Parenting the Ephraim's Child: Characteristics, Capabilities, and Challenges of Children Who Are Intensely More

Determination, energy, and a headstrong will---the very traits that make your child a parenting challenge---are, in fact, the character strengths the Lord needs in our day. This revolutionary parenting guide combines real-life examples, scriptural passages, and sound techniques that will change the way you see your child. Learn to love your children because of their personalities, not in spite of them.

Deborah Talmadge is a native of western Colorado and is the mother of three and the grandmother of five. Deborah is proficient at the piano and studied Piano Performance and Geology at Mesa State College. She even had the opportunity to stay for a month in Italy to study under piano masters there. She now teaches piano lessons around her writing schedule and has published two fiction novels.

Deborah has served in numerous church callings including Primary Chorister, Ward Organist and Chorister, Music Chairman, Relief Society Teacher, Ward Activity Director, and eight years as a Gospel Doctrine teacher. She is currently serving as the Relief Society Nursery Leader and Sunday School teacher for ages 14-16.

Deborah is very involved in the lives of her children and grandchildren and got a first-hand look at daily life with Ephraim’s Children while caring for one Ephraim’s Child grandson while his mom was on four months of bed rest. After taking care of him all day, she would then stay in the evenings with her other daughter and her two Ephraim’s Children. Deborah enjoys early morning walks and hiking in the desert mountains and canyons of western Colorado.

Jaime Theler lives in American Fork, Utah, but grew up in Colorado. She attended Brigham Young University, where she met and married her husband Jason. She graduated from BYU with a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy.

Following graduation, their first child was born, and thus began the quest to find parenting counsel that would actually work with this child. Two more children later, she finally feels like she has a general idea on what to do.

Jaime is a stay-at-home mom with the full-time job of keeping up with her extremely active kids. She fits writing around naps, bedtime, and daily crises. Jaime's first two kids are very much Ephraim’s Children, and her baby girl is showing definite tendencies of being one too. Jaime has served for years in the primary organization in three different wards and has ample experience with methods and techniques that do—and do not—work with super intense kids.

She loves to play tennis, scrapbook, read anything she can get her hands on, and home decorate whenever she has a spare minute and dime.