Did you know that over 75,000 books have been written on parenting?
That's a lot of information out there for dads and moms.
And if you're like most parents, you won't have the time nor interest to read even a tiny fraction of all those books.
Author George Barna, a dad himself with two daughters, and a well-known Christian pollster and researcher, recently published a new book on parenting with a very unique twist:
"To amass a body of knowledge that could be absorbed and applied by all parents to help them maximize their parenting potential."
Sounds very worthwhile, doesn't it? After all, what parent doesn't want to maximize their parenting potential?!!
But to write such a book, Barna's team had to gather specific data from three sources:
1. Telephone surveys nationwide of parents with children under the age of 18. The parents were asked about their challenges, successes, and failures as parents.
2. Existing books on parenting practices, particularly those with a spiritual dimension. Those elements that were identified as significant were studied more closely.
3. Personal interviews of more than ten thousand (yes, 10,000!) young adults in their twenties who were leading "transformed" lives with genuine, mature faith (not merely church attenders.)
These young adults were asked what happened during their formative years that "worked."
Their parents were then interviewed for their input on upbringing these children.
The results of this research are all laid out in this concise, timely book by George Barna called "Revolutionary Parenting."
In the book, Barna starts with a look at the current crisis in American parenting, specifically as it relates to raising children with a Biblical worldview and an understanding of spiritual matters.
The next section... which is the bulk of the book... summarizes the parenting research that his team did.
The final section closes with a very personal chapter called "How Studying Revolutionary Parenting Changed Me" in which Barna talks about ten specific lessons he learned from his research that has impacted his own parenting of his two daughters, and he shares all this with the reader. "This is one of the few books every Christian parent must read! Great book!!! Wish it had been around years ago! If you are a new parent or even if your kids are already teens-- you need this book. It is short: a fast, easy, but meaningful read."
- Reader in Indiana
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Table of Contents Part I: Reasons
A Crisis in American Parenting Part II: Research
Conditions for Revolutionary Success
Revolutionary Parents Put First Things First
Revolutionary Planning for Spiritual Champions
The Rules of Revolutionary Engagement
How Revolutionary Parents Behave
A Revolutionary Faith
Training Up Spiritual Champions Part III: Relevance
The Bible's Revolutionary Parenting Rules
How Studying Revolutionary Parenting Changed Me Book Details Hardback: 192 pages
Publisher: Barna Publishers, 2007
ISBN-10: 1414307608
ISBN-13: 978-1414307602 |
