Book review - No More Perfect Kids

If you've been following any of my social media accounts lately, you've seen that I've been posting a lot of great quotes from a fabulous new book that is hot off the press and available TODAY - No More Perfect Kids.

Did you read Jill Savage's last book, No More Perfect Moms? If so, you're familiar with the "perfection infection", a desire to appear like everything is perfect that invades our homes, lives, and parenting, instead of accepting and dealing with "real life" and difficult moments. This time, Jill's back with the help of Dr. Kathy Koch, focusing on how the perfection infection ruins parents' reality and acceptance of who God made our kids to be. Instead of perfection being our guide, the authors teach us how to achieve excellence instead of perfection in our parenting of our kids, foster their character and abilities through love and time, and help them find the purposes God created them to fulfill, cheering them on all the while.  And through all of it, the underlying theme is love for our kids for who they truly are, even when it's not what we expected.

This book is filled with general information on how to parent our children uniquely and in a loving but expecting style.  1 Corinthians 13, known as the "love chapter" in the Bible, is paraphrased beautifully from a parenting perspective.  Furthermore, the book is filled with practical tips on how to go about this sometimes daunting task.  My favorite part, though, are the additional helps given in the index - a list of feeling words to help our children put their feelings into words, a list of appropriate tasks by age, ways to pray for our children using Bible verses, and a list of character qualities to develop in our children.  These bonus materials wrap this book up perfectly with an action plan to carry out after the book is read.

And speaking of bonus materials, there are plenty more available as a free gift, when you buy this book between March 13-23.  Head on over here to find out more info on that.

There is also a new blog available entitled "No More Perfect", where we can join together to embrace reality, whatever that currently looks like in our families.  You can sign up here to receive weekly emails of encouragement all about this topic of embracing imperfection.

Finally, there will be a Facebook group study on this book coming soon.  You won't want to miss it!

How's that for some perfect ways to help us get rid of the need for parenting perfection?  Be sure to grab a copy of the book now while you are thinking of it, and have a great rest of your week!