Why I Didn't Rebel: A Twenty-Two-Year-Old Explains Why She Stayed on the Straight and Narrow---and How Your Kids Can Too

by Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach

Overview

In this unique combination of personal history, interviews, and social science, a young millennial shares surprising reasons that youthful rebellion isn’t inevitable and points the way for raising healthy, grounded children who love God.

Teen rebellion is seen as a cultural norm, but Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach begs to differ. In Why I Didn’t Rebel—based on a viral blog post that has been read by more than 750,000 people—Lindenbach shows how rebellion is neither unavoidable nor completely understood. Based on interviews with her peers and combining the latest research in psychology and social science with stories from her own life, she gives parents a new paradigm for raising kids who don’t go off the rails.

Rather than provide step-by-step instructions on how to construct the perfect family, Lindenbach tells her own story and the stories of others as examples of what went right, inviting readers to think differently about parenting. Addressing hot-button issues such as courtship, the purity movement, and spanking—and revealing how some widely—held beliefs in the Christian community may not actually help children—Why I Didn’t Rebel provides an utterly unique, eye-opening vision for raising kids who follow God rather than the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780718090005
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	670,917
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach is a writer, blogger, and psychology graduate from Ottawa, Canada. The daughter of blogger and author Sheila Wray Gregoire, Lindenbach is an online entrepreneur passionate about challenging common patterns of Christian thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

1 What is Rebellion? 1

2 Rules Versus Reasons 17

3 Expectations 39

4 Communication 53

5 Friendship 79

6 Discipline 97

7 Reality-Based Parenting 121

8 It's About God, Not the Church 139

9 The Family as a Team 165

10 Works in Progress 187

Acknowledgments 201

About the Author 205

Notes 207

Editorial Reviews

08/14/2017
Lindenbach, a Canadian self-help blogger, aims to explain how to parent so effectively that one’s children won’t rebel. Lindenbach, 22, is married without children; rather than speaking from a parental perspective, she explains how she endured adolescence, with all of its intense inner questioning and hormonal shifts, without defying her parents’ authority. A former homeschool student who proclaims that she is strong-willed and opinionated enough to take on the youth leadership in her church, Lindenbach attempts to assure readers that, despite her age, she understood the wisdom behind submitting to her parents. She details many of her childhood antics and how her mother and father dealt with each in loving yet firm ways. Lindenbach is nothing if not sincere and passionate, but readers will likely be skeptical about her parenting advice on issues such as how to communicate without talking down and ways to approach courtship, as she is not a parent herself. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly