Parenting Tips for a New Age

By Danny Ray Christian

The Miracle of Belief Occurs Before The Miracle of Transformation”

I wrote this book with all the mothers and fathers who are sometimes at a lost as to how to best guide their children through the difficult experiences of childhood and young adulthood in mind. Parenting is one of those assignments that is worth doing poorly at first, until you get better at the awesome privilege it is to nurture the souls, Jesus said, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come unto me: for such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:14 (KJV).

Parenting is the one job we do not want to get wrong, yet the reality is that we usually are not aware of our mistakes with our children until after we have made them. God knows I am probably the last person who should be offering anyone advice on parenting , because of all the mistakes I made as a father. I nevertheless persist in this endeavour because of what the former Prime Minister of Great Britain said about the benefits of mistakes -- “No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” Only what we put into raising our children can we expect to see them manifest. It is my hope that this small book, which features just a few of the lessons I have learned from the mistakes I have made and continue to make as a father, will help other parents become better at the job of nurturing the next generation of leaders and achievers

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664191235

Danny Ray Christian

Danny has been certified by Toastmasters International as a Competent Public Speaker (1991 East Moline). He received his GED from the Chicago City Colleges (1981) and obtained a certificate in Graphic Arts from Southeastern Illinois College (1987). He is a former member of the Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party. He spent twenty years in prison and ten in Elgin Mental Health Center. While in the hospital he wrote over eight-hundred poems, three books of daily meditations, and numerous speeches and Afro-centric anecdotes. He also acted as a mentor for younger consumers while there, leading his own peer-support groups and chairing GROW for four years (2003-07). You can contact him about appearing at your venue at [e-mail]

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Contents

Published Work

Dedication

Tribute To Dorthea Christian

Prologue

Introduction

Preface

Chapter 1 Parenting Tips

Tip 1

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi

Tip 2

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire

Tip 3

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine

Tip 4

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Tip 5

Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. Misty Copeland

Tip 6

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky

Tip 7

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe. Whitney Houston

Tip 8

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. Joyce Meyer

Tip 9

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for. Wentworth Miller

Tip 10

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. Louis L’Amour

Tip 11

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. Eckhart Tolle

Tip 12

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society. Anthony Fauci

Tip 13

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Whitney Houston

Tip 14

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton

Tip 15

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right. Jane Goodall

Tip 16

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

Tip 17

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences. John Denver

Tip 18

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. Anselm of Canterbury

Tip 19

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible. Stephen Hawking

Tip 20

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy. Mike Ditka

Tip 21

Once you believe things are permanent, you’re trapped in a world without doors. Genesis P-Orridge

Tip 22

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. David Icke

Chapter 2 Parent’s Report Card

Sinner’s Prayer

Formula for Effective Prayer Life

All biographical profiles were taken from

Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia.

PUBLISHED WORK

Ten-Part Book to Maximizing Your Potential

Life Poems

Three-Part Process to Breaking the Recidivism Cycle

Redeeming the Time

Young, Gifted and Black

50 Most Positive Things I Know About African Americans

Trust God

Stopping the Tragic Lost of Life Caused by Purposeless Living

Pandemic Survival Manual

Let Them Eat Cake

Don’t Judge, Hug

The Wheel Life Story of Dionte Christian

God Is Bigger

Treating Our Common Wound

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the children, grandchildren

and great-grandchildren of Dorthea

Christian. May we forever treasure her great wisdom

and undying love, as we are her legacy.

TRIBUTE TO

DORTHEA CHRISTIAN

T HE WORD OF God Commands us to "Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that