"What Children Need" is a book about growth. Children often replicate the behavior modeled to them by their parents. This book gives tremendous insight, reflection, and tools to aid parents through the many adversities of raising children in today's culture. Children have never lacked more boundaries, have never felt so isolated, and have never felt so unloved.
The reason why children are struggling in these aspects are because parents are struggling. As John Maxwell says, "Everything rises and falls with leadership". Parents must develop their authority, and then use it! If children are going to grow in their moral integrity and one day assume the dignity of being responsible for their own life, they need to see it modeled by their parents first.
This book enables parents to strengthen their inner being so that they might truly be able to provide their children with what they need. Taking responsibility for raising children well moves us from a place of denial to a place of dignity. It can help us find what both children and adults need: the freedom to be human.
