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Marsha Grahek’s Powerful Parenting: Hope and Healing for Every Parent\/Child Relationship moves from building to teaching to fighting for a child. Ebook $0.99 through July 31.<\/div>\n

Some parenting books are written for the easy years. Powerful Parenting<\/em> is written for the ones where you don’t know what else to try.<\/p>\n

Kharis Publishing today released Powerful Parenting: Hope and Healing for Every Parent\/Child Relationship<\/em> by Marsha Grahek, whose work has centered on children who struggle with their behavior and their sense of worth — the ones others have often given up on.<\/p>\n

The book is organized in three movements. A Time for Building<\/strong> covers Christ’s example in parenting, balancing rules with relationship, discipline techniques that are planned rather than reactionary, listening and communication, support systems, and making memories. A Time for Teaching<\/strong> addresses raising a child to love, to be honest, to respect people who are different, to understand money, to respect themselves and others, and to endure hard circumstances. A Time for Fighting<\/strong> goes where most books stop: the problem child, minimizing the damage of divorce, a child failing at school, physical and mental illness, and finally healing.<\/p>\n

Throughout, the approach is concrete. Real stories rather than theory. Specific techniques — time-out, contracts, role-playing, paraphrasing, nonverbal cues — with clear guidance on when each one fits, because the right balance depends on the individual child.<\/p>\n

“When a child feels safe, they take a chance on trusting you,” said Grahek. “That’s when change starts. Not before.”<\/p>\n

The final chapters turn toward restoration, locating the deepest healing of children and families in an encounter with Jesus and a genuine commitment to forgive. The book closes with a prayer for one’s children.<\/p>\n

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