Parenting Ahead: Preparing Now for the Teen Years
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
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, 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.
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- Helps parents build a family foundation based on biblical principles for the teen years
- Teaches parents to practice redemptive parenting, viewing the world through a gospel lens
- Encourages parents to evaluate their parenting style and depend on God’s grace
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: A Persevering Perspective
- Chapter 1: Hold Fast
- Chapter 2: Hope Unfailing
- Part II: Parenting Pitfalls
- Chapter 3: Parenting Styles and Unintended Results
- Chapter 4: Idols—What Are They Good For?
- Chapter 5: God’s Word vs. the World’s
- Chapter 6: Stop Hurrying the Hurt
- Part III: A Redemptive Plan
- Chapter 7: Redemptive Living
- Chapter 8: Building a Foundation for Engaging the Heart
- Chapter 9: Building a Foundation for Redemptive Conversations
- Chapter 10: Family Rhythms
- Chapter 11: Growing in Grace
- Appendix A: The Redemptive Parenting Assessment
- Appendix B: Gospel-Centered Resources for Shepherding Your Children
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
As we navigate a complicated time in our world, parents need wise guides and trusted voices offering help and hope for the journey. Kristen brings the experience of a seasoned parent and the wisdom of a trusted counselor to this book. It is a needed resource.
—David Thomas, Therapist; bestselling author of Raising Emotionally Strong Boys and Are My Kids on Track?
While Kristen reminds us there is no perfect parenting formula, in Parenting Ahead she offers helpful perspective on what does and doesn’t matter on this journey. As a mom of three teens and one preteen, I appreciated her encouragement to keep a long-range mindset and to continue my efforts to intentionally connect and communicate God’s gospel love in our day-to-day family moments.
—Heather MacFadyen, Host of the Don’t Mom Alone podcast; author of Right Where You Belong
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 catechizing 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