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Vicki Courtney
From the cradle to college, tell your daughters the truth about life before they believe the culture's lies. For mothers with girls newborn to eighteen, Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter is simply a must-have book. Youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in their daughters' formative years. To fully address the dynamic social and spiritual issues and influencers at hand, several chapters are written for each of the conversations.
Paul David Tripp
Are you hoping to merely survive your teenagers? With compassion, wit, and wisdom, Tripp uncovers the heart issues affecting families during the often-chaotic adolescent years. Gain assurance of God's provision for parenting success, and discover ways to seize the countless opportunities to deepen communication, learn, and grow with your teens.
Susan Alexander Yates
Susan Yates, best-selling author of And Then I Had Kids and How to Like the Ones You Love, now offers encouragement and guidance to parents of teens and preteens. Drawing from her experiences raising five teenagers, she offers parents a unique blend of stories, compassion, and advice. Yates empathizes with parents whose children struggle with communication, peer pressure, and faith-every parent of a teen!-while also considering teenagers' perspectives and needs.
Stephen Arteburn
This workbook will help you accept your calling and experience God's blessing as the spiritual leader to your wife and children.
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
What the Award-Winning Boundaries Has Done for Adult Relationships Boundaries with Kids Will Do for You and Your Children Here at last is the help you need for raising your kids to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend take you through the ins and outs of establishing family boundaries and of instilling the kind of character in your children that will help them lead balanced, productive, and fulfilling adult lives.
John Townsend
In this exciting new book, Dr. Townsend gives important keys for establishing healthy boundaries—the bedrock of good relationships, maturity, safety, and growth for teens and the adults in their lives. The book offers help in raising your teens to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.
James Dobson
Andy Stanley
With only 24 hours in each day, we simply can't fit everything in. And what we choose to cheat is a clear announcement of our values. Restore your vision of what really matters -- and gain guidance for making courageous decisions about your time.
Jeannie St. John Taylor
Topics include 'What Legacy Are You Leaving?' 'Modeling Character' and others.
Chap Clark and Dee Clark
Parents worry they don't have the understanding or training to be able to care for their kids in a world that is increasingly superficial, politicized, and performance driven. Disconnected makes the concepts and strategies described in the bestselling Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers accessible to parents. After the overwhelming response to Hurt, authors Chap and Dee Clark here equip parents with an up-to-date, realistic parenting book that doesn't ignore the harsh realities of adolescent life. It builds a foundation for parents by describing exactly how things have changed, takes them through the various developmental stages their children go through, and gives them workable paradigms for parenting.
Dennis and Barbara Rainey
Examine the basics of why children need discipline and how to raise a disciplined child, from a biblical perspective.
Gary Chapman
According to the authors, each child expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. A parent's love language may be totally different from that of his or her child, which causes hurt feelings and misunderstandings. With the help of this book, adults can discover their child's primary language and learn what they can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in their child's emotions and behavior.
Shaunti Feldhahn
Kenneth Boa & John Alan Turner
Parenting is about more than molding the behavior of our kids. It's about influencing a child's heart and mind. Hearts and Minds shows parents the most effective way to influence a child's heart. This book applies the principles of Christian worldview in How Now Shall We Live to the process of raising children. It deals with issues like educational choices, how to handle the teaching of non-Christian worldview in secular schools, and how Christian worldview informs parenting choices.
Chap Clark
Dennis Rainey
Learn how to improve your communication, be a good disciplinarian, and build character in your child.
Anne and David Harper
Parents are the primary instructors children look to for spiritual guidance. This a huge responsibility that leaves many Christian parents wanting concrete, practical assistance for their children's spiritual training. This book takes parents from preparation into the teaching of seven key virtues.http://www.xtremestudents.org/uploaded/images_browns_bridge/lightfire.jpg
Mark Oestreicher & Scott Rubin
Everything in a middle schooler’s world seems to be changing— body, emotions, brains, faith. They’re even noticing more of a difference between the way guys and girls are wired up. With quick, funny, and easy-to-read stories, explanations, and advice, middle school ministry veterans Mark Oestreicher and Scott Rubin will help young teens understand who they are and who they’re becoming—and how to survive all those changes.
Kurt Johnston & Mark Oestreicher
Life and faith can be hard when you’re in middle school. But this book gives you all the tips and secrets you need to really grasp your faith and keep hold of it.
Kurt Johnston & Mark Oestreicher
Everything is changing—including the way your family interacts. This book will give you secrets and tips to help make your family even better and survive the changes that come along with middle school.
Kurt Johnston & Mark Oestreicher
It’s your faith, why not own it. The Middle School Survival Series will help you answer all the new questions that you have as you journey through middle school.
Mark Oestreicher & Scott Rubin
Kurt Johnston & Mark Oestreicher
It’s your faith, why not own it. The Middle School Survival Series will help you answer all the new questions that you have as you journey through middle school.
