Tedd Tripp on parenting that addresses the heart rather than managing behavior. For decades the standard Reformed work on child-rearing. Revised and updated edition. Read more.
Shepherding a Child's Heart is about how to speak to the heart of your child. The things a child does and says flow from the heart; as Luke 6:45 puts it, out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Written for parents with children of any age, the book offers both a perspective and a set of procedures for shepherding a child's heart into the paths of life rather than merely securing outward compliance.
Tedd Tripp works through the shaping influences on a child and the godward orientation of the heart, then treats the practical questions by stage: infancy to childhood, childhood to adolescence, and adolescence onward. Along the way he addresses communication, the parent's authority as a delegated rather than absolute one, and the place and limits of the rod. Revised and updated. Published by Shepherd Press.
