Standing on the Promises: A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing

This book is not your typical discipline/parenting manual that is so popular today. The beginning of the book deals with the covenant and how that applies to our parenting and raising of our children. I learned so much from reading this that even though there were things I disagreed with in the portion devoted to discipline advice I cannot rate it any lower than 5 stars. Mr. Wilson is a fantastic writer who explains covenental parenting in such was way as to make it very understandable and if you are new to the concept of the covenent this will seriously enrich your life. If your not, it will still help to deepen your understanding of it and with each time you re-read it you will find more and more about it to love and grow because of.

This book is a wonderful treatise on the scriptural foundation for hope in parenting and the heavy call that God puts on us as parents to fulfill His promises in our family. It does not turn a blind eye to the choices our children may make as they grow older. But our culture has turned so far away from the providence of God that we mistakenly believe that hope is only in the individual choices each of us make and in those our children make. This book is a corrective to that notion, centering us back on the hope that God has placed the solitary in families. We are not alone. Our children are not alone. And so they have a gift of spiritual growth that they would not have if they were raised in heathen homes. I recommend this book to all parents looking for guidance as to the foundation of hope upon which they parent their children. I believe that in our culture of blind humanistic optimism and individualistic Christian pessimism, this is an important topic. http://www.jeffreyclong.com

I could not stop reading this wonderful book, it is ballanced, and Biblical. I love the positive approach and the emphasis on loving children, and creating a pleasant atmosphere in the home.I have recommended this book to everyone I know who has children, and I highly recommend it to Amozon.com readers

As a pastor, and a father of four, I have always hoped for 1 book, definitive and courageous, to give out to families in desperate need of guidance for their family. I needed a book to cover the hard facts, without compromise... This is that one book. Every pastor should own this book, for the good of his family, and the good of his flock. In the Christian home, teenage rebellion, although common, is not normal. It is not acceptable. It does not have to be this way.