Romancing Your Child's Heart (Second Edition)

by Monte Swan, David B Biebel (With)

Overview

An avid reader and homeschooler wrote, in her review published on Amazon.com: "The wisdom, life, humor and joy that pour through each page of 'Romancing Your Child's Heart' has revitalized and inspired our home . . . for Monte's passion for Jesus is real and extremely contagious! It's so clear
in these chapters that the One Who captured this author's heart has also given him the burning desire to share the reality of this Divine Drama with his own children . . . and also with us. I am so grateful for that, and confident that this book will shine a whole new light on the high honor we have of introducing our children to the Author of what Monte calls 'the original Love Story.'"

"If out of all the multitudinous books on parenting out there, we were told that parents could choose
but one--this would be the one."
JOE L. WHEELER, PhD-Great Stories editor, Focus on the Family

"I can tell you without reservation--this is a book you ought to read. . . . Romancing Your Child's
Heart will make you a better spouse, friend, brother, sister, and most of all a better parent."
TEDD TRIPP, PhD-Pastor and author of Shepherding a Child' Heart

The fresh vision of parenting in "Romancing Your Child's Heart," based on relationship, not rules,
is modeled after the original love story--the gospel of Jesus Christ. Here you'll find the courage
and passion, through the biblical concept of romance, to be an instrument of the Holy Spirit in
turning the desire of your child's heart to God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939267566
Publisher:	Healthy Life Press, LLC
Publication date:	11/19/2015
Edition description:	(Second Edition) ed.
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Prologue: Straight and True . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Part One: Romancing Your Child: The Vision
1. Once upon a Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2. Finding the Silver Bullet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3. Living the Larger Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4. The Dynamics of Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5. Out-Romancing the Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6. The Watershed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Part Two: Romancing Your Child: The Strategy
7. Requirements for Romance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8. Parental Incarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
9. Profile of a Romancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
10. Methods for Romancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
11. The Sense of Wonder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
12. The Creative Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
13. Creative Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Epilogue: High and Far . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

What People are Saying About This

Dennis Rainey

What a great book! Monte has captured the essence of loving your children in ways that draw them to the Lord. His parent's wonderful marriage, his childhood, and the raising of his children were filled with great examples to teach me how I can woo my children into a love relationship that points to them to Christ. (Dennis Rainey—Executive Director of Family Life (a division of Campus Crusade for Christ)

Ted Tripp

I can tell you without reservation, this is a book that you ought to read. In an era when child rearing has been reduced to childcare, Swan has written wisely and well on the lost art of nurturing children. This book emphasizes being an influence in wooing and winning your children. Romancing Your Child's Heart will make you a better spouse, friend, brother, sister, and most of all a better parent. (Ted Tripp—Pastor, Speaker & Author of Shepherding a Child's Heart)

Editorial Reviews

"What a great book! Monte has captured the essence of loving your children in ways that draw them to the Lord. His parents' wonderful marriage, his childhood, and the raising of his children were filled with great examples to teach me how I can woo my children into a love relationship that points them to Christ."
--Dennis Rainey, Executive Director of FamilyLife Ministries

"Monte Swan has written wisely and well on the lost art of nurturing children. This book focuses on authority that is kind, whose easy yoke and light burden bring rest to the soul. Romancing Your Child's Heart will make you a better spouse, friend, brother, sister, and most of all a better parent."
--Tedd Tripp, PhD, pastor and author of SHEPHERDING A CHILD'SHEART

"Romancing Your Child's Heart provides a refreshing reminder that the consistent administration of pure love to a child's heart is still the key to real success in parenting."
--Dallas Holm, award-winning recording artist and songwriter

"If out of all the multitudinous books on parenting out there, we were told that parents could choose but one-this would be the one. Were all new parents to read it, America would be a different place. I just wish I could have read it forty years ago! How many things I would have done differently!"
--Joe L. Wheeler, PhD, Great Stories editor for Focus on the Family

"This book is the first incision for a parental pharisee-ectomy. As parents, we are so often frightened into judging our children by exterior standards and timetables that we forget that they are a treasure from God and they are okay just the way He has formed them. Monte dares us to love and enjoy our children with all the freedom and wide-open spaces that Christ has called us to live in."
--Katherine Bell von Duyke, PhD, mother of ten

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