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This provocative little book will show you how to grow satisfying, long-lasting friendships through special skills that you can easily learn. John Townsend helps readers work through the eight vital skills necessary for building long-term, rewarding friendships: #1 The Secret to Rewarding Friendships Explores our need for human relationships, including what so many of these relationships are missing. #2 Don't Look Up for Friends This provocative little book will show you how to grow satisfying, long-lasting friendships through special skills that you can easily learn. John Townsend helps readers work through the eight vital skills necessary for building long-term, rewarding friendships. Topics include: #1 The Secret to Rewarding Friendships Explores our need for human relationships, including what so many of these relationships are missing. #2 Don't Look Up for Friends Explains how seeking people who live and work at your socio-economic level, or those whom you may see as beneath you, will help you discover greater spiritual and intellectual riches. #3 Friendship Is Not About You Emphasizes how giving your friends lots of space and maintaining a life of your own builds stronger friendships. #4 Common Interests Fuel Friendships Helps you seek common interests in others for more fulfilled friendships. #5 Friends Listen Long and Well How to hear not just your friends' words but also their hearts. #6 Give Friends the Grace You Need How to give as much grace to a friend who has offended as you pray God will give you in your own times of weakness. #7 Friends Hold Each Other Accountable How spirituality and emotionally investing in others helps prevent personal failure. #8 Catch Friends Doing Right Things How to affirm your friends' gifts and behaviors when you catch them doing or saying right things.

Applies biblically based principles to handle the challenging task of raising teens, explaining how to apply boundaries and addressing the attitudes, conflicts, and difficulties of parents themselves to help them resolve their own personal obstacles and become an effective maturing force for the teen.

Discusses the creation of healthy boundries and reinforced consequences to help children develop a sense of accountability for their own lives.

Product Description: A video resource kit that helps parents bring control to their family and instill godly character in their children. This ZondervanGroupware™ curriculum is a complete resource kit for helping parents put into practice the principles detailed in the book Boundaries with Kids...read more

Product Description: Boundaries with Kids will help parents: Recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems Set boundaries and establish consequences with kids Get out of the “nagging” trap Stop controlling their kids―and instead help their children develop self-control Apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting Take six practical steps for implementing boundaries with their kids Want to Paint a Happy Future for Your Children? Start Drawing the Line Today...read more

Describes six different styles of mothering, provides advice for adults on how to reconcile with their mothers, discusses the conflict between nurturing and outside work, and offers valuable advice on how to make positive changes in one's own life. (Family Life) (view table of contents)

Discusses the creation of healthy boundries and reinforced consequences to help children develop a sense of accountability for their own lives.

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Discusses the creation of healthy boundries and reinforced consequences to help children develop a sense of accountability for their own lives (view table of contents)