"[The authors] reveal [with Christian ideas] how you can truly reach your child's heart to teach, train, and build a tremendous relationship."--Page 4 of cover.;What is the heart? (pt. 1) -- What is the heart? (pt. 2) -- Will I or won't I? -- Do it like you mean it -- Emotions have feelings too -- Turn on their heart lights -- Avoiding congestive heart failure -- Making the connection -- Talking to yourself -- Teaching your child's heart -- Meditation management -- A light on the path to heart change -- Constructive correction -- Turn around for a change -- Defibrillating your child's heart -- Cross your heart. If you're like most parents, you have developed your own parenting strategy#8212;sometimes it seems to work, and other times#8212;based on the way your child behaves#8212;you wonder if it's working at all. There are countless ways to try to get a child's attention and to effect change#8212;but here's the truth#8212;unless you deal with a child through his or her heart, you are not likely to see lasting change. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, reveal how you can learn to truly reach your child's heart to teach, train, and build a tremendous relationship. Parenting is Heart Work gives you the practical tools an easy-to-follow steps that will revolutionize how you: Turn Correction times into learning experiences. Equip your children to accept responsibility for their mistakes and meditate on the right things. Influence and adjust the values and beliefs your children hold. Maintain relationship with your children through love and emotional connectedness Using the Bible as the key resource, this book identifies strategies for parents that go deeper than simply looking at behavior. In fact, reward/punishment models are seen as self defeating in many children because they appeal to a child's selfishness. Recognizing that desires, emotions, and beliefs exist in the heart, gives parents more strategies to bring about change. Practical suggestions make this parenting book relevant, containing many illustrations and suggestions for working with children ages 3-18. Are you ready to start doing the "heart" work of parenting and to see amazing transformation in your child's life? This book will give you practical tools and easy-to-follow steps to do so.
