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Summary: An answer to your prayers!
Review: Pastor Lutton presents a clear, concise, and obviously well-researched volume of incredibly helpful, truly Biblically-based discipline techniques that will honestly change your family's life. This is not a pick-and-choose, permissive guide to raising your child; rather, it's a well documented, easy-to-read and comprehensive manual for what the author beautifully terms "Grace Based Discipline". Biblical Parenting offers firm yet loving discipline tools with the Scripture to back them up and help you in your own personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you have been looking for a Biblically sound way to restore your relationship with your child, if you just want to gain more effective parenting tools, if you need concrete evidence and Scripture to quote to others who are questioning your parenting style...this is the book you've been searching for. Pastor Lutton has a wonderfully relaxed style of writing - I found myself reading the slim 144 pages of text within one evening and feeling like I'd just had a warm chat with a good Christian friend and mentor. Her tools are immediately effective, easy to remember, and most important of all - Biblically based. Thank you, Pastor Lutton, for the book that will be my first baby shower gift when some faraway day, I get to enjoy the blessings of becoming a Grandmother.
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Summary: It is about TIME!
Review: Thank God for people like Crystal Lutton who can look beyond the traditions of man and see through to the heart of God concerning parenting by the BOOK (meaning God's book). I struggled for many years,following the prescribed so called "Biblical" methods of punishment before learning the truth of Grace Based Discipline! If you think it is Biblical to punish your children, but something in your spirit tells you otherwise, then Crystal's book is the book for you! Crystal's book gives suggestions for developing family goals and a family motto, information about why the "rod" verses are not synonomous with spanking, practical tools for teaching and modelling Godly behavior (such as the 5 steps, comfort corner, conflict resolution, 1,2,3, transistion, and reflecting feelings among others), and she thoroughly describes how God parents us and models parenting for us as well. I am so excited to finally have a book that I have no reservations about so that I can give it to parents who are badly in need of a departure from the bullying and controlling mindset of law based parenting! This is 144 pages of the best parenting information I have ever read and I have read A LOT!!
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Summary: Best Parenting Book I've read
Review: This book gives both a general philosophy on Biblical parenting as well as wonderful practical discipline ideas. Crystal teaches how to assert your athority as parent while maintaining a loving, grace-filled relationship with your child. As opposed to rigid structure and unrealistic expectations that drive a wedge between parent and child (as those that are taught in books by Ezzo and Pearl), Crystal teaches how to be a grace based parent without being permissive.
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Summary: gentle discipline does not equal permissiveness!
Review: This book has been a wonderful help to my son and me! Crystal's tools for positive discipline have provided me with the knowledge I needed to discipline in a wise way. I was raised in a spanking family and didn't know any other way to correct behavior. Now we use the Five Steps all the time, and other moms are amazed to see how it almost eliminates power struggles. This is an excellent counterpoint to people like James Dobson who believe that refusal to obey immediately in a toddler should be answered with spanking. There is another way, and while Grace Based Discipline is gentle and non-punitive, it is also very effective and not at all permissive. Thank you, Crystal!
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Summary: Simply the very best book on discipline and parenting
Review: This book is an absolute must have for every parent! Pastor Lutton is a well researched, very experienced person and this book is a reflection of that.
It is easy to read and provides the most valuble and important advice I have yet seen in a book on the subject.
As a Christian mother I am pleased to have this book in my home and apply it to our daily lives. Buy this book!
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Summary: As absolutely wonderful book!
Review: This book is great! I enjoyed reading about what the Bible really says about disciplining our children. This book makes it clear how God expects us to deal with our children - with grace.
Mrs. Lutton gives realistic advice about how to deal with everything from upset children to temper tantrums. I think this book and The Discipline book by Dr. Sears should be read by all parents who want to form an effective discipline strategy for their family.
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Summary: Where was this book when my children were little?
Review: This book provides amazing insight into the relationship that exists between God (as a Parent)...parents (as God's child and their child's parent)...and children. With techniques that seem so simple, yet are definitely right on target...Pastor Lutton backs up her ideas with well researched references! If my wife and I had been fortunate eneough to have this book available when our children were young...it would have made raising our children so much easier and productive. As it was, we struggled like most young parents and kept receiving conflicting guidance depending on who we spoke with. The Bible is very clear when it instructs women to teach women regarding loving their husbands and children, and even though there are many practical and valuable lessons to be learned from Proverbs...it is important to keep things in perspective as to who is instructing and who is receiving instruction. Without the clarification provided by Pastor Lutton concerning "The Rod" and other seemingly punitive verses it would be easy to use the wrong methods in child raising, much to your sorrow. This book should be in every home where children (or grandchildren) are being raised. Prospective parents need to make this one of their first priorities when starting their parenting library.
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Summary: Great for parents who don't want to spank!
Review: Yes! Crystal Lutton hits the spot here! I began spanking with my second child (strong-willed girl!), backing up my decision with bible verses that talk about using a "rod" for discipline, but it just never felt...right. Crystal's book goes into GREAT detail about how the Bible isn't literally commanding that we "beat" our kids with a "rod" (spank), but that we are to be a constant presence of authority in their lives. She also explains how with infants, ALL needs/wants should be met; with toddlers, you teach; with a "child" you correct, and then as they get even older you work up to allowing natural consequences to occur (within a safe limit). Her creative tools (ideas) for this concept are excellent, and I look forward to implementing them with my three blessings.
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Summary: Great for parents who don't want to spank!
Review: Yes! Crystal Lutton hits the spot here! I began spanking with my second child (strong-willed girl!), backing up my decision with bible verses that talk about using a "rod" for discipline, but it just never felt...right. Crystal's book goes into GREAT detail about how the Bible isn't literally commanding that we "beat" our kids with a "rod" (spank), but that we are to be a constant presence of authority in their lives. She also explains how with infants, ALL needs/wants should be met; with toddlers, you teach; with a "child" you correct, and then as they get even older you work up to allowing natural consequences to occur (within a safe limit). Her creative tools (ideas) for this concept are excellent, and I look forward to implementing them with my three blessings.
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