The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids:

Are you a big softy when it comes to parenting would you like to raise your child to become an independent hard-working, and God-honoring adult? Then you need to be mean. The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids encourages overly nice "marsh-mallow" moms to instill a few much-needed boundaries. From sibling rivalry to entitlement, from faith to Facebook, discover how to parent when it's hard. Find ways to instill respect in your child and learn to stand your ground when your child doesn't like you for it. A mean mom keeps her word when it's difficult, knows her child's friends and where they live, and can tread water longer than her kids can make it rain. She encourages openly, loves passionately, and knows being called mean is oftentimes a compliment.

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The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids:

Are you a big softy when it comes to parenting would you like to raise your child to become an independent hard-working, and God-honoring adult? Then you need to be mean. The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids encourages overly nice "marsh-mallow" moms to instill a few much-needed boundaries. From sibling rivalry to entitlement, from faith to Facebook, discover how to parent when it's hard. Find ways to instill respect in your child and learn to stand your ground when your child doesn't like you for it. A mean mom keeps her word when it's difficult, knows her child's friends and where they live, and can tread water longer than her kids can make it rain. She encourages openly, loves passionately, and knows being called mean is oftentimes a compliment.

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The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids:

The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids:

by Joanne Kraft
The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids:

The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids:

by Joanne Kraft

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Overview

Are you a big softy when it comes to parenting would you like to raise your child to become an independent hard-working, and God-honoring adult? Then you need to be mean. The Mean Mom's Guide to Raising Great Kids encourages overly nice "marsh-mallow" moms to instill a few much-needed boundaries. From sibling rivalry to entitlement, from faith to Facebook, discover how to parent when it's hard. Find ways to instill respect in your child and learn to stand your ground when your child doesn't like you for it. A mean mom keeps her word when it's difficult, knows her child's friends and where they live, and can tread water longer than her kids can make it rain. She encourages openly, loves passionately, and knows being called mean is oftentimes a compliment.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780891124429
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2015
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue 11

Part 1 The Making of a Mean Mom

1 Are You a Mean Mom? 15

2 Mean Moms Were Marshmallow Moms 23

3 Mean Moms Walk by Faith 35

4 Mean Moms Put Marriage First 47

5 Mean Moms Pray 57

Part 2 Mean Moms and Munchkins

6 Mean Moms Model Honor 69

7 Mean Moms Don't Take Sides 83

8 Mean Moms Make em Work 95

9 Mean Moms Use Their Words 107

10 Mean Moms Say No to TV 117

Part 3 Mean Moms and Minivans

11 Mean Moms Slay Goliath 131

12 Mean Moms Don't Speak the Language of Busy 143

13 Mean Moms Mean Business 155

14 Mean Moms Embrace Failure 167

15 Mean Moms Rule Technology 177

Part 4 Mean Moms and Motrin

16 Mean Moms Talk Purity 195

17 Mean Moms Drag Kids to Church 209

18 Mean Moms Eradicate Entitlement 219

19 Mean Moms Friend Their Teens 233

20 Mean Moms Focus on the Future 245

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