Parenting Scripts: When What You’re Saying Isn’t Working, Say Something New

Parenting Scripts: When What You’re Saying Isn’t Working, Say Something New

Parenting Scripts are for parents desperate to speak life to their children instead of defaulting to the same old words and ineffective consequences. Focusing on the most ordinary and yet troublesome areas in our daily routines, Parenting Scripts will help parents craft intentional, well thought out and prayed over words. It will guide parents to a calm place and help pinpoint their family’s bad habits and choose better ways of dealing with immature behavior — theirs and their children’s. Laid out as a parenting book and workbook all in one, each of the thirty-one short chapters includes: Parenting Script – main lesson, complete with a script to try at home; Scripture verses to apply Prayer Script – prayer to pray; make the script your own – empty pages to write down your own parenting script.

Wendy Speake, a trained actress and heartfelt Bible teacher, ministers to women’s hearts through storytelling, both on page and stage. She utilizes drama, comedy, poetry, and the study of God’s Word. During her career in Hollywood, on shows such as JAG, Melrose Place, Star Trek Voyager, and Roswell, Wendy found herself longing to tell stories that edify and encourage women! She now writes stories that move readers closer to Jesus.

In their first book, Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses, Wendy and co-author Amber Lia, help parents who struggle with angry, reactionary parenting, by pointing them toward biblical principles. Their Triggers Study Guide takes them deeper in God's Word, where true transformation can be found. Their follow-up book, Parenting Scripts, takes the lessons from Biblical principles to application, where they help parents script actual scripts to speak to their children in the most ordinary and exasperating moments of family life.

Wendy is also co-author of Life Creative: Inspiration for Today's Renaissance Mom, with Kelli Stuart. Life Creative is a missive of encouragement to creative moms, telling the stories of 30 women who are living inspired and inspiring lives in the midst of motherhood.

Wendy Speake blogs about faith and family, motherhood and marriage, at WendySpeake.com. She resides in sunny San Diego with her handsome husband and their three ruddy boys.