For eight weeks I will be leading a parenting seminar called Parenting is Heart Work at my church.  This is where I will put my links and notes so that the ones who come can refer back to.  I wanted them to have a place to come if six months down the road they were trying to think of a resource that I shared with them and could not remember it they could come here but I also thought I could share a little bit of the seminar with my notes here to my blogger friends.  Each week I will share the resources I talk about.  The first week I wanted to share the effectiveparenting.org resources because that is the study we are doing and dvds we are watching! 

I have a Category bar on the right side, just click on Parenting Seminar and the notes will be there, that way you won't have to look through all my entries to get there.  Of course unless you want to-I would love for you to read my whole blog! 

I have found so many resources in my parenting journey I would love to share some each week from many other sources as well.  Each week I will talk a little bit about a particular theme and then share the resources from that.   Teaching Children Character and Biblical teaching has been a passion of mine and hope and pray that you will learn something from my struggles and successes to take into your homes and family!

I started with my testimony of the struggles I had with an angry child.  I blogged about this a few years back, here is the link

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/byourlove1/181589/

I was new to blogging then and wrote it all in one paragraph, sorry about that, I wanted to edit it but because it is so old it wouldn't allow me to!

Effectiveparenting.org is the website of the ministry that we are watching the video on. 

The books I talked about are

Great book for children and parents who struggle with an anger issue!  You can get this from amazon or on the effective parenting website! 

This book is the one I am giving away at the end of the session to one lucky winner!  This book is based on the dvds we are watching!  Amazon or their website!

My all time favorite!  I LOVE this book.  Gives you practical tips on keeping the whining and complaining out of family life!  Specific things you can do with your children and a study at the end you can do together!  Amazon or their website!

This is a wonderful book to do with a group of kids or your own at home!  Really helps you get to the heart of your children's behavior!  Some of these kinds of books I feel are corny, just like I said in the study, we don't have to be corny just because we are Christians, I feel this one is not!  They have a series of these, this is the one I own!  Get this at effectiveparenting.org

CD's

These are the ones that helped us so much with Zach!  After listeing to these and applying them to our lives we saw instant changes.  It took a while to get where we needed to get but like anything.  You have to work on training not only your child but yourself in how you deal with them, especially the strong willed. 

First CD's I listened to, if you have a child that is strong willed, suffers from ADD or ADHD, you have to listen to them.  Found at effectiveparenting.org.

These Cds are just like the dvds we are watching but have a little more information.  Found at effectiveparenting.org

Fun activity books for Family Nights.  They have them for all ages!  Effectiveparenting.org