Guide 4 Parents is the handbook that should have come with your child.

It is a workbook that will help you teach and give your child love to make them more successful in life.

It shows you how to raise a successful child.

If God wrote a parenting guide He would include the ten steps that are in this workbook course.

When children come into this world God did not send a user's guide book and every parent struggles to do the best they can.

New parents face adjusting their individual beliefs to form a new set of parenting rules. Parenting a child is the most important task a parent has in their life.

It is a daunting and difficult task and parents need all the help they can get. When I began to be a parent I did not know how to do it properly, especially because I was raised in an abusive home. I wanted desperately to change and not pass on to my children what I had experienced. I did all I could to change and to learn how to give my children a happier life. Guide 4 Parents contains ten steps that I learned from my wife and her parents, then working in a youth ranch. The physical abuse I experienced was not the most devastating to me; it was the lack of love. I was constantly told how worthless and stupid I was and I never felt love or respect.

As I worked to change I began to recognize how important love is for a child. It is the most important aspect of parenting a parent can give to their child. Learning how to teach a child is fought with many mistakes, yet a child will forgive us, if they know and feel our unconditional love. My workbook will teach you how to increase love even during discipline. In fact that is its motto: how to increase love during discipline.

The story is told of a child who takes a lunch to her father who is digging a well. As she gets to the well she cannot see her father because it is dark. She calls to him and he asks her to drop the lunch and he will catch it. Then he says, "There is more here than I can eat, jump and I will catch you and we can share the lunch." She jumps and shares the lunch with her father. There are some important aspects about being a parent that mimic this story. If the father had not shown love to the point that the child completely trusted him, she would not have jumped. Love builds trust and fosters obedience and teachability. A child who does not feel loved cannot be effectively taught. Every time the parent who does not show love, then tries to teach or discipline, the child will remember the lack of love and will be unlikely to believe the parent.

Our prisons are full of people who as children were not loved. As a youth I rebelled and did some things wrong just to test my parents trying to get them to show me love. I have observed youth in the youth ranch who disobeyed with the goal to find love. Love is so powerful that it can change the most deviant child.

Guide 4 Parents contains ten steps with a workbook set of questions that will give you the tools to help your child feel and know you love them. Loving a child is of little value if you do not know how to get them to believe you love them. Most parents have love for their children, yet the child does not feel loved because their parents do not know the right tools to use.

I was not a prfect parent, yet using the ten steps in this workbook made a difference for my children, and I know it can do the same for you.

I guarantee if you follow the ten steps in this workbook you and your child/children will be successful and happy.

It will create successful children which will make you happier.

It can change problem children almost overnight as it did in six months for troubled boys in our youth ranch home.

It can change an abusive parent just as it did to help me overcome what I learned as a child.

Of most importance, it will change our world with children who grow up knowing they are loved and pass on that love to their children and others.

It uses principles taught by Jesus Christ but does not preach or dictate morals; it simply provides a guide so you can better teach your values and beliefs to help your child.