How We Love Our Kids: The Five Love Styles of Parenting - Softcover

Yerkovich, Milan; Yerkovich, Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307729249 ISBN 13: 9780307729248

Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group, 2011

Synopsis

One Small Change in How You Love One Big Change in your Kids Having problems with your kids? What if you are the problem and you just can't see it? How We Love Our Kids offers a unique approach, to help you as a parent transform your kids by making specific changes in how you love. It's the only book specifically for parents that reveals the unseen forces that shape every interaction with your kids. * Identify which of the five love styles you have. * Discover the surprising dynamics that shape your parenting. * Get rid of your "buttons" so your kids can't push them. * Create a close connection with your kids that will last a lifetime. * Learn the seven gifts every child needs. Based on years of research in the area of attachment and bonding, How We Love Our Kids shows parents how to overcome the predictable challenges that arise out of the five love styles and helps parents cultivate a secure, deep connection with a child of any age. Retool your reactions and refocus on how you love. Start today. Watch your kids flourish and thrive as they receive what was missing in your love. With four self-assessments and powerful application tools to use with children of all ages.

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Review:

Milan and Kay provide us with the tools of self-awareness which can enable us to consciously examine the love styles of the past and become conscious of the stored feelings and emotions that we carry forward into parenting. This book will now be one of my primary reading recommendations. --Michael W. Shannon, MD

Another home run for Milan and Kay Yerkovich! --Sherrie Eldridge, speaker and author of "Twenty Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed"

After reading this book, our first thoughts were, Every parent needs to read this book--regardless of the ages of their children, and, Reading this book could not only protect children from the pains of growing up but also heal the parents' hearts. This book offers insightful, practical ways of understanding children and parenting. We recommend it. --Roger and Becky Tirabassi, authors of "Let Love Change Your Life"

About the Author:

Milan Yerkovich is a weekly talk show host on the "New Life Live!" radio program. An ordained pastor with a master's degree in biblical studies, he has been helping couples and families build healthier relationships for more than twenty-five years. Previously a pastoral counselor for The Center for Individual and Family Therapy, Milan now teaches seminars on relationships and intimacy and is cofounder of Relationship 180, a non-profit ministry for Christian leaders and laity. Kay Yerkovich is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a master's degree in counseling. She has been using

About this edition

• Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0307729249
• ISBN 13: 9780307729248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304