Beloved fiction and nonfiction author, Tricia Goyer,
is back, this time sharing her knowledge on the challenging process of
parenting, loving, and supporting a child with anger
After raising three biological children, Goyer and her
husband answered the call of adoption, welcoming six more girls and one boy
into their hearts and home over the next several years. Throughout their family’s
growth,the couple learned to face the overwhelming anger they found in some of
their children with compassion, grace, and patience. Tricia Goyer’s journey
from frustration and hurt to understanding is chronicled in her new book, Calming
Angry Kids: Help and Hope for Parents in the Whirlwind.
Struggling parents will find
refreshing honesty, vulnerability, and grace in Goyer’s work, and learn to reshape
their own responses from irritation (and, sometimes, anger) to helpful
compassion. Engaging and personal, Calming
Angry Kids breaks down the barrier of embarrassment that often isolates
parents of angry children, while offering concrete, tested suggestions for
engaging with kids in healthy, nurturing ways, as well as managing one’s own
expectations and responses for angry kids who may or may not be struggling to
cope with a trauma.
Parents who’ve felt helpless in the path of their children’s
tornado of anger will learn and grow with Goyer as she recounts her experiences
in developing a familial environment of peace, gentleness, and healthy
communication.
"If you are parenting an angry child, you’d
give anything for tools and ideas to help your child,” says Goyer. “Yet where
do you find them? It’s not as if every parent in your cul-de-sac faces these
same issues. Sometimes you feel isolated and alone. That’s one reason I wrote
this book—so you won’t feel alone. Or frustrated. Or hopeless. I’m writing to
you as a mom who’s experienced all these feelings... Many positive
things have happened in my home between those angry, drama-filled days and
now... Of all the things I may have achieved in life, learning to calm angry
kids is truly my biggest achievement."
Finally, each chapter concludes with suggested action steps
for readers and their children, preceded by reflection questions that will
foster the same compassion and calmness that Goyer has learned to seek in her
interactions with her children.
About Tricia Goyer:
An accomplished and accessible author of over 70
fiction and nonfiction books, Tricia Goyer speaks truth of the challenges and
rewards of family life and parenting.
In addition to earning the status of a USA-Today
Best-selling Author, two Carol Awards, and a Retailer’s Best Award, Goyer was
also an ECPA Gold-Medallion Nominee and a Christy Award Nominee and won Writer
of the Year from the Mt. Hermon Christian Writers Conference.A sought-after
speaker, she has spoken at events such as MomCon, Raising Generations, and
Teach Them Diligently conferences and is host of the podcast, Walk It Out.
Ministry remains a large part of Goyer’s life, as
she serves a Teen MOPS Group in inner-city Little Rock.
A loving wife and mother of ten, Tricia Goyer’s
experiences with parenting adopted and biological children, homeschooling, and balancing
each area of her full, rewarding life often inform her works. With her
busyness, she understands the importance of making every word count.
Website: www.triciagoyer.com
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1 comment:
Sounds like an informative book for parents to use.
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