Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us in Worry and Guilt-Fast Shipping

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In this provocativebook, author Leslie Leyland Fields explores with refreshing honesty the myths that can lead to unrealisticexpectations and distract us from God’s purposes for our children and for us.

Why am I not a more joyful parent? Why aren’t my kids turning out as I expected?Why do I always feel as if I’m not doing enough for my children? Is Parenting Supposedto Be This Difficult? As a mother of six, Leslie Leyland Fields knows firsthandthe insecurities and questions that come with rearing children. In Parenting Is Your Highest Calling, she tacklesnine myths about parenting, including:

• Children make you happy and bring great fulfillment.
• Youwill always feel love for your child.
• Your success as a parent can be measuredby your child’s behavior.
• There is one “right” biblical model for family life.
• Good parenting will result in happy children.

Through a close look at God’s ownlife as a parent as well as stories from real-life families, Fields highlights thetransforming biblical truths that release parents from the grip of mistaken , provocative insights will lead you to a deeper understanding of God and yourself– an understanding that lifts the weight of guilt and fear and frees you to love yourchildren as God intended.

Includes “going deeper” questions for individuals, couples,or groups.