New Parenting Book, “Delight in Your Child’s Design” Helps Frustrated Parents Recognize, Enjoy, and Affirm Children’s Unique Interests and Abilities
Personality conflicts with children and the hurried pace of life often cause even the best moms and dads to feel frustrated or overwhelmed. Author Laurie Winslow Sargent enriches parent/child relationships, helping parents understand and appreciate the unique design, temperament, and abilities of their children. She offers fresh ideas so parents can convey affection and appreciation to kids through meaningful attitudes and actions.
Wheaton, IL (PRWEB) April 20, 2005 -- In “Delight in Your Child’s Design”,
released April 2005 in time for Mother’s Day by Tyndale House Publishers and
Focus on the Family, author Laurie Winslow Sargent blends humor with practical
advice in a person-to-person approach. “You are given an exclusive opportunity:
to nurture a child who is like no other,” Sargent reminds each reader and
listener to her radio interviews.
Sargent asks, “Do you marvel at your
child’s complex design, and recognize the privilege you have to help that child
reach his or her potential?“ She quotes Dr. Paul Wilson Brand, renowned hand
surgeon and author of “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”, who wrote that within
each cell are one hundred thousand genes containing instructions that “if
written out, would fill a thousand six-hundred-page books.”
Meanwhile,
Sargent acknowledges the reality of raising kids: “Balls are bigger and
bouncier, pictures on walls more breakable, and kids’ shrieks louder when we’re
stressed.” Understanding personalities better can help reduce that
stress.
She also reveals how temperamental differences affect the way
kids respond to discipline. “To one child, even a 5 minute time-out means
torture, because that child craves socialization. She’ll quickly beg for mercy,
promising to behave. To a take-charge kind of kid, time-out becomes a battle of
wills. He may refuse to come out, with a smirk on his face. But to a quiet
child, time-out may offer a bit of brief, necessary solitude.”
Julie Ann
Barnhill, author of “She’s Gonna Blow”, featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, says
Sargent’s book offers “scads of practical take-away suggestions for nurturing
the one-of-a-kind temperaments of your children.” She adds that it is “now #1 on
my list of recommended reading, both professionally and as a mom who loves to
pass along a great read."
Sargent’s writing strikes a chord with mothers
worldwide who long to feel closer to their children and enjoy them more. She has
received e-mails from readers in Canada, Kenya, and the Philippines, had her
articles reprinted in Malaysian, Polish, and Indonesian, and posted on a New
Zealand parenting site. “Delight in Your Child’s Design” is available in English
in at least ten countries, as is her former book “The Power of Parent-Child
Play” (2003, Tyndale).
Some fun free resources are available to
interested parents:
- At www.parentchildplay.com,
parents can read sample chapters and articles, hear an online archived radio
broadcast with parenting tips, and find links to other great parenting Web
sites. The events page includes upcoming author appearances at international
book conventions: BookExpo 2005 (Manhattan) and CBA 2005 (Denver).
- Site
visitors may request a mini-poster with the TEMPERAMENT ABCs (free if e-mailed;
if sent via airmail within the US, color printing and P&H is $2.00), to post
on their refrigerator and remind them daily of their children’s positive
attributes. Autographed books for gifts may also be ordered through this
site.
- At www.focusonyourchild.com, parents can subscribe to free
newsletters/audio CD’s available from Focus on Your Child, produced by Dr. Bill
Maier, Focus on the Family’s Psychologist in Residence. An interview with Laurie
Winslow Sargent is featured on the April 2005 audio CD, sent to 50,000 parents
of children ages birth to three.
- At www.oneplace.com, families will
find descriptions of broadcasts offering marriage and parenting tips, from
experts interviewed on Dr. Maier’s Weekend Magazine. The hour-long fast paced
program airs on over 850 stations nationwide, with over half a million
listeners. Keep an ear out for excerpts of Sargent’s interview on upcoming
broadcasts.
- At www.christianbookguides.com, readers may download free
discussion guides for book groups or parent support groups, including a guide to
“Delight in Your Child’s Design.”
About the Book
“Delight in Your
Child’s Design” helps parents of newborns through teens identify and appreciate
their children’s traits and abilities. (Paperback, $12.99, ISBN: 0842371303.)
About the Author
Laurie Winslow Sargent (www.parentchildplay.com)
resides in the Seattle area. She speaks frequently to parent groups including
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers International) on the topic of her former book,
“The Power of Parent-Child Play” (Hardcover, $16.97, 877-421-READ), which
describes how to overcome barriers to play. That book also offers tips for
adapting games, over a hundred “5-Minute-Fun” activities, and practical advice
from her magazine articles.
Sargent has been a published writer for
seventeen years, with sales to 24 publications, including Parenting, Today’s
Christian Woman, Christian Parenting Today and Writer’s Digest. Sargent has also
contributed to four other books and a flip calendar.
To schedule
speaking events or book-signings, or to inquire about reprint rights for
articles/book excerpts, contact the author via her Web site or Tyndale
publicist, Todd Starowitz, at 630-784-5397.
About the
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers (www.tyndale.com) publishes high
quality Christian fiction and nonfiction, including many New York Times best
sellers and today’s number #1 selling Bible, the “Life Application Study Bible”.
Focus on the Family (www.family.org) was started by psychologist Dr. James Dobson,
author of 18 best-selling books on marriage, parenting, and family. This
international organization encourages families worldwide through 10 separate
radio broadcasts, two television news features, 13 publications, 18 web sites
and many books and films. Focus on the Family Resources is The Marriage and
Parenting Imprint of Tyndale House Publishers.
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