Books Recommended for Parents:
More recommended lists of books can be found on these websites:
Biblical Manhood/Womanhood or CCEF

Shepherding a Child’s Heart
By Tedd Tripp
One of the best single volume overviews of biblical parenting, with a special and much needed emphasis on addressing the child’s heart - his beliefs and motives - and bringing the Gospel to the child in practical ways.  Click here
 

Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teenagers
By Paul Tripp
Applies the same heart and Gospel dynamics as in Shepherding a Child’s Heart to parents and teens.  Click here

Peacemaking for Families
By Ken Sande
An excellent biblical guidebook for addressing marriage and family conflict.  Click here
 

Sacred Parenting
By Gary Thomas
"Sacred Parenting" works off a simple premise: Raising children shapes the parent every bit as much as parents shape their children. Many books have been written about how to parent a child effectively, how to become a better parent, and how effective parenting produces better kids.  "Sacred Parenting" explores an entirely different reality:  how parenting affects the parent.  Click here
 
Your Girl: Raising a Godly Daughter in an Ungodly World
By Vicki Courtney, Forwarded by: Beth Moore
Your Girl is directed to moms of girls ages eighteen and under.  A long overdue book that is unique and that comprehensively addresses the issues concerning most moms in the rearing of their daughters.  Chapters will cover the dangers of conformity, self-worth, sexual purity, modesty, contentment, and femininity.  Click here
 
Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood
By Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Mahaney Whitacre
Mothers and daughters have a lot to talk about.  That's how God designed it.  A mother is her daughter's first role model, teacher and friend, and she carries the responsibility of passing on to her daughter a legacy of Biblical womanhood.  Join mother-daughter team Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole Whitacre as they give you insights and suggestions on how to talk - really talk-to each other about what it means to become a Godly woman.  Tips and study questions make it easy for moms and their pre-teen and teenage daughters to read, share, discuss and grow.  Click here
 
What a Daughter Needs From Her Dad: How A Man Prepares His Daughter for Life
By Michael Farris
To encourage and guide men in becoming the dads they want to be, Michael Farris addresses issues common in all families with daughters:  friends, dating, personal appearance, and preparing for the roles she’ll have as a woman.  Michael Farris challenges fathers to take their unique opportunity to train daughters for life’s challenges - in ways that only a dad can.  Originally published as How a Man Prepares His Daughters for Life, it now includes new material on relating to an adult daughter.  Click here
 
She Calls Me Daddy
By Robert Wolgemuth
Building on seven critical foundation elements - protecting your daughter, teaching the art of conversation, expressing affection, disciplining appropriately, creating laughter, instilling faith in God, and demonstrating proper conduct - Wolgemuth suggests was to actually get to know your “little” girl.  Click here

Daughters and Dads:  Building a Lasting Relationship    
By Chap and Dee Clark
Most men are at a loss when it comes to relating to their teenage daughters.  Here's practical help that will nurture your relationship with your teen and help her grow into a godly woman.  Filled with letters from adolescent girls to their dads, this book offers guidance to fathers struggling to understand their changing role in a daughter's life.  Click here
 
Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty
By Dannah Gresh
We live in the age of low-rise jeans, belly-button rings, and backless shirts.  Many girls and young women today could not even define the word modesty, let alone tell you how to live it out.  But Dannah Gresh has a new message for them:  modesty itself is a delicate yet formidable power.  In Secret Keeper, she teaches that modesty not only issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue, but it also expresses your love for and obedience to God.  Click here
 
Future Men
By Douglas Wilson
How do we build our sons to be tough but not arrogant?  Mannered but not soft?  Imaginative but not lazy?  Bold but not hollow? Future Men is a Christian guide to raising strong, virtuous sons, contrary to the effeminacy and sentimentalism of contemporary culture.  As we look to Scripture for patterns of masculinity for our sons, we find them manifested perfectly in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Click here
 
Raising a Modern Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood
By Robert Lewis
In a society where the definition of manhood has become increasingly blurred, this book provides a clear understanding of mature masculinity.  Lewis’ suggestions are practical and provide tools, methods and ideas to help raise a godly man.  Click here

