Tedd Tripp’s Shepherding a Child’s Heart

Tripp, Tedd.  Shepherding a Child’s Heart: Revised and Updated.  2d. ed.  Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 2005.

Like his brother, Tedd understands that we do not want to simply make good little boys and girls or good teenagers.  The Biblical approach to parenting instead focuses on the heart that produces behavior.  The book shows us how the gospel applies to disciplining our children and what our goals should be for them during various stages of their childhood and youth years.  I also recommend his next installment written together with his wife, Instructing a Child’s Heart.  He also has available videos of lectures following much of this material that we have been using in small groups in our church.