Do you believe your struggle with anger stems from the wrong behavior you see displayed in your children?
The knee-jerk reactions and blow-ups you’re facing are often a result of a bigger set of “triggers.” Some of these are external, like a child’s disobedience, backtalk, or selective hearing. Others are internal, like an overflowing schedule, sleep deprivation, or perhaps your own painful experiences from childhood.
If you’re overwhelmed and find yourself defaulting to the same harsh reactions and negative interactions with your kids…
If you’re tired of spinning your wheels and wondering where you lost the joy of parenting…
…I want you to know first and foremost that you are not alone.
As a Boy-Mom of four sons, ages 5-15, I’m right there in the trenches with you — I get it!
My prayer is that with the “come-alongside approach” you’ll find in my books, online community, and the other parenting resources on this page, you’ll discover deep encouragement and practical ways to make healthier choices in your role as a mom or dad.
We’ll take this one step at a time and watch God bring healing and hope to our parenting journey!
Check out the tools I’ve created below to help jumpstart your journey today!
To start, I’d love for you to click over and request to join the exclusive Facebook group I’ve built with my co-author, Wendy Speake. In this online space, you will find yourself in the company of like-minded moms and dads. As we all wrestle with similar triggers in our parenting journey, we’ve committed together to continue developing gentle, Biblical responses to those triggers every day.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Triggers: Exchanging Parents’ Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses examines common parenting issues that cause us to explode inappropriately at our children. Moving beyond simple parenting tips on how to change your child’s behavior, authors Amber Lia and Wendy Speake offer biblical insight and practical tools to equip and encourage you on the journey away from anger-filled reactions toward gentle, biblical responses.
Additionally, Amber and Wendy have created an in-depth study guide to accompany Triggers that is perfect for individual reflection or a group study setting. This resource features a come-alongside approach to working through external and internal triggers that fuel your struggle with anger and will provide you with:
+ Rich passages of Scripture to meditate on and tuck into your heart for strength.
+ Expanded thoughts on each trigger for further teaching and encouragement.
+ Questions to spark personal reflection and to help move you toward action.
+ Plenty of room to write out your thoughts and work through the chapter questions.
+ Additional space for doodling, writing out prayers or action plans, and more!
ABOUT THE BOOK
You want to say the right thing when your children do wrong — the trouble is most parents aren't sure where to even begin. Parenting Scripts: When What You’re Saying Isn’t Working, Say Something New is the much-needed resource for moms and dads who are desperate to speak life to their children instead of defaulting to the same old words and ineffective consequences. Focusing on the most ordinary and yet troublesome areas in our daily routines, Parenting Scripts helps parents to craft intentional, well-thought-out, and prayed-over words.
When parents step back to consider their children's wrong actions, there's a chance they can plan the right reactions. In the margins of their busy day, Parenting Scripts leads parents to a calm place where they can pinpoint their family's bad habits and choose better ways of dealing with immature behavior — theirs and their children's.
Laid out as a parenting book and workbook all in one, each of the thirty-one chapters includes:
+ Parenting Script: the main lesson with a new “script” to try
+ Scriptures and Prayer Script: verses to apply and a prayer
+ Make the Script Your Own: blank pages to craft a script
OTHER PARENTING RESOURCES
Spanish Edition of Triggers - Detonantes
Wendy and I are so excited to have Triggers: Exchanging Parents’ Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses translated for our Spanish-speaking friends. Check out Detonantes: Cabiando las reacciones airadas de los padres por respuestas biblical amables on Amazon!
Holiday Triggers
If you’re feeling like peace on earth is a little out of reach this holiday season, I have a simple digital resource to bring your home a little comfort and joy — Holiday Triggers: Trading Stress and Anger for Peaceful Parenting This Christmas.
Wendy and I have created this resource with your heart and this season in mind — it’s a quick and easy read; full of scriptural truths and practical ideas for topics like overstimulation and the surge of sugar, managing expectations and disappointment, the pressures of interactions with extended family, and more!
It’s never too late to redeem the holiday season — take a moment to give your entire family the gift of peace and grace.
The 3-Day Clean + Dry Approach: A Gentle Potty-Training Method
The 3-Day Clean + Dry Approach: A Gentle Potty-Training Method provides parents of young children with wonderful insight into the world of potty training by outlining a gentle approach for success!
I’ve successfully potty-trained four boys, and the simple method I lay out in this resource gives parents and their little ones a step-by-step plan and the tools to gently transition to using the potty on a regular basis in just three days!
If you're ready to ditch the diapers and help your child grow into the next stage of big kid status, this quick read is the perfect addition to your parenting resources.
Study Buddy Bible Study Guides
These Study Buddy Bible Study Guides are for every parent who wants their child to develop the life-long habit of studying Scripture. Full of simple yet practical applications, each guide focuses on 20 key verses centered on a particular theme that teach kids how to turn to Scripture for wisdom and encouragement. Designed to take just 10 minutes a day, these collaborative studies are a wonderful way to reach your child's heart without being overwhelming. These guides don't follow a "teacher-student" format — instead, you'll learn side by side, as Study Buddies!
Each day includes:
A verse from God's Word to study
Space to write and commit Scripture to heart
A big idea to remember
Several interactive questions for reflection
Parent/child questions to spark lively conversation
Printable Scripture Passages + Prayer for Labor + Delivery
Each pregnancy and delivery is unique and full of unexpected moments — the one constant we can rely on is God’s unchanging Word and His faithful promises.
To support and guide you during the short and powerful season of Labor + Delivery, I’ve crafted two simple printables:
A hand-picked list of 12 key passages to meditate on and serve as reminders of where your strength lies.
A simple prayer to help you set your eyes on the one who knit your baby together and is the provider of peace.
Print out these resources and tuck them into the bag you’ve got ready for the day when your little one arrives. Nothing will help you more than clinging to the truth of God’s Word. May His Word bring you peace of mind, encouragement, and strength!