Preparing Your Son for Every Man's Battle
By Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker with Mike Yorkey
Now there’s help you can trust:  Preparing Your Son for Every Man’s Battle.  The authors behind the best-selling “Every Man” series have put together all the resources and guidance you need to experience frank, thorough, and natural conversations with your son about sexual integrity.  They offer an effective new communication process that ensures a deep, abiding relationship between you and your son as he moves into his teen years and beyond.  Equip your young man with the biblical information and spiritual insights he needs to stand strong, overcome temptation, and experience the blessings of godly obedience… for the rest of his life.  Click here

From Father to Son: Showing Your Boy How to Walk with Christ
By Chap Clark
Walking beside your son on the Journey.  Chap Clark shares the marks of a disciple to show dads what to aim for, the goals of discipleship to help dads and sons maintain focus, and ways fathers can pass their faith on to their sons.  Dads will learn how to: Encourage uniqueness, avoid the "do nots", comfort disappointment, motivate growth and much more!  Helping your son grow in his faith is the most important task you have as a father.  The author invites you to “read this book with eyes wide open to what God would have for you and your son.  Pray as you go.  Find a few guys to walk together with as you deal with the issues I bring up.  And most of all, be encouraged.”  Click here
 

Teaching True Love to a Sex-at-age 13 Generation
By Eric & Leslie Ludy
No parent wants to admit that their child -even their well-educated, well-grounded, Christian child -could be having consensual sex before graduating middle school.  Promise rings, parental contracts and disease warnings provide but meager defense against a culture overrun with weapons of mass seduction.  While many factors contributing to the misguided messages received by children stand outside the realm of parental control-music videos, film, fashion-others, like the meaning of true love, can, and should be fostered at home.  Eric and Leslie Ludy, authors of the bestselling "When God Writes Your Love Story", present the shocking, unvarnished realities of today's sexual climate but they balance the bitter pill with a large dose of hopeful, practical advice for parents.  Click here
 
Love to Eat, Hate to Eat
By Elyse Fitzpatrick
While not addressing parents and children explicitly, it addresses eating problems that often begin in childhood, including overeating and undereating (“anorexia” and “bulimia”).  Click here
 
Bringing out the Winner in Your Child
By John Croyle
In raising more than 1,500 boys and girls at his Big Oak Ranch, former football All-American John Croyle has learned how to provide children with the love, stability, protection, and wisdom they need to become successful adults.  His experiences over three decades of working with them form the basis for this book.  Croyle offers positive principles of parenting that will help you, indeed, bring out the winner in your child.  Click here
 
Real Family Values: Leading Your Family into the 21st Century with Clarity and Conviction
By Robert Lewis
This rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where "family values" no longer seem to exist.  If anything, today's community standards threaten the family.  Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce is cheap and easy; "safe sex" is promoted instead of abstinence; parental authority is undermined; sex roles are confused.  For children, such cultural chaos is crippling.  But in Real Family Values, parents will learn how to sort through today's moral confusion, remove it from their homes, and change the world by zeroing in on the part they love most:  their families.  Click here
 
Parenting Today’s Adolescent
By Dennis and Barbara Rainey
"FamilyLife Today" host Dennis Rainey and his wife, Barbara, offer parents a proven plan for connecting with their adolescents and preparing them for the teen years.  You will be encouraged by their biblically-based insight on peer pressure, music, grades, dating, sex, discipline, and more.  Includes special single-parent sections.   Also recommended is his book, Building Strong Families.  Click here
 
The Shaping of a Christian Family
By Elisabeth Elliot
Using examples from her own childhood, the author shows how to do that in terms of trust, discipline, courtesy, and teaching by example.  Parents seeking guidance for raising godly children will appreciate Elliot's emphasis on:  daily Bible reading and prayer, clear instructions on parental expectations, seeking instruction in Scripture and applying these to questions asked and answers given, and benefiting from the model of a Godly and happy home.  Click here
 
