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What is the difference between the kid who struggles to "adult" and the one who jumps in feet first, ready to thrive? It all comes down to mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets. Either we as parents raise kids who are dependent on us or we raise kids who are confident, capable, and eager to take on the challenges of an independent adult life.In Raising Them Ready, parenting experts and bestselling authors Jonathan and Erica Catherman give you practical ways to prepare your kids for life on their own. They help you assess how your kids respond to the everyday demands of life, provide practices for redirecting them from seeing adulthood as a series of threats to anticipating exciting challenges, and give you an inventory of the real-world adulting mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets your kids should acquire before leaving the nest.By putting into practice the advice in this book, you can stop worrying about if your kids will make it on their own and start celebrating alongside them this adventure called life.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	22 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493428908
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Praise for Guiding the Next Great Generation
“This powerful text serves as a road map to help guide the next generation toward current and future successes. Using relevant stories, proven models, and practical strategies, Jonathan Catherman offers the reader an opportunity to navigate the challenges faced in harnessing the unlimited potential of our teens. Moving beyond the traditional and often outdated notions of leadership, Guiding the Next Great Generation is a must-read to help inform and empower teachers, coaches, stakeholders, and parents to use strengths, stewardship, and purpose as catalysts to help guide and develop future leaders. This text will now be an integral part of our teaching and learning curriculum for years to come.”
Matthew Ohlson, PhD, director of the Taylor Leadership Institute and associate professor in the Department of Leadership, School Counseling & Sport Management, University of North Florida
“We have no choice about aging, but getting old is a decision all humans make. Reading Guiding the Next Great Generation , I felt like a student and a teacher. Jonathan has created a must-read guide for generations of leaders.”
Ron Kitchens , CEO of Southwest Michigan First and author of Uniquely You: Transform Your Organization by Becoming the Leader Only You Can Be
“Jonathan Catherman presents a compelling case about the potential for today’s youth to become the next great generation. With chapter after chapter filled with practical tools and insights, this book is a must-read for parents, teachers, and coaches, as well as any adult who is in a position to support, guide, and positively influence young individuals, helping them discover how to live a life of service and purpose. After reading Guiding the Next Great Generation , you’ll be inspired to do even more to equip young people in your life with the skills needed to solve the challenges of tomorrow and prepare them for greatness.”
Nicole Suydam , president and CEO of Goodwill of Orange County, CA
Praise for The Manual to Manhood
“Consider this your survival guide on the sometimes rocky road to becoming a man. You’re going to love this book!”
Dr. Les Parrott , author of The Parent You Want to Be
“ The Manual to Manhood is an engaging, fun, and insightful how-to guide for guys on how to become a man. For those who want to build self-confidence, become independent, and fulfill your full potential, this book is for you.”
Sean Covey, author of the international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
“Every guy needs to know how to do everything in The Manual to Manhood . Jonathan is offering ‘young men in the making’ the truth about commonsense, real-world ways to gaining respect and avoid embarrassment on the challenging road to manhood. Every young man should read this book!”
Rick Johnson , bestselling author of Better Dads, Stronger Sons and A Man in the Making
“ The Manual to Manhood is the perfect book for parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors looking to help boys learn valuable life lessons, develop strengths, and discover their unique identity on the journey to manhood.”
Matthew Ohlson, PhD, College of Education, University of Florida, education and school improvement consultant, and proud father of three sons
Half Title Page
Books by Jonathan and Erica Catherman
The Girls’ Guide to Conquering Life
The Girls’ Guide to Conquering Middle School
Raising Them Ready
Books by Jonathan Catherman
The Manual to Manhood
The Manual to Middle School (with Reed and Cole Catherman)
Guiding the Next Great Generation
Becoming the Next Great Generation
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Copyright Page
© 2022 by Jonathan and Erica Catherman
Published by Revell
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.revellbooks.com
Ebook edition created 2022
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-2890-8
Scripture quotations labeled MSG are taken from THE MESSAGE , copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published in association with the Books & Such Literary Agency, 52 Mission Circle, Suite 122, PMB 170, Santa Rosa, CA, 95409-5370, www.booksandsuch.com
Some names and details have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.
