New Parenting Book, “Delight in Your Child’s Design” Helps Frustrated Parents Recognize, Enjoy, and Affirm Children’s Unique Interests and Abilities

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.

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