What the Bible Says About Parenting: Biblical Principles for Raising Godly Children
By John MacArthur
This is not a book on child psychology, nor is it proposing a new parenting method.   It is simply presenting the principles of biblical parenting with as much clarity as possible.  Click here
 
Family Practice: God’s Prescription for a Healthy Home
By Sproul, R.C., ed.
This book is a great introduction into understanding the biblical concept of the covenants and how they relate to the family.  Each chapter is written by a different author, such as R.C. Sproul Jr., his father, Douglas and Nancy Wilson, Elizabeth Elliot, Franklin Sanders, Edna Gerstner, and others.  Click here
 
Faith-Shaped Kids: Helping Your Child Grow Spiritually
By Steve and Valerie Bell
A practical tool to help parents maximize their relationships with their children in such a way as to draw them to faith.  Filled with life lessons and useful suggestions, this resource helps readers ride out the roller-coaster ride called parenting.  Click here
 
Parenting with Kingdom Purpose

By Ken Hemphill and Richard Ross
“What if we raise our children to gain the world but in the process they forfeit their souls?” ask the writers of Parenting with Kingdom Purpose (True Love Waits founder Richard Ross and best-selling author Ken Hemphill). Indeed, children are a constant reminder of God’s goodness. In that light, Christian parents are called to celebrate and nurture the unique personality traits and talents of each precious one with a gracious and eternal perspective. Yet studies indicate 70 percent of teenagers from evangelical homes will drop out of church within two years after high school graduation. What the world has to offer will win their closer attention. Parenting with Kingdom Purpose looks at Bible teaching and the recent National Study of Youth and Religion to shape a fresh approach to raising children that cuts through the chaos of modern life and brings families closest to each other and the Lord.  Click here
 
30 Days:  Turning The Hearts of Parents & Teenagers Toward Each Other
By Richard Ross
A devotional designed to re-open the lines of communication and help rebuild as well as deepen family relationships. Starting with just ten minutes each evening, parents and teens find a quiet place and, by candlelight, open and alternately read five cards, each designed to build heart connections. One mother called it “an incredible experience; eye-opening, tear-jerking, and heart-warming all at the same time.”  Why does it work? The authors drew not only on their extensive professional experience, but also on their personal desire to better relate to their own teenage children. So, as the title says, this resource turns hearts, because it came from the heart.   Click here
 
Financial Guide for Single Parents
By Larry Burkett
This interactive workbook helps guide you step by step through the budget process using practical tips and ideas.  Features realistic profiles and case studies that show how to overcome financial struggles and offers solutions to the most common questions.  The appendix includes personalized forms for creating a budget and tracking expenses.  Click here
 
Living with Teenagers Magazine
Order a subscription from Lifeway.  This magazine gives a hands-on instruction for issues parents face.  It includes guidance to avoid common parenting mistakes, unique insights into the inner world of teens, practical tips for raising godly teens, and wise counsel from experts in the field.   Click here
 
Recommended Magazines to Subscribe to for your Teenager:
(a great Christmas or Birthday idea!)
 
Brio Magazine
What do faith, fashion and fun have in common?  Brio magazine!  It's packed with feature articles and stories that encourage teen girls 12-16 to make godly choices.  www.briomag.com

 
Brio & Beyond Magazine
Brio & Beyond is a segment of Brio which contains articles and information that will meet the needs of 16-to 21-year-old girls.
 
Breakaway
In Breakaway magazine, guys 13 and older have somewhere to turn when peer pressure and growing pains collide with doing the right thing.  With awesome graphics, hysterical columns and inspiring articles, it's one cool read!
 
Order Brio, Brio & Beyond, and Breakaway magazines through Focus on the Family:  1-800-232-6459
 
Teen Virtue:  Real Issues, Real Life... A Teen Girl's Survival Guide
Laid out in a stylish magazine, Teen Virtue tackles the top 40 issues teen girls face such as "Staying in line when you're online,"  and "Girl Politics."  This is a paperback book.  Order through www.lifeway.com/vickicourtney