Boundaries With Kids by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend (Book Review)
Another best-selling resource from Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, Boundaries With Kids is tailor-fitted for parents to set godly and healthy boundaries in rearing children.
Clinical psychologists Cloud and Townsend aim to guide, educate, and mentor parents and secondary child caretakers to mold children’s character as early in life as possible for them to become responsible adults leading healthy, productive, and abundant lives.
If Boundaries: When To Say YES, When To Say NO, To Take Control of Your Life and Boundaries With Teens blessed you in your daily walk, Boundaries With Kids will certainly do the same. Boundaries Christian book helps people to take ownership of their personal lives in relation to everything around them. Boundaries With Teens aids mothers and fathers to understand and nurture teenagers according to the precepts of God as taught in the Scriptures. Boundaries With Kids deals with parenting problems and crises and instructs parents on how to raise children who will be successful in their personal, family, career, relational, and most importantly, spiritual lives.
Boundaries With Kids deals with all sorts of child problems like impulsivity, inattention to parental directives, defying authority, whining, procrastination, inability to finish tasks, aggressive behavior, school problems, conflict with friends, sexual involvement, drugs, gangs. Here are its three sections-
Part I- Why Kids Needs Boundaries – Teaches kids on how to be responsible and profiles a maturing child with boundaries and parents knowing their boundaries.
Part II – Ten Boundary Principles Kids Need To Know- Children learn from the consequences of their actions or problems and from there takes responsibility.
Part III- Implementing Boundaries With Kids- Guides parents to set specific boundaries in practical ways.
Boundaries With Kids is also written for single people to prepare them for their task as future parents. If only all parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles, teachers, coaches, pastors, doctors, and primary care workers will be able to read and apply the principles in this Christian book, there will be transformation in the lives of children as young as an infant and families in different societies worldwide. Children with boundaries will later on become teens with boundaries and eventually become adults themselves, not perfect, but healthy and whole.
Boundaries With Kids lines up with a well-known Bible verse in Proverbs 22.6: Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Boundaries With Kids comes in softcover, audio cds, dvd, workbook, dvd curriculum, leader’s guide and participant’s guide.
Boundaries With Kids by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend and other Christian books are available in our Christian bookstore or wherever books are sold.
About the author: Haydee
I have a passion to love God above all else. It is my desire to worship Him and to serve Him for the rest of my life. He is my first love. In Him, I live and move and have my being. I am His child, His treasured possession and His ambassador to reach souls for His kingdom. I am currently the Book Reviewer for CBB and in-charge of CBB book marketing here. God called me to be a Prayer Minister in Healing Rooms and IAHR Online Healing Rooms and connected with Wholeness Ministries and Elijah House.