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Some useful books to help with parenting which are generally available in Christian bookshops. A list of the local Christian bookshops is on the main Resources page.
“Parenting Isn’t for Cowards (The ‘You Can Do It’ Guide for Hassled Parents)” by Dr James Dobson – Customer Ratings: 
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Over 1 million copies sold. (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1403651.Parenting_Isn_t_for_Cowards) This proven confidence builder will help parents of even the most difficult children find the fulfilment parenthood was intended to bring. Speaking both as a therapist and as a parent— and drawing on a landmark study of 35,000 patients—Dr James Dobson helps parents: banish their guilt when kids are hard to raise, trouble proof their days when children are young, protect their sanity during a child’s adolescence, restore their energy when they’re facing burnout, enhance their relationships with their kids. No one said it was going to be easy but this confidence-building classic will help you experience the full joy of parenthood—and what may be the greatest sense of fulfilment you’ll ever know.
“How to Really Parent Your Child: Anticipating What a Child Needs Instead of Reacting to What a Child Does” by Robert Suggs and Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings:
With over thirty years of clinical psychiatric experience with children and their parents, Dr Campbell knows how profoundly a parent can influence a child. By anticipating the needs of a child rather than reacting to his or her behaviours, parents develop a relational rather than adversarial family structure. Mothers and fathers will find tools aimed to help them build a healthy relationship with their child that meets all four basic emotional needs: to be nurtured in unconditional love, to be lovingly disciplined, to be trained in anger management, and to be protected from harmful influences. It is after these basic needs are met that a child will be able to understand and respond to spiritual matters. Combining practical advice with anecdotal examples, Dr Campbell offers a purposeful, life-long approach to building happy, healthy and spiritual children.
“How To Really Love Your Child” by Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings:
Sold over 2 million copies since being published in 1977 and has been translated in over 40 languages. Revised and updated in 2004. (http://www.mtmfoundation.org/about-us/awards/dr-donald-ross-campbell-psychiatrist/) Many parents would be dismayed to discover that their child feels unloved. After all, they make sure that their child has the things they need. They attend their child’s school events. They buy their child the things they want. So why is it then that most children doubt that they are genuinely and unconditionally loved? In this best-selling book, Dr Ross Campbell reveals the emotional needs of a child and provides parents with the skill and techniques that can begin to help make your child feel truly loved and accepted. You’ll learn to really love your child through every situation of child rearing from physical touch to discipline and from affirmation to spiritual nurture.
“How To Really Love Your Angry Child“ by Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings:
Few things in life are as important as raising our children. But sometimes, even when you do your best, you find that you need help addressing your child’s anger–and, as a result, your own anger. If this is your situation–there is real cause for hope! In this breakthrough book, Dr Ross Campbell helps both you and your child deal with this little understood emotion. You’ll learn the stages of a child’s life and how anger manifests itself at each juncture. And you’ll learn the practical steps to take when you face it in your home.
“Building Confidence in Your Child” by Dr James Dobson – Customer Ratings:
Sold more than 1 million copies! Proven ways to improve your child’s self-esteem. A solid sense of self-worth helps your child make good choices, develop healthy relationships, and work to achieve his or her dreams. But what’s the best way to instil self-confidence while still teaching your child to value and care about others? Based on a biblical understanding of human worth, this book teaches you how to parent positively to help your child grow into a secure adult who is poised for success in life. Deftly balancing the principles of humility and pride, this parenting expert Dr James Dobson offers practical pointers that break through the theories and get right down to the decisions you have to make every day
“The New Strong-Willed Child” by Dr James Dobson – Customer Ratings:
A rewrite of the original 1978 version that sold nearly 3 million copies. (http://www.ag.org/pentecostal-evangel/conversations2005/4731_dobson.cfm) Is a wilful little darling driving you to distraction? The New Strong-Willed Child is a classic bestseller completely rewritten, updated, and expanded for a new generation of parents and teachers. Challenging as they are to raise, strong-willed children can grow up to be men and women of strong character if lovingly guided with understanding and the right kind of discipline. Find out what Dr James Dobson, a well trusted authority on parenting, has to say about what makes strong-willed children the way they are; shaping the will while protecting the spirit; avoiding the most common parenting mistake; and much more. If you are struggling to raise and teach children who are convinced they should be able to live by their own rules, The New Strong-Willed Child is a must-read!
