The Key to Your Child's Heart

Raise Motivated, Obedient, and Loving Children

Gary Smalley

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• eBook ISBN:
  9781418571870
• Year: 1995

A repeat bestseller for two decades, this child-rearing classic cuts to the heart of the anger and alienation that mar so many modern homes. In this ultimately practical book, Gary Smalley outlines effective steps for parents to open up a child that has shut them out. He describes family-tested ways for parents to set limits and enforce them, and he reveals the simple but powerful secret for achieving a close-knit family. Learn proven parenting methods that can spell the difference between an angry, rebellious, distant child and a happy, cooperative one.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• The Key to Your Child’s Heart
• 1. How to Overcome the Major Destroyer of Families
• 2. Parenting for Positive Results
• 3. Expressing Loving Support—The Most Important Aspect of Raising Children
• 4. Balancing Loving Support through Contracts
• 5. Giving Yourself the Freedom to Fail
• 6. Three Powerful Ways to Motivate Children
• 7. Nineteen Additional Ways to Motivate Children
• 8. The Secret of a Close-Knit Family
• Resources