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Managing Your Emotions 

Blog: Teresa Auten, Joyful Harbour Home   

Article: Overcoming Anxiety in Parenting, Focus on the Family 

Books:      Managing Your Emotions, Joyce Meyer

                   Boundaries, Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

                   Calm My Anxious Heart, Linda Dillow 

Books

Marriage Centered Family:

Sacred Influence, Gary Thomas

Getting Away to Get it Together, Bill and Carolyn Wellons

Love and Respect, Emerson Eggerich

Discipline of Children:

Parenting is Heart Work, Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller

Parenting with Love and Logic, Foster Cline and Jim Fay

Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Tedd Tripp

The New Dare to Discipline, James C Dobson

Parenting by the Book, John Roseman

Grace Based Parenting, Tim Kimmel

Chief Life Officer: 

(on a smattering of topics!)

Growing Friendships, Tracy Klein

The Shaping of a Christian Family, Elisabeth Elliot

Cleaning House, Kay Wills Wyma

When the Kids are Home From School, Carol Van Klompenburg & Joyce Ellis

Spiritual Training of Children:

The Mission of Motherhood, Sally Clarkson

What Really Matters at Home, John and Susan Yates

Shepherding a Child's Heart, Tedd Tripp

Visionary Parenting, Dr. Rob Rienow

Mothers of Many Styles:

Bittersweet, Shauna Niequist

Please Understand Me, David Keirsey

Mother Styles, Janet Penley and Diane Eble

The Mission of Motherhood, Sally Clarkson

Letters to My Daughters, Barbara Rainey

Comparisons/Self-Esteem:

Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman

One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp

Birds and Bees - Sex Education:

Learning About Sex Series,

https://biblicalparenting.org/learningaboutsex/

Created by God, Dr. James H Ritchie, Jr.

The Birds and the Bees, Without the Butterflies, Traci Lester

Managing Your Emotions:

Managing Your Emotions, Joyce Meyer

Calm my Anxious Heart, Linda Dillow

In the Middle of the Mess, Sheila Walsh

Unseen, Sara Hagerty

Keeping Your Love Alive:

Starting Your Marriage Right, Dennis & Barbara Rainey

Getting Away to Get it Together, Bill and Carolyn Wellons

Love Life for Every Married Couple, Dr. Ed Wheat

No More Headaches, Dr. Juli Slattery

Websites

Individual Assessment sites: 

Spiritual Gifts online assessment www.churchgrowth.org

Myers-Briggs (Jung Typology) online assessment www.humanmetrics.com

Strengthsfinder 2.0 - buy the book and take the online "strengths" assessment

Helpful Resource Links for marriage and parenting topics:

Focus on the Family www.focusonthefamily.org

Family Life www.familylife.com

Cultivating a Healthy Marriage, Tim Keller podcast

Biblical Parenting www.biblicalparenting.org

Joyful Mothers-on Instagram - encouragement for moms, so you have spiritual overflow for your kids.

Ginger Hubbard and Sally Clarkson on Instagram 

Keys for Kids-Linda read this for years as a bedtime devotional with her kids, and we all loved it!

Authentic Intimacy- Dr. Juli Slattery

No More Perfect Date Night- Jill Savage 

Mother Tongue- article by Mandy Arioto, CEO of MOPS International

Letter to My In-Laws- Buying Too Much Stuff 

10 Tips for Getting Along with Your Mother-in-Law- Gretchen Rubin, Psychology Today

To Be Called, by Dan Allender

How Does Your Garden Grow?, YouTube video on how God uses even the hard parts of your story

All Those Emotions. list of emotions

Poem- Along The Way

Parenting with Grace article