Justin Dillehay (from TGC)
Leonard Sax, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups (Basic, 2015).
Not a distinctly Christian book, but more helpful than most Christian parenting books I’ve read. Don’t throw out the gospel-centered parenting books (unless they’re really just antinomianism applied to parenting), but do read them in tandem with something like this. Sax deals with the kind of basic-level issues that Christian parenting books tend to unwisely assume (like not letting your 8-year-old decide when to eat or where to go to school). I’m afraid a lot of Christian parents my age are trying to digest meat when they haven’t yet learned to drink milk. They’re worried about the intricacies of their toddler’s heart while failing to teach them basic obedience. We need books like this. Sax is what Solomon would sound like if he were writing to parents in the iPhone generation.
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