Parenting Ahead: Preparing Now for the Teen Years : Hatton, Kristen

Brief Description:

"Parenting Ahead helps parents with younger children build a foundation for their family based on biblical principles for the teen years to come"--

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Parenting Ahead helps parents with younger children build a foundation for their family based on biblical principles for the teen years to come. Readers will learn to practice redemptive parenting where their children grow to see the world through a gospel lens based on biblical truth.

As parents of young children anticipate the teen years, counselor Kristen Hatton helps them lay the groundwork so that having honest conversations, setting reasonable limits, and exploring issues of the heart will prepare them and their children for the next stage. Hatton helps moms and dads make the connection between their current parenting and future outcomes. By evaluating their parenting, they will see where their own fears, desires, and insecurities lie and how to pivot to practices of faith and trust in God.

Proactive, long-haul parenting will help parents and children be better prepared for engaging in the realities of peer pressure, decision-making, and recognizing the connection between behavior and the heart.

Contributor Bio:Hatton, Kristen

Kristen Hatton, LPC-Associate, is a counselor and author passionate about helping families. She lives with her pastor-husband, Pete, in Dallas, Texas. Together they have three young adult children and a son-in-law. Kristen is the author of Face Time: Your Identity in a Selfie World, Get Your Story Straight: A Teen's Guide to Learning and Living the Gospel, and The Gospel Centered Life in Exodus for Students.