Have a New Kid By Friday Participant's Guide: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days (A Six-Session Study)
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Parents will be won over by Dr. Leman's keen insight into the family and will feel renewed in their commitment to raise great kids.
Dr. Kevin Leman
Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker. Cohost of the extremely popular Have a New Kid by Friday podcast, he has made house calls through hundreds of radio and television programs, such as FOX & Friends, The View, FOX's The Morning Show, Today, Morning in America, The 700 Club, CBS's The Early Show, Janet Parshall, CNN, and Focus on the Family, and has served as a contributing family psychologist to Good Morning America. A bestselling and award-winning author, Dr. Leman has written more than 60 books, including The Birth Order Book and Have a New Kid by Friday. He is the founder of Leman Academy of Excellence, an award-winning group of classical charter schools located throughout Arizona and Colorado. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.
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Have a New Kid By Friday Participant's Guide - Dr. Kevin Leman
© 2013 by Dr. Kevin Leman
Published by Revell
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Ebook edition created 2013
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ISBN 978-1-4412-4306-5
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Excerpts taken from Have a New Kid by Friday © 2008 by Dr. Kevin Leman. Used by permission.
To protect the privacy of those who have shared their stories with the author, some details and names have been changed.
Contents
Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
How to Use This Participant’s Guide 6
Want a New Kid by Friday? Take this quick quiz. 9
Introduction
They’re Unionized . . . and Growing Stronger 11
Monday
Where Did They All Come From? 20
Tuesday
Disarming the Dude (or Dudette) with the ’Tude 29
Wednesday
Show Me a Mean Teacher, and I’ll Show You a Good One (It’s All in the Perspective) 38
Thursday
But What If I Damage Their Psyche? (Uh . . . What’s a Psyche?) 47
Friday
The Doc Is In . . . and It’s You 55
Epilogue: It’s Time to Launch 65
Appendix 1: Have a New Kid by Friday Plan for Success 67
Appendix 2: The Top 10 Countdown to Having a New Kid by Friday 69
About Dr. Kevin Leman 71
Resources by Dr. Kevin Leman 72
Back Ads 74
Back Cover 78
How to Use This Participant’s Guide
Here’s the most important thing you need to know: this is your participant’s guide. That means you can use it in any way that works best for you and your group. Every individual and group is unique, and only by trying new things will you find out how this guide works best in your group. So do whatever brings you and your group the maximum impact.
Each of the six sessions is set up in the following basic format.
The Kickoff
Questions to launch group interaction and promote sharing.
Watch
Scenes from Have a New Kid by Friday DVD.
Discuss the DVD
Questions to connect the DVD material to your everyday life.
Taking It Deeper
Questions, reflections, and insights to aid your transition to having a new kid by Friday.
Remember
Bite-size nuggets of wisdom to carry with you.
My Game Plan for Today
What to do to reach your goal—having a new kid by Friday.
Aha Moments
Space to record your insights and thoughts from the day’s session. For additional reflection, start a separate journal of Aha Moments.
Prayer
A time to commit your goals to God, pray for others in the group, and ask God for his help in giving you the determination