Start with the Heart: How to Motivate Your Kids to Be Compassionate, Responsible, and Brave (Even When You're Not Around)

You can be proud of your parenting and see amazing results when you learn to act with intentionality toward your children. Instead of just working on behavior modification, change your children's hearts and teach them to do what is good, godly, and right even when we're not around. When the heart is changed, the behavior will change.

Learning to use this kind of motivation takes effort, consistency, and strategy, but it works and it's never too late. If you're willing to commit to a little hard work up front, you'll enjoy your kids, your life, and yourself much more when you learn to start with the heart.

Chapter Titles:

Chapter 1: Motivation: Direction Matters

Chapter 2: Positive and Negative Consequences: We Can Do Better than "No tech until next month!"

Chapter 3: Change: We Can Do Better Than "What's it Going to Take for you to Change?"

Chapter 4: Motivation: The Big Five

Chapter 5: Motivation: What Does Identity Have To Do With It?"

Chapter 6: Motivation: Relevance of Character, Resiliency, and Technology

Chapter 7: Parents: Be Who Your Children Need You To Be

Chapter 8: Communication: We Can Do Better than "Because I Said So"

Chapter 9: Complimentaing and Correcting: We Can Do Better than "That's Unacceptable!"

Chapter 10: Learning: We Can Do Better than "I'm Sick of Your Complaining - Just Do It!"

Chapter 11: Learning: Motivate with the 12 Genius Qualities and 8 Great Smarts