Losing Control and Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free
Parents of teens—especially Christian ones—know only too well that many sons and daughters abandon the “straight and narrow” when they hit adulthood. The pressure on these parents to make their kids turn out right is enormous. Sometimes this pressure can lead parents to think they have to control their kids. Losing Control and Liking It offers parents relief of a burden they were never meant to carry and will help build family relationships based on validation and nurturing instead of control.
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Losing Control and Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free
Parents of teens—especially Christian ones—know only too well that many sons and daughters abandon the “straight and narrow” when they hit adulthood. The pressure on these parents to make their kids turn out right is enormous. Sometimes this pressure can lead parents to think they have to control their kids. Losing Control and Liking It offers parents relief of a burden they were never meant to carry and will help build family relationships based on validation and nurturing instead of control.
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Losing Control and Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free

Losing Control and Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free

by Tim Sanford
Losing Control and Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free

Losing Control and Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free

by Tim Sanford

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Overview

Parents of teens—especially Christian ones—know only too well that many sons and daughters abandon the “straight and narrow” when they hit adulthood. The pressure on these parents to make their kids turn out right is enormous. Sometimes this pressure can lead parents to think they have to control their kids. Losing Control and Liking It offers parents relief of a burden they were never meant to carry and will help build family relationships based on validation and nurturing instead of control.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781589974814
Publisher: Focus on the Family
Publication date: 01/01/2009
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Getting Too Much of a Grip

1 Control: It's Not Your Department 7

2 The Real Job of Parenting 21

3 Why Teens (and Parents) Go Out of Control 35

4 Free Will: "You Have the Right to Remain Stupid" 45

Part II Control and Your Goal

5 HOLDers, TOSSers, GRABers, and FOLDers 59

6 Three Habits of Highly Controlling People 75

Part III Turning off the Power Struggle

7 Dances of Influence 91

8 Rules of Engagement 103

9 When They Make You So Mad (and Vice Versa) 121

10 Intervention: When You Have to Step In 129

11 "But I'm 18!" 147

12 Bringing It All Home 167

Notes 179

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