Tim Sanford - The Low-Pressure Guide to Parenting Your Preschooler

PRAISE FOR THE LOW-PRESSURE GUIDE TO PARENTING YOUR PRESCHOOLER

Twenty years ago, when I first became a mom of preschoolers, I was so overwhelmed with doing everything right. This left me rigid, tense, and overwhelmed. I wasnt having fun and neither were my kids. Tim Sanfords message of low-pressure parenting is one Im thankful for, especially since I still have preschoolers in my house through adoption! I highly recommend this book for parents who want to enjoy their kids and feel the weight of rules and restrictions slip from their shoulders. Its a book to read more than once and share!

TRICIA GOYER

Coauthor of Lead Your Family like Jesus and mother of ten children

Tims book on simplifying the parenting process for preschoolers will change lives and help you to enjoy parenting! He compiles years of experience, knowledge, and wisdom from Gods Word into solid advice urging parents to quit stressing about the mountains of input others provide them daily in order to raise the perfect child. He helps us transform our ideas of what we think we should be doing and instead form a plan for raising our children following Gods inspired Word. I trust that God will use Tims book to encourage many parents in the early years of their childrens lives.

JOE WHITE

Award-winning author and President of Kanakuk Kamps

The Low-Pressure Guide to Parenting Your Preschooler by Tim Sanford provides a wealth of practical insight for the stressed-out preschool parent. I especially appreciated the Big Four low-pressure principles. Tim simplifies critical parenting tasks into an easy-to-understand strategy that left me repeatedly saying, Yes! I can do that! My two preschool grandsons and their parents lived with us for eight months this year, and I wish Id had a copy of this book then. It would have helped me a lot in assisting their parents. Actually, it would have been easy to give them a copy of the book and say, Dont stress practice this stuff! Tims principles and insights could help a parent build a preschooler up and prepare the child for decision-making for the rest of his or her life. Thanks for this!

BRENT LINDQUIST, PHD

President, Link Care Center

Tim Sanford is a warm, encouraging, and practical voice for parents surrounded by conflicting advice and opinions for the best way to raise their children. Youll take a deep breath and smile with relief on so many pages and you can replace worry with joy as you learn to celebrate and delight in the earliest years of your childs life!

CYNTHIA ULRICH TOBIAS

Author of The Way They Learn and You Cant Make Me! (But I Can Be Persuaded)

The Low-Pressure Guide to Parenting Your Preschooler

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