Getting out of Your Kids' Faces and into Their Hearts [Paperback]

Valerie Bell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 1995

'You can enjoy your kids more, relax around them, and love them better' is the fresh message Valerie Bell has for parents feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities of raising children. Finally, here is a book that is not about how to manage, train, and discipline your children, but about how to have a relationship with them. Getting Out of Your Kids' Faces and into Their Hearts will guide you toward becoming a warm, nurturing parent.

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From the Author

Valerie Bell is the author of Reaching Out to Lonely Kids and Coming Back: Real-Life Stories of Courage from Spiritual Survivors. She is a popular conference speaker and Christian broadcaster. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with her husband, Steve. She says she is being "home schooled" in hands-on parenting by her two sons, Brendan and Justin

From the Back Cover

"You can enjoy your kids more, relax around them, and love them better" is the fresh message Valerie Bell has for parents feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities of raising children. Finally, here is a book that is not about how to manage, train, and discipline your children, but about how to have a relationship with them. Getting Out of Your Kids’ Faces and into Their Hearts will guide you toward becoming a warm, nurturing parent.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan (March 3, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310484510
• ISBN-13: 978-0310484516
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,264,083 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Valerie Bell is a conference speaker and the author of Getting Out of Your Kids' Faces and Into Their Hearts, and Reaching Out to Lonely Kids, and Made to Be Loved. She and her husband, Steve, live in Wheaton, Illinois. They have two grown sons.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The focus is on healthy parenting, not child-management!, February 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Getting out of Your Kids' Faces and into Their Hearts (Paperback)

I loved how Valerie so clearly identified the common (and serious) mistakes that many parents make, and then wonder what went wrong in their relationship with their children. If the parent will take the responsibility of resolving their own behavior problems, then child-management often takes care of itself. I especially appreciated the chapter entitled "The Adult Parent" because so many parents are "big bad baby bosses"-- totally self-focused and dominance oriented. What a dangerous thing! I also loved Valerie's sprinkling of Christian values and scriptural references. As a MOPS coordinator, I look forward to using this information to help other moms.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Being a parent is about children not you., July 20, 2000

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David (Peoria, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting out of Your Kids' Faces and into Their Hearts (Paperback)

This is a great book. Valerie Bell is right on target when she says that as a parent it is time for you to focus on your child and not your own childhood. So many thirty & forty year olds get caught up in their own issues that they do the same thing to their children, as they are complaining their parents did to them. Bell instructs the reader to move beyond themselves and focus on their children. AMEN! I got this book cause I have been fighting with my adolescent daughter and I realize some of that has been because of my life circumstances. I think that Bell gives practical, EASY tips for changing our parenting approach to build a healthy and loving relationship with our children. It gave me some new ideas for reconnecting with all my children.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent parenting resource, April 7, 2002

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Sara L. Johnson (Fillmore, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting out of Your Kids' Faces and into Their Hearts (Paperback)

I greatly appreciated Terry Bell's clear-cut, organized approach to offering common-sense guidelines for parents. Her practical advice to responsibly develop your own (the parent's) emotional and spiritual maturity as a means of providing what your child "needs" is sound, simple, and authoritative. I particularly enjoyed her honest examples of parental "short-comings" and her encouragement that it is never too late to pursue the kinds of changes that will improve your parent-child relationships. What a great resource for parents!