Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna, Good Book for Dads to Read
by FamilyDads · Filed Under: Daughters · Fatherhood · Resources · Sons · Teenagers
Did you know that over 75,000 books have been written on parenting?
Whoa! That’s a lot of information out there for dads and moms.
And most dads like you and me won’t have the time nor interest to read even a tiny fraction of all those books.
Author George Barna, a dad himself with two daughters, (you may have heard of him, he is also a well-known Christian pollster and researcher) recently published a new book on parenting with a very unique twist:
“To amass a body of knowledge that could be absorbed and applied by all parents to help them mazimize their parenting potential.”
Sounds very worthwhile, doesn’t it? After all, what parent doesn’t want to maximize their parenting potential?!!
But to write such a book, Barna’s team had to gather specific data from three sources:
1. Telephone surveys nationwide of parents with children under the age of 18. The parents were asked about their challenges, successes, and failures as parents.
2. Existing books on parenting practices, particularly those with a spiritual dimension. Those elements that were identified as significant were studied more closely.
3. Personal interviews of more than ten thousand (yes, 10,000!) young adults in their twenties who were leading “transformed” lives with genuine, mature faith (not merely church attenders.)
These young adults were asked what happened during their formative years that “worked.”
Their parents were then interviewed for their input on upbringing these children.
Would you like to know what the research revealed?
It’s all laid out in a concise, timely book by George Barna called “Revolutionary Parenting.”
In the book, Barna starts with a look at the current crisis in American parenting, specifically as it relates to raising children with a Biblical worldview and an understanding of spiritual matters.
The next section… which is the bulk of the book… summarizes the parenting research that his team did.
The final section closes with a very personal chapter called “How Studying Revolutionary Parenting Changed Me” in which Barna talks about ten specific lessons he learned from his research that has impacted his own parenting of his two daughters, and he shares all this with the reader.
One dad reader commented…
“This is one of the few books every Christian parent must read! Great book!!! Wish it had been around years ago! If you are a new parent or even if your kids are already teens — you need this book. It is short: a fast, easy, but meaningful read.”
Learn More and Order Revolutionary Parenting for yourself, or as a gift for another parent you know, at DadResources.com, the bookstore that supports FamilyDads–
http://www.DadResources.com/product.asp?itemid=16





















I have been reading few books on Parenting. The review on “Revolutionary Parenting” book is very interesting. Its typically covered many topics relating to parenting. I would like to read this book.
Thanks for posting
Julia
Hi,
The books very interesting and useful. I will definitely get one for myself and one more for my friend too.
Thank you for sharing
I’m new to raising a kid. My sister passed away a couple of months ago and because my nephew does not know his father, he wanted to live with me. It wasn’t hard to say, yes. He is family and I love the little guy. I’m in search of everything I can find on the net about raising a child because I want to be the best uncle a kid can have so, thank you for the blog post and now I must move on to the next one.