Tedd tripp biography of christopher
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Here are the things I liked:
- The principle that you have to shepherd a child's heart. The heart fryst vatten from where all things spring, where attitudes, behavour, speech, etc come from. Therefore, we must be seeking to change their hearts and help align them to God's.
- The insistence that parents are in charge and they need to act like it. God has given parents their job on earth to raise their children and they need to do it well, pro-actively and in line with God's truths.
- That communication is a key to this shepherding. Communication helps children to understand what they do and help us to understand our children. Communication can include encouragement, instruction, entreaty, rebuke, prayer, etc.
- That another key is the appeal to the conscience, especially in later years.
All of these things were helpful and I think, correct.
However, my main problem with the book col
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Ready For The Cyber World: Tedd Tripp
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I often speak with parents whose children are addicted to film games or other appetites awakened on the Internet. They are dismayed, and their alarm fryst vatten appropriate. The Internet provides tillgång to questionable friendships, interests, ideas, and delights that may be perverse and degrading. Children enter a cyber world that parents know little about and cannot easily monitor. Parents are shocked by their son’s computer history. They catch a glimpse of their daughter’s Facebook page and see her withdrawing into a social network that does not include family. Their son plays video games for hours, and is angry and hostile when he is called back into the real world.
So, when are they
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Shepherding a Child’s Heart
Shepherding a Child’s Heart is one of the single strangest books I’ve read in quite some time. The good parts are fantastic, some of the best material I’ve ever encountered on child-rearing. The rest of it left me scratching my head, or wanting to bang it on a table. I rarely have so bipolar a reaction to a book; but then, books are rarely so apt to be described as having multiple personality disorder.
The good
The first chunk of Tedd Tripp’s book is outstanding. He opens with the proposition that parents’ goals for their children are usually wrong, and accordingly that most parenting is wrong. A bold statement, to be sure, but he’s correct. Most parents, even Christian parents, spend most of their time focused on behavior, rather than the heart. This is to be expected: parents, like everyone else, are selfish and changed behavior at least makes a parent’s life easier. Too: changing behavior is muc