Baby Jesus Syndrome: Loving Your Child Enough to Correct Them - Couverture souple

Harris, PL

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798163342396

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

There was only one Baby Jesus.

Baby Jesus Syndrome is what happens when a parent quietly decides that their child is the baby in the manger: the one perfect, sinless child. The parent would never say it out loud, yet their actions show it. Every teacher is wrong, every fight was someone else's fault, and every consequence disappears. The child is never wrong, so the child is never corrected, so the child never grows.

After a lifetime in classrooms, hallways, and parent conferences across the United States and overseas, PL Harris, a veteran middle and high school teacher who also served in school administration, has sat across the table from thousands of parents. Most loved their children fiercely. Again and again, however, she met mothers and fathers who could not hear one word of concern about their child. The teacher was lying. The other kid started it. Their child would never do that.

She tried to warn them. She pointed them to help. Years later she read some of those children's names in the news, and some in the obituaries. Some went to jail. Some went to prison. Some are no longer living.

Baby Jesus Syndrome is her answer: love that is tough but true, serious yet overflowing with hope, and written for every parent who wants their child to grow.

Inside you will find:

• Bible families whose stories warn and encourage, from Eli and his sons Hophni and Phinehas, King David, and Samson, to Hannah and the prodigal son's waiting father
• Practical help for the parent conference: when the school calls, when your child is wrong, disrespectful, or dishonest, when your child has hurt someone, and when the school is wrong too
• Chapters on what discipline really means, saying no and meaning it, letting consequences teach, raising a child who works, money and screens, fearing God instead of your child, laying down pride, stepping back instead of fighting every battle, and preparing your child for the day you are gone
• Honest, tender chapters for every kind of home: "The Man of the House Is Still a Boy," "Daddy's Little Princess," stepfamilies, adoptive, foster, and kinship families, children with disabilities, young and older parents, and grandparents, aunts, and uncles
• A frank word about children of preachers, principals, and police officers who think they are above the law
• True stories from the news of what happens when correction never comes, and of parents who chose correction and watched their children turn out just fine
• Hope for parents whose children are in the far country, behind bars, or gone too soon
• Gentle, Scripture-filled prayers of repentance, adoration, thanksgiving, and redirection for both parents and children, with twenty prayer points in every chapter and a closing Sealing Prayer

Written with warmth and a little humor, this book welcomes every reader, whether you have prayed all your life or are not sure what you believe about God. The author is a teacher, not a psychologist, and she says so plainly. What she offers is what she has seen, what Scripture teaches, and the hope that it is never too late for a parent to begin again.

Whether your child is five or twenty-five, it is not too late.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798163342396
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 540
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg