A Parent Guide: Helping Your Children Raise You!: (My Stories)

What if your children are the building blocks God uses to grow your faith as you try to grow theirs?

A Parent Guide: Helping Your Children Raise You! invites you to consider altering your perspective on your parental role. If you look at your relationships with your children as mirrors of your relationship with your heavenly father, you may discover that your job is to help your children teach you how you can grow closer to God.

This guide presents questions to ask yourself and provides principles to dwell upon, each exemplified by a number of real-life stories that speak to the heart. In describing where he fell short and how these instances developed his awareness of God’s grace, author Don Peterson demonstrates how mistakes can become vehicles for learning to love.

Delivering actionable tools to help you improve your relationships with your children, this encouraging and insightful text helps you learn how to:

• Forgive in advance
• Evaluate your heart’s desires
• Think from a positive perspective
• Use creativity
• Be intentional
• Have fun!

And if you remember nothing else, you will forever be changed by the transformative knowledge that “we are designed to love.”

Don Peterson and his wife have been married for thirty-five years. Over the course of their marriage, in addition to their six children, they have opened up their home to 120 people in need of a helping hand. Peterson’s career includes time as a CPA and CFO, and currently, he works as a management consultant. But having a passion for helping families and children, he has also taught parenting classes, as well as conflict resolution classes, and has spent thirteen years as a basketball coach.

His innovative book A Parent Guide: Helping Your Children Raise You! invites parents to consider altering their perspectives on their role in the family and discover that their responsibility is actually to help their children teach them how they can grow closer to God.