Winning the Drug War at Home [Paperback]

Kathy Pride (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 11, 2006

Winning the Drug War at Home is written in devotional format. Each chapter contains a narrative and four devotional entries related to the chapter theme.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Kathy has a heart for ministry and a heart for the Lord. Her writing will inspire those sitting on the sidelines to get up and get on with making a difference for God's kingdom.

-STEVE ARTERBURN Founder New Life Ministries. Author of Every man's Battle and Healing Is a Choice

A gripping account of how Hope, Faith, and Love restore a family that has been torn apart by their two teenagers's boys substance abuse problems

                                                                                                                      -CHUCK COLSON

Founder Prison Fellowship Ministries, Author of How Shall We Now Live? and The Good Life

Parents who have teens struggling with substance abuse will find hope in this book. Kathy pride writes as a parent who knows the pain, disappointment, and frustration of trying to help teens that don't always want help. She also knows the rewards of perseverance and trust in God. It's not an easy parental journey, but this book will be a healthful companion.                      - GARY CHAPMAN Author of The Five Love Languages

About the Author

Kathy Pride is a writer,speaker and parent educator. Kathy and her four children and husband live in Danville,Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: AMG Publishers (April 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899570828
• ISBN-13: 978-0899570822
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,223,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hope for parents!, April 19, 2006

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning the Drug War at Home (Paperback)

The Pride family has four children. Second child Matt was arrested for possession of marijuana use. The system wanted to send him to a "boot camp" after he didn't follow the rules and earlier treatment failed. Matt's mother fund a therapeutic wilderness program that the system finally approved.

Any parent can learn from this book, written with a Christian focus, if you are dealing with a child who is acting out in damaging ways--to him/herself, the family, the home, and the parent's marriage.

The author does a good job of describing her reactions as a "controlling mother" to his behavior. She found when they went through this experience with Matt, there was nothing to read on the subject--so she wrote it.

We "live with" Matt and his parents through his arrest, first treatment, the wilderness program and then after-care.

As a woman new to a strong faith, she ends each chapter with H-O-P-E: Holy Scripture, Observation, Pray, Encouragement. These points really sum up the chapter--and gave hope.

The Pride family is not the first and will not be the last to go suffer along with a child who makes bad choices related to drug or alcohol use and addiction and the dysfunction, lying and rage that often rides along.

Son Matt grew through his crisis as did the entire family, causing Kathy to change her way of parenting and the couple to improve their communication and decision making.

This is a real walk-in-my-moccasins story that many families can relate to. Often what happens to the rest of the family while one child is acting out is dismissed or not acknowledged. This book does. Matt's problems become everyone's problems, with people taking sides, including grandparents.

The author used Matt's letters home and the parents' letters to him as a way to tell how both sides were feeling--how each saw what had happened. A secondary big problem was that the mother and father didn't always agree on what was best.

Now a few years later Matt seems to be doing well as is the couple and the other children.

Armchair Interviews says: This book can give parents hope by their words and support from biblical references and knowledge that God always has a plan.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A testament of the healing powers of faith, family support, and love unfolds, June 11, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning the Drug War at Home (Paperback)

Winning the Drug War at Home is the autobiography of a Christian mother who catches her seventeen-year-old son using marijuana. Set over a sixteen-month period, Winning the Drug War at Home follows the sentencing of the drug- abusing son to a therapeutic wilderness program in Utah, culminating with his departure for college. Excerpts of letters that the son wrote while in Utah offer the perspective of the teenager, in addition to the point of view of the parents in the main narration. Winning the Drug War at Home reflects the author's devout faith in God, and her struggles wrestling with a family crisis; a testament of the healing powers of faith, family support, and love unfolds.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Winning the drug war at home, May 1, 2006

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Dr. Stephanie Meloy (Northeastern Pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning the Drug War at Home (Paperback)

This author is so easy to read. She has flare and a style that is smooth and draws you in. I read it in one evening - valuable information that I will use in counseling my own patients and parenting my own children.