My Favorite parenting books and books that give me inspiration!

Good Morning from Texas!
We had another cold spell here. We thought it was going to freeze Sunday morning so Sabbath eveing we covered all our tomatoes, but then it never, it just got down to 36F. Our garden is still very wet, so havent got in there to plant anyhting eles, and I can't even hoe!!

You will notice over to the right of my blog I have added somthing new, a list of my favorite parenting books, and other books that give me inspiration and encouragement as a wife and mother. I wanted to share them on my bolg so others may also find them helpful. As I see it we never can get too much encouagement! Here i will briefly tell about each book in the oder they are listed, and you will beable to see if it would be a good book for you.

Above Rubies, By Nancy Campbell. Above Rubies is a magazine to encourage women in thier high calling as wifes , mothers, and homemakers. Its purpose is to up hold and strenghthen family life and to raise the standard of God's truth in the nation. The Name has been chosen from Proverbs 31:10. To learn more about Nancy Campbell and the Above Rubies minstry visit the web site I have on the right, just above the book list. There you can also sign up to recive the magazine. This is my all time favorite christain magazine, and eagerlly await the arrival of each one! I highly recomend this to all mothers! You will be trully blessed!!

Baby Wise, by Gary Ezzo and Robert Baucknam, MD. This books main goal is to help parents to get thier babies on a schudle and to sleep through the night by just a few months of age, weather nursing or bottel fed. But this book strongly supports nursing. I found its advice very helpful, and having the baby ona nursing schudle was a life saver for me, but my youngest at 21 months is still nursing at night!! But atleast i now have her down to only one time, that must count for somting!!

ME ? Obey Him? by Elizabeth Rice Handford. This book is about God's plan for wifes to be obedient and submissive to thier husbands. Very in depth and packed full of scriptuers. It is written very well, and deffently a must read if you are struggeling in this area. It will make you feel so good about your role as a godly submisseve wife and not just a door mat as the world wants us to feel. By obeying our husbands we are obeying God, and as wifes we have a very powerful and importain role!!

Power Of A Praying Wife, by Stormie Omartain. This book may be geared more towards struggeling marraiges, but is wonderful for any wife. It teaches wifes how to pray for thier husbands and to hold thier marraiges strong in any circumstance. It covers 30 differnt topics that concern our husbands and how to pray for our husbands about each of those issues. As we all know no matter how wonderful our husbands are ,they are not perfect. This book helps us as wifes how to deal with those imperfect ways through Love and in Pray. The author strongly believes that divorce is not an option, and thats another thing I really like about the book
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Power of Mother Hood, by Nancy Campbell ( author of Above Rubies). I will write a piece from the introduction of this book. " This manual takes you in to the scriptures to see God's heart and mind for women and mothers. The word of God is so wonderful.It does not leave us guessing about what to do, even in the most practical matters of mother hood. All the power we need to fullfill this great calling is found in the Word of God, and all the wisdom we need for this mighty task is found in His Precious word." I would have to say this is my top favorite book in the list! Its very good!
Supper Nanny, by Jo Frost.For all of you that have watched the Supper Nanny show on T.V , know about Jo frost's methods of child training and correction. Well thats what this book is all about. It puts all of what she does in the show in the book , step by step, and age by age child training and setting up schudels for chidren. Very good book for mothers of little ones. I found lost of helpful advice in it.

The Mission of Mother Hood , by Sally Clarkson. I will write excatly whats on the back of this book. " Do you long for your home to be lifegiving and peacful? Is it your desire to pass on a legacy of righteousness to your children? Do you struggle to balance the duties of mother hood with a loving relationship with your children? Would you like creative ideas and direction for keeping your child's heart open to you and to the Lord? Discover how understanding God's purpose and design can empower you to be the mother you long to be." " No calling is greater,nobler, or more fullfilling than that of mother hood. Every day, as we nutuer out children, mothers infulence eternal destniy as no one eles can. Tracgically ,today's culture minimizes the vital importiance of a mother's role. By cathching a vision of God's origanal desing and allowing it to shape your life, you can resicover the joy and fullfillment that can be found in the strategic role to which God in all His wisdom has called you, for a purpose far greater than you can even imangine." A very good read!! Learn about the whole heart ministries and the rest of books offered by Sally Clarkson, at thier site on the list above the books.

To Train Up A Child , by Debie and Micheal Pearl . This book is about training your child to achieve total and instant aboedience, and to eliminate spanking. Of course they do believe in use of the rod but with proper taining will cut down on the need of that. This book shows you how to train your children so they will be a great joy and blessing to you. In one spot in the book it saids "how to 'house proof' your child, not 'child proof 'your house" Very good basic child training advice. Find out more about the No greater Joy Ministries at thier site. (Link above the book list on the right)

Even though I highly recomend each of these books, it does not mean I agree 100 percent with everthing in the books. As we need to do with all things , we need to take the good and leave the bad, and see how it compares with the scriptues. Well hope that you find this to be helpful to you. Just want to add also that any of you that are farmillar with these books I, would love for you to comment on them, what you liked or didn't like about them.
Well I am so glad I had this oppurtuinty to post this this. I started writing at 5: 30 a.m and it is now 6:30 a.m, and the childen are still sound asleep!! The time on the blog is wrong, I will change it when i figured it out if I can. In the mean time it makes me look like a real supper mom!! In just a few hours I go to get a wisdom tooth removed, and I am nervous about it.Then next week I am to get the last one removed! Ouch! But if I can make it through child birth I can make it through teeth pulling!! Will let you know how it went on my next post. For now, take care and God Bless! Mae