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Baker Publishing Group publications use paper produced from sustainable forestry practices and post-consumer waste whenever possible.
Contents
Cover
Endorsements 1
Half Title Page 3
Books by Jonathan and Erica Catherman 4
Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Introduction 9
Part 1: READY 17
1. Adulting 19
2. Ready or Not 31
3. The Readiness Assessment 37
Part 2: SET 51
4. Mindset 53
5. Skillset 79
6. Phases and Stages 93
7. The Launch List—Stage 1 105
The Basics, Ages 2–8
8. The Launch List—Stage 2 121
Elementary, Ages 9–11
9. The Launch List—Stage 3 135
Middle, Ages 12–15
10. The Launch List—Stage 4 153
High, Ages 16–21+
11. Toolset 169
12. The Launch List Toolset 175
Part 3: GO 179
13. Letting Go 181
Conclusion 203
Notes 207
About the Authors 215
Back Ads 217
Back Cover 225
Introduction
You know what they say: “There’s a first time for everything.” Have you ever noticed we hear these words only when someone is trying to make an uncertain situation feel a little more comfortable? Maybe that’s why every loving mother and father has taken a deep breath and whispered to themselves in their most self-assuring tone, There’s a first time for everything , while facing two uncertain parenting firsts. Their first day home alone with a newborn baby and the first day home alone after their baby is all grown up and sets out on their own.
Both days arrive packed with great anticipation and more than a few questions. Looking down at their sleeping child snugly wrapped in a blanket like a baby burrito, the magnitude of their infant’s fragility leaves many parents awash in a mix of emotions. One minute they are overcome with joy and the next, anxiety. On that first day home alone, it’s completely understandable for parents to quietly ask themselves, “Are we really ready for this?” Years later, a similar question creeps into the thoughts of even the most seasoned parents. As they watch their grown child pack up, wave goodbye, and set out on their own, it’s totally normal for parents to wonder out loud, “Are they really ready for this?”
When the years between their first day home and first day away go as hoped, we know a remarkable transformation has occurred in the lives of our children. Once small and dependent on their parents for everything, our kids somehow survive the diaper rashes, home haircuts, bike crashes, and puberty to miraculously grow up to become happy, healthy, independent adults. Or so we’ve hoped.
Let’s just say it now and get it out in the open early. Being a parent is difficult. Actually, let’s be more specific. Being a consistent, patient, engaging, accessible, responsive, rational, present, safe, and loving parent who raises their children to become confident, capable, and kind young adults—now that’s difficult.
When by the grace of God we manage to guide our kids down the road between childhood and adulthood in a way that releases them into the world relatively unscathed, then you’d think we could relax. But we won’t really. Not all the way, that is. Because though our parenting responsibilities fade over time, we’ll always be there for our children as they face life’s many demands.
From personal experience, most parents have a pretty good idea of what’s on the long list of demands their kids will face while growing up. Then there’s all the new stuff our kids are dealing with that didn’t even exist when we were young. This means raising kids right in our rapidly changing world includes raising them ready to take on the types of challenges and threats that we didn’t know about when we were their age.
So, what does it mean to raise kids ready today? To many parents, “ready” sounds like a titanic task. Ready for what? Half the time our kids feel blindsided by stuff they never saw coming. Resilient as we know kids can be, the demands of our world can easily inflict great damage on the hulls of their fragile minds, hearts, spirits, and bodies. From internet trolls and online bullies to a global pandemic and political unrest. Social injustice, racial inequity, academic pressure, the burden of stress, boredom, and the always-in-their-face comparison of their life to the perfectly staged #bestlife of online “influencers” can leave many kids feeling confused and less than important. How do we safely and successfully help our children navigate through the stages of their young lives when we know such great and often damaging forces lie in wait?
There is no easy answer to this very real, very difficult parenting predicament. Yet, there is one thing we know for certain about raising children who grow into confident, capable, and kind adults. Those who are taught to take care of the seemingly little things in childhood are more prepared to steward the much larger opportunities and responsibilities of adulthood.
We became first-time parents in early 2001. We doubled down three years later with the addition of a second child to our young, ambitious family. In the two decades since, more than a few things have become crystal clear to us as parents. Mostly through trial and error. Here are our top ten favorite lessons learned in the years betwe