Here at Freedom we value Families and we want to partner with parents and provide a place they can come and look up resources to help them raise faith-filled children.
Downloadable Resources
Media Resources
Adventures in Odyssey is an award-winning, original audio drama series created for ages 8-12 and enjoyed by the whole family. They teach lasting truths and bring biblical principles to life, with just the right balance of fun, faith and imagination. There is a subscription fee in order to enjoy this resource. You can check our more information about what is available and the cost to subscribe by checking out their website.
Superbook
On the kids Superbook website there are lots of fun activities for kids to enjoy. They can watch episodes of the animated series Superbook, read the Bible, play games, listen to music and lots more. It is free to sign up and enjoy all the activities on the website. They also have different apps available in the Apple Store, Google Play and Amazon Apps.
Links to Purchase Resources
Books on Discipline/Behaviour
Boundaries With Kids - Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend
Publisher's Description
Yes, you CAN say no to your child and still be a loving parent. Discover how boundaries make parenting better today! What the award-winning, bestselling Boundaries has done for adult relationships, Boundaries with Kids will do for you and your children. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend provide the help and guidance you need for raising your kids to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.
With wisdom and empathy, they take you through the ins and outs of instilling the kind of character in your children that will help them lead balanced, productive, and fulfilling adult lives. Learn how to:
set limits and still be a loving parent
bring control to an out-of-control family life
apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting
define appropriate boundaries and consequences for your kids
. . . and much more!
Discipline That Connects With Your Child’s Heart - Jim & Lynn Jackson
Publisher's Description
A Powerful Approach to Bringing God's Grace to Kids. Did you know that the way we deal (or don't deal) with our kids' misbehaviour shapes their beliefs about themselves, the world, and God? Therefore it's vital to connect with their hearts--not just their minds--amid the daily behaviour battles.
With warmth and grace, Jim and Lynne Jackson, founders of Connected Families, offer four tried-and-true keys to handling any behavioural issues with love, truth, and authority. You will learn practical ways to communicate messages of grace and truth, how to discipline in a way that motivates your child, and how to keep your relationship strong, not antagonistic. Discipline is more than just a short-term attempt to modify your child's actions--it's a long-term investment to help them build faith, wisdom, and character for life. When you discover a better path to discipline, you'll find a more well-behaved--and well-believed--kid.
Grace Based Discipline: How to Be at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst - Karis Kimmel Murray
About the Book
Every parent wants to know, "How do I discipline my kids?" Disciplining kids is tough . . . even on a good day. We just want the 140-character version of what we should do when our kids' behaviour scrapes the enamel off our sanity. Here's what God says: "The Lord disciplines the one he loves, " (Hebrews 12: 6).
With humour and down-to-earth practicality, Karis shares stories of trial and triumph straight from the trenches of parenting. From the first page, Karis gives desperate parents a reliable recipe for peace, boundaries, and effective discipline.
In Grace Based Discipline, learn how to:
Stay calm, even when you're staring down the barrel of a loaded toddler
Customize your discipline to your child's unique personality, age and needs
Set rules based on God's priorities, not yours
Apply consequences that really work
Responsive, grace-based parents are just ordinary people who've learned to tap into divine help.
Have a New Kid By Friday - Dr. Kevin Leman
Publisher's Description
Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behaviour in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers them hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child's attitude, behaviour, and character, this book contains chapters for each day of the week, as well as a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls--and much, much more. This helpful section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.
Positive Discipline A-Z: 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems - Jane Nelsen
Publisher's Description
As a parent, you face one of the most challenging—and rewarding—roles of your life. No matter how much you love your child, there will still be moments filled with anger, frustration, and, at times, desperation. What do you do? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust the Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commonsense approach to child rearing. In this completely updated edition of Positive Discipline A–Z, you will learn how to use methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful. You’ll find practical solutions to such parenting challenges as, sibling rivalry, bedtime hassles, school problems, getting chores done, ADHD, eating problems, procrastination, whining, tattling, lying, homework battles and dozens more!
This newly revised and expanded third edition contains up-to-the-minute information on sleeping through the night, back talk, and lack of motivation as well as tips on diet, exercise, and obesity prevention, and new approaches to parenting in the age of computers and cell phones.
Positive Discipline in the Christian Home - Mary L. Hughes, Mike Brock, Jane Nelsen
About the Book
A Biblical Approach to Raising a Respectful, Responsible, and Capable Child "Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it." (Proverbs 22:6) As Christian parents, you know you need to train your child, yet you probably wonder just how you can accomplish the fulfillment of this Scripture. What kind of parenting ensures that your child will become a responsible, capable adult who can choose to love and follow God for life? Positive Discipline in the Christian Home clarifies how the Bible and the time-proven skills of Positive Discipline can work together. Using stories and passages from the Bible as well as real-life stories from families using these principles, this non-denominational book will show you how to: * Teach your children life skills and values * Set appropriate boundaries with your children *Understand and respond to misbehaviour with loving guidance *Follow through with kindness and firmness at the same time * AND MUCH MORE!
