What Every Child Needs: Getting to the Heart of Mothering - Hardcover

The love you have for your children can give them a foundation for life--provided you show it in the ways they need most. And now there's help from the people best qualified to give it: moms like you who are successfully meeting the challenge.

What Every Child Needs draws on the insights of moms across the United States and on the latest research to help you meet your children's nine basic needs for

Security: Hold-Me-Close Love

Affirmation: Crazy-About-Me Love

Belonging: Fit-Me-Into-the-Family Love

Discipline: Give-Me-Limits Love

Guidance: Show-Me-and-Tell-Me Love

Respect: Let-Me-Be-Me Love

Play: Play-With-Me Love

Independence: Let-Me-Grow-Up Love

Hope: Give-Me-Hope Love

Using a child's language of love, Elisa Morgan and Carol Kuykendall of Mothers of Preschoolers International (MOPS) show you how to recognize and meet each need . . . and how to respect your own needs in the process.

You've got what it takes! And you don't have to be Supermom to do it--just the mother and the person you are.

What Every Child Needs is full of sound advice and encouraging words. It's liberally seasoned with poignant stories and wise, witty quotes from moms. And it's well-stocked with practical suggestions for how to start meeting your child's different needs today.

This upbeat book will give you what you need to give your children what they need. So say good-bye to those nagging fears and self-doubts . . . and hello to healthy, effective parenting.

Carol Kuykendall is vice-president of communication ministries for MOPS International. A freelance writer and speaker, she is the author of Learning to Let Go, Give Them Wings, A Mother’s Footprints of Faith, and co-author of What Every Mom Needs. She is a regular contributor to Guideposts and Daily Guideposts (devotionals), and she teaches classes, workshops, and retreats on parenting