Parenting Aint For Punks

From nurturing your teens to making values clear, parents exert enormous influence over their children's development. It is especially important that parents give children a good start, but it's also important for parents to recognize that kids come into the world with their own temperaments, and it is the parents' job to provide an interface with the world that eventually prepares a child for complete independence. In a rapidly changing world, parenting seems subject to fads and changing styles, and parenting in some ways must compete with social media and its effect on their children. There is such a thing as over-parenting, and aiming for perfection in parenting might be a fool's mission. Often, you feel isolated, uncertain and overwhelmed while trying to raise your teen, due to the absence of your sweet child and the blossoming of a young adult. You battle with the mommy-daddy guilt while trying to maintain your sanity in the world where life can be so demanding and overnight, your little sweetheart becomes distant, disobedient, and disrespectful. You don't know what happened but you, are NOT alone! "No, Parenting Ain't for Punks, but with the information in this book, you will become confident in knowing that you can make it through those challenging and possibly chaotic teen years." -Tavis Taylor The insight provided in this quick reference guide is the illumination and reassurance that every parent needs to help them navigate through the parenting process. Join fellow parents as they delve into trying to understand the waves of chaos that can ensue while parenting a teen.

From nurturing your teens to making values clear, parents exert enormous influence over their children's development. It is especially important that parents give children a good start, but it's also important for parents to recognize that kids come into the world with their own temperaments, and it is the parents' job to provide an interface with the world that eventually prepares a child for complete independence. In a rapidly changing world, parenting seems subject to fads and changing styles, and parenting in some ways must compete with social media and its effect on their children.There is such a thing as over-parenting, and aiming for perfection in parenting might be a fool's mission. Often, you feel isolated, uncertain and overwhelmed while trying to raise your teen, due to the absence of your sweet child and the blossoming of a young adult.You battle with the mommy-daddy guilt while trying to maintain your sanity in the world where life can be so demanding and overnight, your little sweetheart becomes distant, disobedient, and disrespectful. You don't know what happened but you, are NOT alone!"No, Parenting Ain't for Punks, but with the information in this book, you will become confident in knowing that you can make it through those challenging and possibly chaotic teen years."- Tavis Taylor The insight provided in this quick reference guide is the illumination and reassurance that every parent needs to help them navigate through the parenting process. Join fellow parents as they delve into trying to understand the waves of chaos that can ensue while parenting a teen.

Marriage is a bond that requires hard work from two people in order to achieve happiness—find all the tips and tools to a happily-ever-after, using the guidance of a trusted relationship expert. ​ Beloved marriage counselor Pastor Cal Roberson captivates millions of viewers with his eccentric personality and unabashed yet effective marriage advice—and Marriage Ain’t for Punks is no different. This book is a relationship game changer. It’s a straightforward and unapologetic dive into why people fail or struggle at one of the most popular and sought-after unions in society. Even though some marriages look like a hot mess, don’t give up hope, because it is transparency, honesty, and downright fearlessness that make a great marriage. A good relationship is about refusing to allow pettiness to destroy the loving connection that partners truly seek to find with each other. Those with healthy marriages are not weaklings. They are not quitters. They know that Marriage Ain’t for Punks!

Does your heart skip a beat when you think of all that could go wrong in the parenting years ahead? Anxiety is normal, but your worst fears don’t have to become reality. Speaking both as a therapist and a father—and drawing on a landmark study of thirty-five thousand parents—Dr. James Dobson helps you . . . prevent child-rearing troubles before they happen banish your guilt about hard-to-raise children protect your sanity during a child’s adolescence restore your energy when you’re facing burnout enhance your relationships with your kids With more than one million copies sold, this confidence-building classic will help you experience the full joy of parenthood—and what may be the greatest sense of fulfillment you’ll ever know.

Marriage is a bond that requires hard work from two people in order to find happiness--find all the tips and tools to a happily-ever-after using the guidance of a trusted relationship expert. The reality of marriage is... there are no secrets to making marriage work. You may never enjoy the image you have concocted of what a happy or beautiful marriage looks like or what great kids look like. Rather, in getting to your successful ending, you may experience much of the following: You are so dog-tired of each other that your sex life will become inactive or uninspiring. You will forget about communication boundaries and say whatever is on your mind because you are fed up! There will be tears; there may be cursing; there could be screaming. Prayers may help, but don't take away the pain. Conventional wisdom will say, "That's a marriage that's on its last leg. It's about to crash and burn." But according to Pastor Cal Roberson, this is a marriage that's setting the foundation for a beautiful reset. Marriage Ain't for Punks is a relationship game changer. It is a straight-forward and unapologetic dive into why people fail or struggle at one of the most popular and sought-after unions in modern and ancient society. It is more than a book about marriage. It is a book about how to manage life with another person by probing into the heart of the readers and forces them to confront themselves and be accountable for their own emotions and actions. Transparency, honesty, and downright fearlessness are the traits that make great marriages. They refuse to allow pettiness to destroy the beauty they do have. They are not weaklings. They are not quitters. The realize that Marriage Ain't for Punks.

