Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
by Paul David Tripp
Fourteen principles (calling, grace, law, inability, identity, process, lost, authority, foolishness, character, false gods, control, rest, mercy): parenting as ambassadorship rather than ownership. Tripp's parenting book for all ages.
Read it if…
you want a gospel framework for parenting rather than techniques.
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Skip it if…
you want techniques; see Faber and Mazlish.
Try instead: Shepherding a Child's Heart →
Three things you will actually use
- You are an ambassador, not an owner.
- You cannot change your child's heart; point to the one who can.
- Rest in grace; parenting is not a performance.
Do this first
Read the chapter on inability.
Our verdict
Ambassador, not owner.
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