Contents
Foreword 7
Acknowledgments 9
Dedication 10
“I don’t want my kids hating God because of me.” 11
1 God has No Grandchildren 19
2 Avoid the Jelly-Mould Syndrome 31
3 Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff 38
4 Create a Sense of Belonging 46
5 Over-busyness 59
6 Cynicism 66
7 Hypocrisy 73
8 Judgmentalism 79
9 Overfamiliarity 92
10 Get Them Ready for Disappointment with Others 101
11 Get Them Ready for Disappointment with Themselves 110
12 Get Them Ready for Disappointment with God 119
13 Get Them Ready for the Real World 133
14 Give Them a Vision 145
A Final Word 151
Notes 153
Afterword 156
How to raise kids with a healthy view of Christians, the church, themselves and God.
Rob Parsons is an international speaker on family life and business anda best-selling author. Each year he addresses thousands of people in live seminars, as well as on radio, television and film. In 1988 Rob founded 'Care for the Family', a charitable organisation which aims to promotestrong family life and help those hurting because of family breakdown.Since it first began over 320,000 people have attended family-building events and courses run by the charity and thousands more families find support through its resources and other initiatives. Rob is particularly passionate about helping parents relate to their children, particularly their teenagers. His writing on this topic often reflects what he considers are areas where he feels he could have done better in the fatherhooddepartment. Rob's books include 'The Sixty Minute Family', 'Getting YourKids Through Church' and 'The Heart of Success', which reached Number 1in the Booktrack Business & Management List and Number 2 in The SundayTimes Business Books List. More than half a million copies of his bookshave been sold worldwide in 12 languages. Rob and his wife Dianne live in Cardiff and have been married for 37 years. They have two grown up children.
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