100+ Books, Blogs and Resources for Christian Moms

Hear that big rush of air? That would be me sighing because I’ve finally finished (mostly) compiling this post. Actually, I still have a lot of organizing to do and a few more items to add, but here is the initial list of resources you wonderful folks shared.

I am so excited to really dive in and read some of the blogs, order a few books and watch some of the videos.

If you’re joining us for Mom-iversity I hope you’ll find this list to be a wonderful resource for you. (I’ll post the syllabus form tomorrow.)

Of course, I need to say that not all of the items are 100% endorsed. I haven’t read all of these books and several seemed to have both lovers and haters, so be sure to read the Amazon reviews and remember to “chew the meat and spit out the bones.” This is post is a must read before you dive in to this list: A Very Important Word On Parenting Books etc.

(Also, please note that I had to rush a bit to get this resource up in time for you to review it for Mom-iversity. I most certainly have missed a few suggestions. Be assured, they’ll be added as soon as I have time to review all the comments again. Thanks for your patience!)

Enjoy! (And feel free to add more in the comments.)

Books

• The Bible
• The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child’s Heart for Eternity By Sally Clarkson
• Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years by Charles Fay and Jim Fay
• Parenting is Heart Work by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN
• Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach
• Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication by Haim Ginott
• Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation by Becky Bailey
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Faber & Mazlish
• Positive Discipline for Preschoolers: For Their Early Years–Raising Children Who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful (Positive Discipline Library) by Jane Nelsen
• Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Faber & Mazlish
• Boundaries with Kids: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives by Cloud & Townsend
• Raising Great Kids by Cloud & Townsend
• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld
• Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Character in You and Your Kids! by by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN
• Educating the Wholehearted Child Revised & Expanded by Clay and Sally Clarkson.
• Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Faber & Mazlish
• Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Michele and Ed.D. Borba
• Raising Your Children For Christ — Andrew Murray
• Don’t Make Me Count to Three: a Mom’s Look at Heart-Oriented Discipline — Ginger Plowman
• Wise Words For Moms — Ginger Plowman
• The New Strong-Willed Child — James Dobson
• Shepherding a Child’s Heart – Tedd Tripp
• The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
• Different Children, Different Needs: Understanding the Unique Personality of Your Child By Charles Boyd
• Christian Living in the Home by Jay Adams
• Don’t Make Me Count to Three: a Mom’s Look at Heart-Oriented Discipline by Ginger Plowman
• The Heart of Anger: Practical Help for Prevention and Cure of Anger in Children by Lou Priolo
• Teach Them Diligently: How to Use the Scriptures in Child Training, Study Guide by Lou Priolo
• Grace-Based Parenting by Tim Kimmel
• Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens, Second Edition (Resources for Changing Lives) by Paul David Tripp
• Finding Your Purpose as a Mom: How to Build Your Home on Holy Ground by Donna Otto
• The Stay-at-Home Mom: For Women at Home And Those Who Want to Be by Donna Otto
• Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) — Foster Cline & Jim Fay
• The New Strong-Willed Child — James Dobson
• Managers Of Their Homes: A Practical Guide To Daily Scheduling For Christian Home-School Families
• Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
• Living Simply with Children: A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim the Bliss of Childhood and the Joy of Parenting by Marie Sherlock
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
• Unplugged Play: No Batteries. No Plugs. Pure Fun. by Bobbi Connor
• A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola
• The Key to Your Child’s Heart by Gary Smalley
• Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge
• Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge
• The Family Manager Takes Charge: Getting on the Fast Track to a Happy, Organized Home by Kathy Peel
• Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World by Marybeth Hicks
• Keep the Siblings, Lose the Rivalry by Dr. Todd Cartmell
• You Can’t Make Me (But I Can Be Persuaded): Strategies for Bringing Out the Best in Your Strong-Willed Child by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
• Confessions of an Irritable Mother by Karen Hossink
• Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool by Hal Runkel
• Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood by Jamie Martin
• The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby by Dr. William Sears
• The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman by Faye Inchfawn
• Loving Our Kids On Purpose by Danny Silk
• Your Boy: Raising a Godly Son in an Ungodly World by Vicki Courtney.
• For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay.
• Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
• Wise Words For Moms by Ginger Plowman
• Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day — By Shea Darian
• You Are Your Child’s First Teacher: What Parents Can Do With and For Their Chlldren from Birth to Age Six — By Rahima Baldwin Dancy
• Creative Correction — By Lisa Whelchel
• The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful, and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old: Revised Edition — By Harvey Karp
• Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy — By Naomi Aldort
• Make Your Place: Affordable & Sustainable Nesting Skills — By Raleigh Briggs
• Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women — By James Dobson




