Raising Children on Purpose: Helping Your Children Find Their God-Given Calling (Updated and Expanded) - Paperback

by Wesley H. Fleming (Author)

Parent by Accident or Parent on Purpose?Your child has a God-given purpose that is too important to be left to chance. As parents, we have a sacred opportunity to help our children find their way--the way they were created to go. When a child has insight into God's special plan for his life, he will be more passionate about following Jesus, better able to focus his energies on what is most important, and equipped to make wiser decisions.
Raising Children on Purpose will help you:

• Assess your child's natural talents and gifts
• Recognize and encourage your child's interests
• Determine the point at which gifting and interest overlap
• Discipline your child in positive ways that inspire confidence
• Promote emotional health and good decision making in your child
• Prepare your child for career choices

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Who's Raising Your Children?Sometimes they are a handful-rowdy and rambunctious. Sometimes they are affectionate-ready for a hug.But always, they are your children, filled with the potential and promise that youth brings. What should be done with that potential?As parents, we want our children to be motivated, goal-oriented, responsible and passionate about their life and faith...we want them to know the way they are to go. Raising Children on Purpose will help you: Assess your child's natural talents and gifts Recognize and encourage your child's spiritual passion Determine the point at which gifting and interest overlap Discover your child's calling in lifeLearn the seven basic needs every child has and how you can fulfill them.Disciplining your children can be an expression of love for them. Wes Fleming's Raising Children on Purpose offers practical advice in an easy-to-understand manner with a sprinkling of humor. By following these loving guidelines, your children can become PEAK PERFORMERS!

Author Biography

Wesley H. Fleming is founder and director of Coming Home Ministries, a curriculum and conferencing ministry to parents and Christian educators that purposes to strengthen the bond between church and home and help parents become their children's primary spiritual influence. He has worked in the field of Christian education for twenty-five years as a pastor and ministers extensively in parent and teacher training. He has been published in Family Times, Parenting Today, Vision New England, and Children's Ministry Magazine. He is currently the pastor of Eastside Vineyard Church in New York State. Mr. Fleming is married and has three children.