The following are some of the resources available at the Lancaster Conference Congregational Resource Center:
- Arp, David and Claudia. Suddenly They're 13: Or the art of hugging a cactus. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999.
- An indispensable guide for parents to successfully manage the "prickly" adolescent years. David and Claudia Arp provide four tools to help you launch your kids into adulthood: regroup, release, relate and relax.
- Arp, David and Claudia. The Second Half of Marriage. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
- Your children are gone or are leaving soon. It's time to focus once again on your own future and especially on your marriage. What's in store for the second half? David and Claudia Arp reveal eight marital challenges every long-term marriage faces, and they offer strategies and exercises for meeting each of them. Also available as a nine session video series.
- Cloud, Henry & John Townsend. Raising Great Kids. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999.
- What does it take to raise great kids? Conflicting opinions may leave you confused. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you provide both the care and acceptance that make grace real to your kids, and the firmness and discipline that give direction. Also available in six session video series.
- Cook, Rosemarie S. Parenting a Child with Special Needs. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992.
- Answers questions parents may have about their special needs child. Also shows parents how to balance their own needs with the needs of their child, and looks at the special role siblings play. Rosemarie Cook shows parents how to turn the difficulties of their circumstances into an opportunity for spiritual growth.
- Drescher, John M. When Your Child is 6 to 12. Intercourse: Good Books, 1993.
- A call to enjoy the years six to twelve, but not to mistake their importance by neglecting the child who seems happy and content. John Drescher inspires and delivers his advice with compassion and care.
- Drescher, John M. Your Child 6 to 12: Your last great chance. Video. Worcester: Vision Video.
- Author John Drescher will help parents appreciate the preciousness of the pre-teen years.
- Parents will learn that this is the last great chance to hold your child and spend time together.
- Special characteristics of middle childhood will be illuminated, telling parents how to build loving relationships with their child by understanding and meeting his/her emotional needs.
- Examines the development of conscience, the spiritual development of the child, and how the child derives identity, adequacy and worth.
- Kaufman, Gerald and others. Freedom Fences. Scottdale: Herald Press, 1999.
- This guide to family life will inspire all who seek family stability in the face of social turbulence. Based on wisdom gained from counseling hundreds of families, the authors offer sound, practical advice that provides hope for the future of marriage and the family in the Christian community.
- Lingo, Susan L. Affordable Family Fun!: Family fun for under $5. Loveland: Group, 1998.
- Here's how to get your family talking, playing together, and growing closer. Each activity includes a Bible concept you want your family to understand. . .and each activity costs $5.00 or less, from start to finish!
- Life is no Picnic: Stress survival skills for the family. Video. JJM Communications, 1996.
- Dr. Charles Lowery leads this interactive 13 session series designed to help persons develop effective survival skills based on God's Word. The study is divided into four parts: battling stress; handling our fast-paced world; understanding personality; and succeeding with stress.
- Richmond, Gary. Successful Single Parenting. Eugene: Harvest House Publishers, 1990.
- Trying to be a loving, nurturing parent while struggling with finances, work, children's activities, and the need for a social life is enough to drive even the most energetic parent to the edge of frenzy. Drawing on the wisdom of God's Word and his own years of experience with single parents, Gary Richmond offers the most complete guide available for navigating the challenging waters of single parenting.
- Shepherding a Child's Heart. Video. Wapwallopen: Shepherd Press.
- A fifteen session video series, in which Tedd Tripp walks the viewer through the core content from his book, Shepherding a Child's Heart. From the fundamental biblical passages that define what good parenting is, Tripp describes both the concepts and methods of parenting in lively detail.
- Smalley, Gary. Homes of Honor: Parenting Series. Video. Branson: Today's Family, 1994.
- An eight session series which teaches how to discover your child's personality type, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to build on those strengths and minimize those weaknesses.
- Vogt, Susan, editor. Just Family Nights: 60 activities to keep your family together in a world falling apart. Elgin: Brethren Press, 1994.
- Provides sixty activities for families to do together - activities that build family unity and foster healthy values. Designed to fit into the busy schedule of today's family, Just Family Nights helps you spend some much-needed family time with your children while building awareness of global needs and concerns.
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