• Making a Family Home — By Shannon Honeybloom
• A Mother’s Heart: A Look at Values, Vision, and Character for the Christian Mother by Jean Fleming,
• The Most Important Place on Earth: What a Christian Home Looks Like and How to Build One by Robert Wolgemuth,
• The New Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
• Good and Angry: Exchanging Frustration for Character in You and Your Kids! by Scott Turansky & Joanne Miller
• Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes… in You and Your Kids by Scott Turansky & Joanne Miller
• My Heart’s at Home: Becoming the Intentional Mom Your Family Needs (Hearts at Home Books) by Jill Savage
• The Family Blessing-Rolf Garborg
• Taming Your Family Zoo: Six Weeks to Raising a Well-Mannered Child – Donna Jones
• Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood – Robert Lewis
• How am I Smart?: A Parent’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences -Dr. Kathy Koch
• The Power of a Positive Mom: Revised Edition – Karol Ladd
• Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting by John Gottman, PhD
• For the Children’s Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School Susan Schaeffer Macauley
• The Power of a Praying® Parent Deluxe Edition by Stormie Omartian
• How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development) by John Holt
• The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer
• What is a Family?? By Edith Schaeffer
• For the Family’s Sake: The Value of Home in Everyone’s Life by Susan Schaeffer Macauley
• Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson
• Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney
• Gift Of The Blessing, The by Smalley and Trent
• Honey, I Wrecked the Kids: When Yelling, Screaming, Threats, Bribes, Time-outs, Sticker Charts and Removing Privileges All Don’t Work by Alyson Schafer
• Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
• 12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know: Getting Back to Basics and Raising Happy Kids — Michele Borba
• Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition — Anne Morrow Lindberg




• Growing Kids God’s Way: Biblical Ethics for Parenting — The Ezzos
• On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (On Becoming. . .) by the Ezzos

Blogs

• A Holy Experience
• Our Mother’s Daughters/
• Simple Mom
• Simple Kids – Uncomplicated parenting in a complex world.
• Impress Your Kids
• A Path Made Straight
• Clover Lane
• Above Rubies
• No Greater Joy
• Life As Mom
• Proverbs31.org
• Delighting In The Days
• PHD in Parenting
• Too Many Kids In The Bathtub
• Steady Mom/
• Life As Mom
• Moms of Faith
• The M.O.B. Society – a blog for Mothers of Boys.
• M.O.D. Squad – a blog for Mothers of Daughter

WEBSITES

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ScreamFree Parenting

<li><a href="http://www.raisinggodlytomatoes.com/">Raising Godly Tomatoes</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.parentingontrack.com/blog/">Parenting on Track</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.doorposts.com/">DoorPosts</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.askdrsears.com/">Ask Dr. Sears</a></li>

<li><a href="http://Familylife.com</a>Family Life</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.mops.org/">MOPS.org</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.loveandlogic.com/">Love and Logic</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.donnaotto.org/index.htm">Donna Otto Ministries</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.heritagebuilders.com/Resources.html">Heritage Builders Resources</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.focusonthefamily.org/">Focus on the Family</a></li>

POSTS

• Try this little secret of mine, instead of “because I said so.” – Like Mother, Like Daughter
• Six-to-eleven year olds need less patience from you. – Like Mother, Like Daughter
• The Reasonably Clean House – Like Mother, Like Daughter
• Perfectionism – A Holy Experience
• Released from Worry: A Theology of Parenting (with a wee giveaway) – A Holy Experience
• Embracing Who I Am – Incourage
• For the Young Mother: Ministry, Guilt, and Seasons of Life
• What A Mother Can Do Without
• The One Parenting Habit that Changes Everything – A Holy Experience
• A State of Bondage – Revive Our Hearts
• Out of Time – Girl Talk

OTHER

Focus on the Family Podcast

Right From The Start Video Series – Family Life

The World’s Strictest Parents – TV Show

MOPS

Quotes

“Love through Mistakes
Teach through Accidents
Discipline through Rebellion”

“The days are long, but the years are short.” – unknown

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This post is part of Works For Me Wednesday.

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