As time went on, the book developed a mind of its own. It was always the author's intent to deal with issues others seem not to want to touch, and simultaneously deal with truths that will rock the world. Just because someone has a "mega" church doesn't mean they are telling their people the complete truth as revealed by God in the scriptures. When people know the truth, they will not put up with the lies, deceit, falsifications, and misrepresentations. Too many churches today have to deal with the leaders of the church being a liar, fornicator, and a person who thinks they know what's better for the human race than God does. In other words, too many churches are having to deal with "idiots in the pulpit."

A renowned doula shares powerful lessons on healing and thriving through the murky seasons of life in this moving, intimate guide to deeper self-awareness and radical joy. “This book is a beacon of resilience. . . . A must-read for anyone committed to growth.”—Erica Chidi Cohen, author of Nurture We’ve all been there: We take a pause, look at our lives, and desire more—more from our relationships, more from our wellness journeys, maybe simply more from ourselves. For some, it might be more fun, more peace, more exploration—but what does it take to get to the other side of living in survival mode? In On Thriving, Brandi Sellerz-Jackson helps us wade through what she calls the four great labors of our lives—labors that she’s had to overcome and that she has led many clients through. Drawing from her experiences as a doula and intimate storytelling from her own life, Sellerz-Jackson guides us through the many phases of these great labors—labors that we can get stuck in, stunting our ability to thrive. Across age, gender, economic status, or background, we all move through the great labor of our relationships, our mental health, grief and loss, and the feeling of being othered. Sellerz-Jackson doesn’t shy away from the pitfalls of these labors but rather challenges us to actively remain present within them and ask ourselves: What do I need to thrive in the space I’m currently in? In On Thriving, you’ll come to recognize the survival tools you’ve picked up along the way and exchange them for thriving tools and “rich-uals.” You’ll commit to no longer making a home out of chaos and rediscovering sanctuary within yourself. Comparing our thriving to that of plant life, Sellerz-Jackson simplifies the complicated—and oftentimes overwhelming—journey as we attempt to grow in an inhospitable environment. With insightful and vulnerable storytelling, she invites a deep, soul-stirring investigation of our past and present to gather all that we need to thrive right where we are, right now.

From noted parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner comes the definitive book about parenting African American children. For over a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, and wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically acclaimed website, MyBrownBaby.com. The site, hailed a “must-read” by The New York Times, speaks to the experiences, joys, fears, and triumphs of African American motherhood. After publishing almost 2,000 posts aimed at lifting the voices of parents of color, Millner has now curated a collection of the website’s most important and insightful essays offering perspectives on issues from birthing while Black to negotiating discipline to preparing children for racism. Full of essays that readers of all backgrounds will find provocative, My Brown Baby acknowledges that there absolutely are issues that Black parents must deal with that white parents never have to confront if they’re not raising brown children. This book chronicles these differences with open arms, a lot of love, and the deep belief that though we may come from separate places and have different backgrounds, all parents want the same things for our families—and especially for our children.

Praying it Forward....Leaving a Prayer Legacy for your Children is vital.Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. (Ezra 8:21)In the "Parenting Ain't for Punks Prayer Journal: A 21-Day Guide to Fasting and Praying for Your Children," Tavis Taylor educates, equips, and empowers you on your journey of intentionally fasting and praying for your children.It is power packed with 21 days of scripture, prayers, declarations, and journaling space for you to intercede for your children and seek the will of God for their lives. By utilizing this 21-day guide, you will develop a prayer legacy of that can last a lifetime. Upon completing the journal, she encourages you to gift it to the children you were praying for and encourage them to do the same thing for their children, thus creating a legacy of "Praying it Forward" for the next generation.

In This Is a Picture and Not the World, Joseph Natoli employs the lingua franca of film itself—screenplay dialogue—as well as the more recent form of the political blog to present a hyperreal account of popular film as both a creator and a reflector of our post-9/11 mass psyche. Drawing on both classic and contemporary film examples, the book also offers a quasihistory of film genres, including science fiction, the western, film noir, and screwball comedy, emphasizing how these genres have been shaken up, recontextualized, recombined, turned self-reflexive, and parodied over the past couple of decades. Taken together, these satirical parodies of screenplays and blogs reveal and perform how our very gaze has shifted from modern to postmodern, from a direct view of the world to a filtered one.