The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids

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A book review of The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids: a Simple Model for Developing Your Child’s Maturity – at Every Stage by Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey

A book review of The 5 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids: a Simple Model for Developing Your Child's Maturity - at Every Stage by Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey

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Northfield Publishing (2021)
Parenting
160 pages

Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This post contains affiliate links.

Summary: Joy-filled kids aren’t always happy kids, but they do know how to work for and wait for what is truly satisfying in life. In The Four Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids you will discover a tool box full of skills that you can use with your children to help them grow in maturity and live with greater joy.
 

These tools help your kids, from infants to teens, build skills like:

  • Regulating upset emotions so they can return to joy
  • Forming a stable identity that doesn’t change with each new emotion
  • Developing discernment to distinguish between what is satisfying and what is only temporarily pleasurable
  • Discovering heart values and not just living to please others
  • Building “joy bonds” rather than “fear bonds”

The skills you’ll learn in The Four Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids will not only help you parent your children well, but they will also help you grow joy in your family.

The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids

This little book is packed full of advice for helping your child to mature from infancy to adulthood. It’s 160 pages but they are small pages. This is actually a good thing because parents often don’t have time to read long parenting books. This one can be read in one day if you have the time. Or it can be read in little bits here and there.

It’s important to note that although the chapters say Infants, Children and Adults, the age range is bigger than normal. For example in the Infants section, children from birth to age 5 are talked about. The Children section is ages 6-12 and the Adults section is ages 13+.

The idea is based off of ABCD. Attunement, Building Bounce, Correcting with Care and Developing Disciplines Relationally. The book explains what this all means and how to put it into practice.

The authors also have a related book called The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages.

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