{"id":125028,"date":"2025-08-21T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125028"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:24:06","slug":"good-news-for-parents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125028","title":{"rendered":"Good News for Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2cd73edd-5db8-443a-bff3-e339c9ee830d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">Most parents I know could do with a bit of good news. Though parenting brings many joys, it also brings its share of struggles and sorrows. Though parenting is a fulfilling task, it is often also an exasperating one. And often the source of the exasperation is the parents themselves\u2014their flaws, their sins, their failures. Parents have a near-infinite capacity to feel lousy about their parenting and to limp along under the crushing weight of feelings of failure.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"a2535987-eb4d-4b27-9803-5c2c80284719\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-119bc444 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"178d9ed9-547f-4ce6-b8af-e094cc19e934\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-22223934 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> Good News for Parents <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"e10f5873-dad4-468e-bb75-bce97d901e75\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e44ade59 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"27a36faf-3901-4be8-972f-d1893debdf69\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Adam Griffin<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"13d527f5-af4c-4e34-b749-f83f14ab31f4\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"2b23ad08-80bc-4df9-b73a-4dc2ffe10bab\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-9e89c9a3 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"85a7208c-3f80-40f6-a7dc-ecc9a97abee3\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4mUduLF\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/good-news-for-parents\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4mUduLF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a> <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"4bd3fe79-b58e-4f9f-a501-d44bde9fd420\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/good-news-for-parents-how-god-can-restore-our-joy-and-relieve-our-burdens-9781433597725?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from WTS Books<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"70c64c60-e2d1-44b3-bd86-3147ab4674e2\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"03f7b9f6-aceb-47fd-a9ad-1c41bd580edf\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Griffin has written a book for parents, but <em><a target=\"_blank\" id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4mUduLF\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/good-news-for-parents\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4mUduLF\">Good News for Parents<\/a><\/em> is not the kind that is meant to offer a plan or strategy to help get kids from infancy to functioning adults. It\u2019s not that Griffin sees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most parents I know could do with a bit of good news. Though parenting brings many joys, it also brings its share of struggles and sorrows. Though parenting is a fulfilling task, it is often also an exasperating one.See AlsoWeekend A La Carte (July 26)Books about the Challenges of Parenting in a Modern WorldWho\u2019s Afraid of the Teenage Years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":125043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-125028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/liv-bruce-odIhQypCuUk-unsplash-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125044,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125028\/revisions\/125044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}