Pills for Parents in Pain: How to Successfully Survive Parenting

"Help! I'm suffering from a sexually transmitted disease - CHILDREN!"Most parents, at one time or another, qualify for a medical alert bracelet with that message. Form the terrible twos to the empty nest blues, even "normal" parenting brings in its share of pain -- and for some parents the hurt reaches epidemic proportions. So what's the remedy? Lee Ezell prescribes a healthy done of perspective, forgiveness, and faith, washed down with an ounce or two of laughter. Writing from her own parenting experience, from years of counseling parents in their various dilemmas, and from her favorite biblical principles, she offers understanding and relief if you are wounded from trying to hug a "porcupine child" Worn out from trying to motivate a nonachiever? Agonizing over a prodigal who prefers living with the pigs? Sick with worry over your child's salvation? Weary trying to relate to a hostile stepchild? Black and blue from beating yourself up over your failures? or just plain burned out in your struggle to be a responsible mom or dad? Realistic yet hopeful, practical and biblical -- Pills for Parents in Pain is a lifesaving reminder that you're not alone in the parenting task. You share the job with a dependable and loving heavenly Parent who also happens to be the Great Physician. And he's the dependable remedy for all your parenting pain. "In an age of parent-bashing, child-hating, elder-discarding, and family-disparaging, it is a breath of fresh air to find Lee Ezell's realistic and biblical encouragement of both parents and children." From the introduction by Gloria Gaither "Ezell is perhaps best known for the moving story of her rape that resulted in pregnancy and her reunion years later with the child she had given up for adoption. Now she writes tenderly to parents who struggle with a difficult child. Christians, she observes, can be discouraged when their kids don't seem to be turning out "right." Christian pare! nts tend to be more concerned about passing on morality and values than their secular counterparts. Pain can be heaped on pain when well-meaning church friends like Job's advisors, hand out platitudes meant to straighten out the black sheep's errant ways. What are Ezell's pills? "Fatherly care" is God's steadfast commitment to our families in joy or trial, his love that covers our failures and our children's rebellion. "Blame removal therapy" describes when to let go of our kids and how to leave the ultimate responsibility with God. In her chapter "Taking Hold," Ezell reminds moms and dads of what they can work on--attitudes, habits, prayer and spiritual life, the marriage relationship and friendships outside the family." Ginny Nieuwsma. Lee Ezell is an author, and a "humor therapist" with a busy speaking and seminar schedule. She is the author of the best-selling The Cinderella Syndrome, Private Obsessions, and the nationally-acclaimed The Missing Piece, the story of her dramatic reunion wit