“The New Dare To Discipline” by Dr James Dobson – Customer Ratings: and
‘Sold over 4.5 million copies since its release in 1970. Dare To Discipline, was selected as one of 50 books to be rebound and placed in the White House Library.’ (http://www.indwes.edu/about/world-changers/dobson/) Much-needed answers to your toughest parenting questions! Why are boundaries so important? Do children really want limits set on their behaviour? My spouse doesn’t seem to care about discipline; why I am I stuck being the “bad guy?” Is it okay to spank my child, or will it lead him to hit others and become a violent person? Join the millions of caring parents who have found answers in the wisdom of this parenting authority and family counsellor Dr James Dobson. The New Dare to Discipline is a revised and updated edition of the classic bestseller, designed to help you lead your children through the tough job of growing up. This practical, reassuring guide will teach you how to meet your children’s needs of love, trust, affection and discipline.
“Kids who Follow, Kids Who Don’t” (Previously called “How to Really Know Your Child”) by Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings: 1st title and 2nd title
There will be many challenges we face as parents and we should always be perceptive, listen well and, above all else, model the lifestyle we want our children to follow. We must let our children express their feelings and not become hostile when they express anger or sorrow or moodiness. Dr Campbell feels that the “spare the rod and spoil the child” philosophy is another frustrated way to assume control rather than to take charge. He recommends “time-outs” and more appropriate and effective ways of discipline. As children see and feel acceptance, understanding and love from their earthly parents, they are more likely to believe the same about God the Father, who could become their heavenly parent. Dr Campbell recommends parenting with a strong Christian faith and sharing and teaching that faith to our children.
“How To Really Love Your Child/How To Really Know Your Child” (2in1) by Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings: The internationally acclaimed bestseller “How to Really Love Your Child” and the companion title “How to Really Know Your Child” in one volume. Dr Campbell, an internationally known child psychiatrist, emphasizes the importance of developing the child as a whole individual, rather than concentrating on the spiritual side and expecting everything else to fall into place. This omnibus provides parents with the skills they need to help their child develop emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, to identify their child’s unique character and to know what they are like as a parent.
“The 5 Love Languages of Children” by Dr Gary Chapman and Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings:
Sometimes your child wants your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are grateful and affectionate, and other times they seem totally indifferent. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved? This 1992 best-selling book The 5 Love Languages has helped millions of couples develop stronger, more fulfilling relationships by teaching them to speak each others’ love language. Each child, too, expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. And your love language may be totally different from that of your child. While you are doing all you can to show your child love, he may be hearing it as something completely opposite. Discover your child’s primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child’s emotions and behaviour.
“Bringing Up Boys” by Dr James Dobson – Customer Ratings:
Sold over 2 million copies. 2002 Gold Medallion Award winner! (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/july/17.31.html ) With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it’s no wonder so many parents and teachers are at a loss about how to bring up boys. Our culture has vilified masculinity and, as a result, boys are suffering. Parents, teachers, and others involved in shaping the character of boys have many questions. In Bringing Up Boys, Dr James Dobson, a very trusted authority on family issues, tackles these questions and offers advice and encouragement based on a firm foundation of Biblical principles. It is a must-read book for parents, teachers, social workers, youth leaders, counselors, in fact anyone involved in the challenge of turning boys into good men.
“Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women” by Dr James Dobson – Customer Ratings: and
2011 Retailers Choice Award winner! This is based on extensive research, and handled with Dr Dobson’s usual down-to-earth approach. It will equip parents like you to face the challenges of raising your daughters to become healthy, happy, and successful women who overcome challenges specific to girls and women today and who ultimately excel in life.
