The Babyhood Transitions

It's reality-check time! You're at least four months into your tour of parenting and the complexity of child-training is starting to multiply. The learning fields of toddlerhood are cultivated during the Babyhood Transition phase, 5 months to a year. Now your baby's day is filled to overflowing with sensory stimulation and learning opportunities. How will you respond? Certainly not by abandoning that which has brought you so much success--your baby's routine. With age-appropriate modifications the three activities of your baby's day: feeding time, waketime and naptime expand with benefits and challenges. In their customary fashion the Ezzos lay out practical steps for successfully managing the growth challenges ahead. From introducing solid foods to introducing the playpen and everything in between--it's all here for your baby's benefit and your peace of mind. Enjoy your pretoddler.

Preparation for the Toddler Years

You and your baby work to blow out his first birthday candle while Aunt Carol announces, "He's a toddler now!" Not so fast! The period between twelve and eighteen months places a child on a one-way bridge leaving infancy behind and heading straight for the toddler years. A baby still? Not really, but neither is he a toddler and that is the key to understanding this phase of growth. The next six months is season of exchange: baby food is exchanged for table food; formula for whole milk; bottle for sippy cup; the highchair for a booster seat; feeding himself with his fingers replaced by a spoon and fork; babbling talk to speaking, and the first unsteady steps are taken over by strides of confidence. Your pretoddler graduated infancy with a mind of his own and whether you're ready or not, his natural inclination and challenge of "I do it myself" will become part of his and your day. In this series Gary and Anne Marie provide principles, strategies and step by step guidance that will help parent and child make a smooth transition from babyhood to toddlerhood.

The Toddler Transition

The Toddlerhood Transition series focuses on a brief but significant window of growth, a vibrant period of your child s life, from eighteen to thirty-six months of age. This eighteen month period is an amazing, spontaneous, engaging yet challenging time for the emergent child and his parents. That is because toddlers have their own peculiar way. They begin speaking full sentences and throwing full tantrums, deep hilarious laughing and a lack of impulse control. They can provide the best fun and the worst behavior. They can also make you feel like the best Mom one minute and the worst, the next. Learning how to manage your toddler’s day, while encourage learning and discouraging behavior in need of future correction is a primary goal of The Toddlerhood Transition series.

Growing Kids God’s Way

GROWING KIDS GOD'S WAY (Along the Virtuous Way) 5.0 series is a comprehensive values-based parenting curriculum. In the title  the authors, Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo, place their emphasis on God's Way meaning  the way of the Lord. We serve an ethical God. Moral rightness flows from His being. His moral law is a reflection of His holy character (Psalm 19:7). More than that, He has shown man what is good and what is required of him (Micah  6:8). Growing Kids God's Way can help any parent reach the heart of  children with virtues and values that flow from the character of God and do  it without stressing the child or the parents.

Utilized by more than 9,000 churches and schools worldwide and serving over 1.7 million households, there is a reason why this core curriculum is so popular: it's practical and the applications work. The curriculum is designed  for small group studies or can be utilized by individuals in the privacy of  their own home.

Parenting the Middle Years

The middle years, eight to twelve years of age, are perhaps the most significant attitude-forming period in the life of a child. It is during this time that the roots of moral character are established. From the foundation that is formed, healthy or not-so-healthy family relationships will be built. These are the years when patterns of behavior are firmly established patterns that will impact your parent-child relationship for decades to come. Rightly meeting the small challenges of the middle years significantly reduces the likelihood of big challenges in the teen years. In other words, the groundwork you lay during your child's middle years will forever impact your relationship even long after he or she is grown.

Reaching the Heart of Your Teen

Why do teenagers rebel? Is it due to hormones, a suppressed primal desire to stake out their own domain, or a natural and predictable process of growth? Reaching the Heart of Your Teen looks at the many factors that make living with a teenager either a blessing or a curse. It exposes the notions of secular myths and brings to light the proven how-to applications of building and maintaining healthy relationships with your teens. Whether you worry about your teen and dating or your teen and drugs, the principles of Reaching the Heart of Your Teen are appropriate and applicable for both extremes and everyone in between. They do work!

Reflections of Moral Innocence

REFLECTIONS OF MORAL INNOCENCE (Along the Innocent Way) is a study in the basics of human sexuality, especially the developing sexuality of our children. The Ezzos believe it is right to let children be children as long as they can, and believe it is wrong to rush children into adulthood through the medium of premature sexual knowledge. There is no faster way to rob a child of the innocence of childhood than inappropriate sex education. Children only get one childhood. What are you doing to protect it?

So we ask: What does God say about human sexuality and the sexual innocence of children? What does He say about purity and the role of parents in forming right attitudes in their children's minds and hearts about their own sexuality? This series discusses the practical how-to's of sex education and much more. By the end of this series you should have the confidence of knowing how, what, and when to communicate biological truth to your children with biblical values attached without fearing that you are giving your children too much or too little information.

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