Dr. Dan Allender is the author of The Wounded Heart, Bold Love, Intimate Allies, and The Healing Path. He is the president of Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington, and professor of counseling there. Dr. Dan Allender is the author of The Wounded Heart, Bold Love, Intimate Allies, and The Healing Path. He is the president of Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington, and professor of counseling there.
Allender's overtly Christian take on parenting is both passionate and personal, but his preachiness and uneven narration overwhelm any valuable points he raises. Allender (The Wounded Heart) devotes considerable time to waxing on the blessings and travails of parenting as well as the artificiality of imposing parental rule systems on children. As an audio experience, this is the equivalent of listening to the author wonder aloud whether to overprotect his kids or, conversely, to tag-and-release them into the wild. The topic of exactly how kids "raise" parents is avoided much of the time in favor of exhorting parents to empathize with and understand their children. Though zealous, Allender makes for a particularly poor narrator; he speaks rapidly in a soft voice that quickly becomes monotonous. There are many faith-based parenting books (like those of William and Martha Sears) available in audio, as well as Thomas W. Phelan's more mainstream classic 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12. Recommended only for Christian collections.-Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Hartford Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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