“How To Really Love Your Teen\Teenager” by Dr Ross Campbell – Customer Ratings:
Gold Medallion Award winner! (stated often but no year given) It’s one of the most common parenting scenarios: parent and child are developing nicely, but then the child crosses that mysterious threshold into the “teenager zone.” Suddenly, the parents feel unable to fully relate to their teen–and the teen responds to the parents’ uneasiness. In this best-selling book, Dr Campbell helps parents understanding the delicate dance between parents and their emerging teenagers. Learn how to create a solid, balanced approach for relating to your teen, how to communicate unconditional love, how to handle teenage anger, as well as your own, and how to help your teenager grow intellectually and spiritually.
“Preparing for Adolescence: How to Survive the Coming Years of Change” by Dr James Dobson and written for teenagers. Customer Ratings:
This book has many good points. It is recommended that you read it for yourself before considering passing to your teenager. …… What do you say to an adolescent who’s getting ready to enter those turbulent teenage years? Dr James Dobson, one of America’s leading family psychologists, knows how to speak directly and sincerely to today’s adolescents about the topics that trouble them most. Topics include avoiding feelings of inferiority, handling peer pressure, drug abuse, puberty, sexual development, menstruation, masturbation, romantic love, overcoming discouragement, sound decision-making and handling independence.
“How To Really Love Your Grandchild” by Dr Ross Campbell Customer Ratings:
Offers invaluable help and encouragement for all grandparents as they attempt to counter the unhealthy influences of our day and help provide direction and influence for their grandchildren. Topics covered include: helping your children in parenting, distance grandparenting, parenting grand children, training children in anger management, making a critical difference in the area of discipline, giving grandchildren the love and security they crave, special needs grandchildren and leaving a legacy of faith.
“Where is God When a Child Suffers” by Penny Giesbrecht – Customer Ratings:
Penny and Tim Giesbrecht naively believed that bad things couldn’t happen to good Christians. Until their “perfect” baby began exhibiting such strange behaviour that “it seemed the Jeremy we knew had died.” Two years of painful tests brought no answers. Then Jeremy was severely burned. As he screamed in pain, his mother cried, “Dear God, where are you?” In her much sought-after book, which was first published in 1988 and re-released in 2005, Penny Giesbrecht explores the feeling a parent in such situations experiences and also Scripture admonitions and teachings about suffering.
“Every five or ten years a really good book comes along on suffering. C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain, and Phillip Yancey’s Where Is God When It Hurts? are classics. Penny Giesbrecht’s Where Is God When a Child Suffers? is the book for now . . . How I wish there had been a book like this when my wife, Pat, and I were suffering with our daughter Kathy . . . when we couldn’t understand. . . . Here are two wonderful, Christ-loving, Bible-believing Christian parents faced with some of the most awesome problems about life . . . How Penny . . . puts things together is really outstanding.” — Ross Campbell, M.D., child raising author
They are available in Christian Bookshops generally and the more local shops are listed below.
The following book is out of print but is available at least at Amazon:-
“The Effective Father” by Gordon MacDonald – Customer Ratings: and
Drawing heavily on his pastoral counselling experiences and his own family life, Gordon MacDonald presents this practical study of effective fatherhood, which aims to be of use to men who are responsible for the rearing of children. The author identifies biblical principles that mark the difference between being a male parent and being a responsible and effective father.
Talking with Your Kids about God – 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Customer Ratings:
Christian parenting is hard work–and it’s getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith, but fear that today’s increasingly skeptical and hostile world could lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. That leaves many parents feeling overwhelmed–uncertain of what they can do to help their children, given the difficulty and extent of the faith challenges they will face. This practical and timely resource gives parents the confidence of knowing what to discuss with their children and how to discuss it in order to facilitate impactful conversations that will form the basis of a lifelong faith. In a friendly, parent-to-parent voice, Natasha Crain identifies 30 specific conversations about God that parents must have with their children, organizing them under the categories of – the existence of God – science and God – the nature of God – believing in God – the difference God makes. Chapters are sequenced in a curriculum-oriented way, making this book a flexible resource for use in different settings.
The following two articles were written in response to requests about explaining death to a child: