The Key to Your Child's Heart : Raise Motivated, Obedient, and Loving Children

A repeat bestseller for two decades, this child-rearing classic cuts to the heart of the anger and alienation that mar so many modern homes. In this ultimately practical book, Gary Smalley outlines effective steps for parents to open up a child that has shut them out. He describes family-tested ways for parents to set limits and enforce them, and he reveals the simple but powerful secret for achieving a close-knit family. Learn proven parenting methods that can spell the difference between an angry, rebellious, distant child and a happy, cooperative one. Reveals practical ways which family sharing can keep children's hearts open both to you and to God. THE KEY TO YOUR CHILD'S HEART centers around a singleessential principle that can spell the difference between an angry, rebellious, distant child and a happy, cooperative one. That principle - the true key to your child's heart - is knowing how to keep your child's spirit open ONE EVENING WHILE I was in my bedroom on a long-distance phone call, my son Greg, five years old at the time, let out a bloodcurdling scream from the master bathroom. Nationally known marriage and family expert Gary Smalley offers proven steps that will help raise motivated, obedient, and loving children.