Recommended Books

Here are some favorite books of mine which I can highly recommend.  I will exclude my own books (although I do recommend them). Some of these books are no longer in print, but you can probably find them on the internet.

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  1. Parenting by the Book by John Rosemond (Howard Books 2007)  Actually, any John Rosemond book is a good book on parenting.
  2. Faith Begins at Home by Mark Holmen (Regal Books 2005)
  3. Confident Parenting by Jim Burns (Bethany House 2006)
  4. Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World by H. Stephen Glenn (Prima Press 1989)
  5. Parenting Isn’t For Cowards by James Dobson (Word 1987)
  6. Raising Responsible Kids by Jay Kesler (Wolgemuth-Hyatt 1991)  This book was also published as Raising Emotionally Healthy Teenagers (Word 1998)
  7. Ties that Stress by David Elkind (Harvard Univ. Press 1994)  Elkind’s All Grown Up and No Place to Go (Addison-Wesley 1994) is also a classic.
  8. Reconnect by Al Menconi (Menconi Ministries 2009)
  9. Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna (Regal Books 2007)
  10. The Space Between by Walt Mueller (Zondervan 2008)