Shepherding a Child’s Heart - Dr Tedd Tripp
Publisher's Description
Shepherding a Child’s Heart is about how to speak to the heart of your child. The things your child does and says flow from the heart. Luke 6:45 puts it this way: ‘…out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.’ Written for parents with children of any age, this insightful book provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child’s heart into the paths of life.
In this revised edition of Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Dr. Tedd Tripp not only draws on his thirty years experience as a pastor, counselor, school administrator, and father, but he also shares insights gained in many years of teaching this material in conferences worldwide, providing more valuable help for parents.
books on finances
Raising Financially Confident Kids - Mary Hunt
Publishers Description
It's natural to want your kids to have a secure future. But when it comes to teaching the next generation how to handle money, parents are failing. Still there is hope! Financial expert Mary Hunt shows parents how to raise kids who have a healthy relationship with money--even if the parents themselves have made financial mistakes along the way or are struggling financially right now.
Drawing from solid statistics and her own hard-won knowledge and experience, Hunt helps parents protect their children from the financial pitfalls of easy credit, an attitude of entitlement, and our culture's chummy relationship with debt. From preschool through the teen years, every stage of a child's development is covered, including how to talk to them about money, how to help them start saving money and giving it away, and how to manage money wisely.
Smart Money, Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win With Money - Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze
Publishers Description
In Smart Money Smart Kids, financial expert and best-selling author Dave Ramsey and his daughter Rachel Cruze equip parents to teach their children how to win with money. Starting with the basics like working, spending, saving, and giving, and moving into more challenging issues like avoiding debt for life, paying cash for college, and battling discontentment, Dave and Rachel present a no-nonsense, common-sense approach for changing your family tree.
Books on Prayer
The Power of a Praying Parent - Stormie Omartian
Publisher's Description
Why Leave Your Child's Life to Chance When You Can Give It to God?Stormie Omartian and her husband, Michael, spent 20 years raising their children...and more than 40 years praying for them. Now, in 32 short, easy-to-read chapters, Stormie shares how you can pray through each stage of your child's life, from early childhood to adulthood. Learn how to put your child's life in God's loving hands in such areas as his or her own safety, walk with God, success in school, friends, family relationships and gifts and talents
It's never too late to discover the joy that comes from being a part of God's work in your child's life. You don't have to be a perfect parent. But you do need to be a praying parent. And you can do that.
Parenting Books
Give them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus - Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Jessica Thompson
Publisher's Description
Helping Christian parents raise their children with grace and the gospel, this book addresses topics such as the law, God’s forgiveness and love, and true heart obedience—a great resource for raising grace-filled kids.
Grace Based Parenting - Dr. Tim Kimmel
Publisher's Description
Discover a parenting style that nurtures a healthy family, mirrors God's love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator for behaviour. Parents in our post-modern world tend to be committed to but anxious about their child-rearing responsibilities. They've tried the countless parenting books on the market, but many of these are strident, fear-based books that loving parents instinctively reject, while still searching for direction.
Now Dr. Tim Kimmel, founder of Family Matters ministries, offers a refreshing new look at parenting. Rejecting rigid rules and checklists that don't work, Dr. Kimmel recommends a parenting style that mirrors God's love, reflects His forgiveness, and displaces fear as a motivator for behaviour. As we embrace the grace God offers, we begin to give it-creating a solid foundation for growing morally strong and spiritually motivated children.
Spiritual Parenting: An Awakening for Today’s Families - Michelle Anthony
Publisher's Description
It's hard enough to train kids to behave, but good behaviour isn't what Jesus calls for in the Bible. He wants hearts and souls that are shaped in vibrant faith and love toward God and others. How can parents cultivate this in their children? In this book Dr. Michelle Anthony shares practical examples and biblical insight on the spiritual role of parenting.
Spiritual Parenting introduces the simple but revolutionary concept that parents are, by the power of God's Spirit, to obey and depend on God in order to create an environment God can use to beckon their children to Him.
Sticky Faith - Kara E. Powell, Chap Clark
Publisher's Description
Nearly every Christian parent in America would give anything to find a viable resource for developing within their kids a deep, dynamic faith that "sticks" long term. Sticky Faith delivers. Research shows that almost half of graduating high school seniors struggle deeply with their faith. Recognizing the ramifications of that statistic, the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) conducted the "College Transition Project" in an effort to identify the relationships and best practices that can set young people on a trajectory of lifelong faith and service. Based on FYI findings, this easy-to-read guide presents both a compelling rationale and a powerful strategy to show parents how to actively encourage their children’s spiritual growth so that it will stick to them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith. Written by authors known for the integrity of their research and the intensity of their passion for young people, Sticky Faith is geared to spark a movement that empowers adults to develop robust and long-term faith in kids of all ages.
Talk Now and Later: How to Lead Kids Through Life's Tough Topics - Brian Dollar, Michelle Anthony
Publisher's Description
In Talk Now and Later, author Brian Dollar presents 10 common topics your child deals with and detailed advice on how to approach and discuss the issues with them. Get ready to talk to your children about the big issues in life — now and later.
If you are looking for something specific but do not see it here please contact Margaret Pfeiffer our Children’s Program Director and she will happy to help you find what you are looking for.