Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think - Crew Review

Parenting Made Practical offers practical ways for parents to stop lecturing and get their kids to own their behavior and responsibilities through their book and DVD – Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think. Every parent has lectured their kids at one time or another, usually in frustration and anger. How do you lecture your kids? Reminding? Threatening? Talking over your kids when they are talking? Nagging? Debating? Negotiating? Lecturing is just a polite way of yelling at your kids for not getting something done or for not doing it right.

When kids and teens choose to disobey their parent’s direction and instructions, parents revert to lecturing them. They think if they tell them what the right thing to do is just one more time, their kids will permanently change their behavior. When parents lecture their kids they are doing all the thinking for them. Kids are fine with their parents reminding them and thinking for them because then they don’t have to.

Joey and Carla Link are parent educators who are known for making parenting practical, thus the name Parenting Made Practical. With Joey’s sixteen years of pastoral experience in youth and family ministries plus twenty-five years as the Director of a non-profit ministry to families and Carla’s degree in social work, together they bring a unique blend of fresh teaching to parents. They share from personal experiences in their life as they give practical tools to motivate kids to take ownership of their responsibilities so you will no longer need to lecture them. Whether your kids are three to twenty-three, you will find this an indispensable guide to get your kids to think for themselves so you can stop thinking for them.

I enjoyed reading the book, Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think. While the truths are biblically based, the topics covered make this a helpful tool for any parent training their pre-adult children for future success in higher education. I, too, believe the number one reason parents are continually frustrated with their kids is they don’t want to give up the time it takes to train them. Sure, you are busy; but in fifteen years will you remember what you were busy with or will you be frustrated you don’t have a relationship with your now adult children? Think about it. Joey and Carla have developed a biblical standard to combat the most common parenting approach – lecturing. Their practical wisdom has been invaluable to me as I raise our three children.

 

 

The DVD, Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kidsto Think, is based on the book. The DVD is one in the “A Parent’s Night Out” series, a series of presentations designed to both encourage and equip parents to raise obedient, respectful and responsible children in today’s world.

If you would like to go through the book in a group, study questions for each chapter are available at no charge on the website www.parentingmadepractical.com. Parents can also get more teaching through blog posts along with recommended resources for all ages on the website.

My family reviewed Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think; but the Homeschool Review Crew reviewed different products, so be sure to visit the Crew Blog to learn more about the other products available from Parenting Made Practical.