A Medical & Moral Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy Children" by Martha Sears and William Sears, M.D. However, this book recommends sparing the rod, and makes a very weak Biblical argument to that end (in fact, in quoting all the "disciplinary" versus, mostly from Proverbs, Sears ended up merely convincing me he was wrong). Despite this, Sears presents virtually the same approach towards spanking that Tripp does, but within a much more loving context. There is no doubt that both these books are written by committed Christians who have looked carefully to the scriptures for their guidance. Hey, this is just my read. But from my perspective, the Tripp book taken within the basic frameword of very deep and loving involvement described by Sears seems to me to address both the need for discipline, how to administer it, but the need mostly for involvement.
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