Author- TEDD TRIPP
Published- Shepherd Press. Wapwallopen. Pa.
ISBN- 0-9663786-0-1 (previously 1-879737-19-1)
www.shepherdpress.com There are other resources available including a parents handbook.
Among the many books written on the subject of parenting and family this one shines out as thoroughly biblically based. It combines simplicity with clarity and is possibly the best one currently available on this subject. The writer has many years experience as a pastor, father and school administrator and has taught these things for about ten years in conferences worldwide since the first edition was published. The emphasis of the book is indicated in the title, that right behaviour in a child comes from a heart that is shepherded by its parents to know God and to know his or herself in that light. The goal of parenting is that the child should come ‘to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever’. That a child should grow to be one in whom this is true lies in the election of God and the response that child but that end can be fostered by the raising of the child in a home where there are rules, correction and discipline. Love in the family is assumed and in the family there is vital need for consistent communication between parents and the child in the form of encouragement, correction, rebuke, entreaty, instruction, warning, teaching and prayer. There are a number of practical illustrations which help to encourage the reader and an implicit understanding that the work of parenting requires patience and humility and involves the making of mistakes and the need for a profound dependence upon God all along the way. The point is clearly made that ‘biblical goals must be accomplished through biblical methods. Therefore you must reject the substitute methods that our culture presents.” There are few criticisms of the current methods our culture uses in the raising of children in the book. This is a good thing because the biblical sanity and wholeness presented throughout rather show the worlds methods to be tawdry and rather pathetic.A reading of this book sets before us the wonderful privilege and possibility of being parents.