John Rosemond
Picture respectful, responsible, obedient children who entertain themselves without television or video games, do their own homework, and have impeccable manners. A pie-in-the-sky fantasy? Not so, says family psychologist and bestselling author John Rosemond. Any parent who so desires can grow children who fit that description -- happy, emotionally healthy children who honor their parents and their families with good behavior and do their best in school. In the 1960s, American parents stopped listening to their elders when it came to child rearing and began listening instead to professional experts. Since then, raising children has become fraught with anxiety, stress, and frustration. The solution, says John, lies in raising children according to biblical principles, the same principles that guided parents successfully for hundreds of years. They worked then, and they still work now!
Shannon Ethridge
Stephen Arteburn & Fred Stoeker
The authors behind the best-selling “Every Man” series have put together all the resources and guidance you need to experience frank, thorough, and natural conversations with your son about sexual integrity. They offer an effective new communication process that ensures a deep, abiding relationship between you and your son as he moves into his teen years and beyond. Equip your young man with the biblical information and spiritual insights he needs to stand strong, overcome temptation, and experience the blessings of godly obedience…for the rest of his life.
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
Henry Cloud & John Townsend
A workbook for parents of school-age children (6-12) that accompanies the book Raising Great Kids. The goal of parenting, according to the authors, is to build biblical character into their children.
Hal Edward Runkel
Ted Tripp
Grounded in the Bible's divine plan for parenting, this guide defines your goals as a parent and provides the scriptural methods for accomplishing them. There is also a leader's guide with discussion questions if you wanted to use this for your small group.
Meg MeekerStrong Fathers, Strong Daughters
In today’s increasingly complicated world, it’s often difficult for parents to connect with their daughters–and especially so for fathers. In this unique and invaluable guide, Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty years’ experience counseling girls, reveals that a young woman’s relationship with her father is far more important than we’ve ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her father’s attention, protection, courage, and wisdom. Dr. Meeker shares the ten secrets every father needs to know in order to strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her life–and his own–for the better.
Grace Ketterman
Imparting healthy attitudes and solid information about sex to children is one of the most challenging aspects of parenthood. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Grace H. Ketterman has been helping parents give the best and most accurate information and guide their children in sexual responsibility. She gives parents the perfect words for explaining the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of sex, in age-specific increments from babyhood through adolescence. This updated edition includes chapters on special issues that are a part of our social and cultural environment, such as sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality. Going way beyond "the talk," Dr. Ketterman gives parents the tools they need to pass on a Christ-centered understanding of one of God's most wonderful gifts.
Rick Osborne
How it must grieve God when children are not taught to pray. Yet, how He must delight when children approach Him in innocence and simple trust, the way He wants all of us to. Simply written, this new edition of Teaching Your Child How to Pray gives practical suggestions on how to introduce children to a life of prayer. With tips on becoming a prayer mentor, leading by example, and teaching the practical, everyday elements and processes of prayer, this unique resource will bless and challenge all families.
Jim Burns
Learn to live, laugh, love, and play together as a family. When you learn the 10 essential principles for creating a happy, close-knit household, you’ll discover a family that shines with love for God and one another!
Les and Leslie Parrott
When it comes to parenting, who you are is more important than what you do. The Parent You Want to Be shows you how to select your top four or five “intentional traits” and pass them along to your children. It’s a revolutionary approach that you won’t find in any other parenting book.
Ron L. Deal
Ron Deal provides seven effective, achievable steps toward building a healthy marriage and a workable and peaceful stepfamily. Exploding the myth of achieving a "blended family" he helps parents recognize the unique personality and place of each family member, honor the families of origin while establishing new traditions, and much more. Developed from Deal’s nationwide seminars on the topic, this material is equally useful for individuals, families, small groups, pastors, and counselors.
Weekly Talks | Books | DVD/Video | Audio | Articles | Leader Podcast | Glossary of Terms
Title Terms
Coach: provides accountability and support to small group leaders.
Host Team: greet new students and place them in groups.
Love Moves: high school students who serve in Xtreme.
Kitchen Team: prepare breakfast for leaders and students.
Small Group Leaders: consistent mentor, resource, and guardrail in a student's life.
Service Sayings
Students: 6th-8th graders; we don't call them kids!
Xtreme: the middle school (6th-8th grade) environment
Multiply: when groups get too large, we "multiply" those students out into two groups.
On Deck: where new students go their first two weeks in Xtreme.
Parent Interaction: opportunity for parents to see Xtreme and talk with staff and leaders.
Promotion Sunday: first Sunday in Xtreme for rising 6th graders.
Xtreme Baptism: baptism services in Xtreme for students and leaders.
Event Expressions
Boot Camp: summer camp for rising 6th graders and their leaders.
UpStreet Invasion: rising 6th grade parents and students come to tour Xtreme.
Fall Retreat: camp at SharpTop for 7th and 8th graders and their leaders.
Walking Wisely Weekend: local camp where groups stay at host homes.
