Parenting from Your Strengths: Understanding Strengths and Valuing Differences in Your Home

by Eric Tooker, Rodney Cox, Eric Tooker

Parenting From Your Strengths is a powerful new book from the authors of the Leading from Your Strengths™ book series that helps parents-and their children-get on the same page, build more harmony, and head off potential conflicts. It does this by introducing to those seeking to create an even more effective parenting “team” some of the same tools and insights that have helped hundreds of ministry teams become closer and more connected. The Global Parenting Plan (GPP) draws on the imagery of Global Positioning devices-by doing what Global Positioning devices do to help people track a successful course. What a GPS device does is “triangulate” a person's position, by getting a reading from three known positions: God's unchanging Word, their own unique parenting strengths, and the way each of their children is “fearfully and wonderfully made.” By drawing on these three factors parents can not only draw closer to each other, but can be even more effective in “training up a child” in their own unique bent.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jesse Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm a fan of teaching, learning and leading from Strengths. I was hopeful that this book would be a good resource for that. Sadly, it's simply a lot of words that say very little. Most of the worthwhile parts of the book can be looked up online by searching for LOGB Strengths and reading about the 4 animals.
If you are already familiarly with the 4 areas, this book won't help you much.

[Imogene · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. Fast short simple. Chris and I got some great chuckles out of how on point they are with the parenting techniques.

[Jennifer]

Just tries to sell you a profile.