3. Ask yourself, “Whose problem is this?” (Don’t own what isn’t yours.)
2. Don’t think the misbehavior will go away.
1. Keep a happy face on, even when you want to . . . do something else.
Notes
1. Anne Ortlund, Children Are Wet Cement (Backinprint.com, 2002).
2. “Mountain or Molehill?” quiz answers
“Mountain or Molehill?”
*Randy—molehill
*Jennifer—molehill
*Sam—mountain
*Mandy—mountain
3. The points for these three types of parents are taken from Dr. Kevin Leman, Making Children Mind without Losing Yours (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2000), 127.
4. J. Neusner, quoted in Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr., “As Undergraduates Recommence Their Efforts,” Forbes, October 1981.
Their Efforts,”
5. “Facts Every Parent Should Know,” Max homepage, http://www.max.com/site/maxprotect.shtml.
6. Donna Rice Hughes, Enough Is Enough homepage, http://www.enough.org (accessed August 20, 2007).
7. Ibid. For further information and valuable resources, go to http://www.protectkids.com.
8. Luke 15:11–32.
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Books for Adults
The Birth Order Book
Sheet Music
Making Children Mind without Losing Yours
Sex Begins in the Kitchen
What Your Childhood Memories Say About You
Running the Rapids
What a Difference a Daddy Makes
The Way of the Shepherd (written with William Pentak)
Home Court Advantage
Becoming the Parent God Wants You to Be
Becoming a Couple of Promise
A Chicken’s Guide to Talking Turkey with Your Kids about Sex (written with Kathy Flores Bell)
First-Time Mom
Keeping Your Family Strong in a World Gone Wrong
Step-parenting 101
The Perfect Match
Be Your Own Shrink
Say Good-bye to Stress
Single Parenting That Works
When Your Best Isn’t Good Enough
Pleasers
Books for Children, with Kevin Leman II
My Middle Child, There’s No One Like You
My Youngest, There’s No One Like You
My Only Child, There’s No One Like You
My Adopted Child, There’s No One Like You
DVD/Video Series
Making Children Mind without Losing Yours (Christian—parenting edition)
Making Children Mind without Losing Yours (Mainstream—public-school teacher edition)
Value-Packed Parenting
Making the Most of Marriage
Running the Rapids
Single Parenting That Works
Bringing Peace and Harmony to the Blended Family
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