Do you have a green thumb when it comes to parenting?
Hettie Brittz helps parents grow and nurture
their children’s God-given personalities
Through Brittz’s famous tree metaphors,
parents will discover how to encourage their kids to excel at being who they
naturally are as they grow in their unique purpose in the world. “Our first
question as parents is usually: What can I do with this child? Actually, the
question should be: What can I become for this child? The answer is straight-forward;
I can invite the Great Gardener (God) to prune me even as I am pruning my
saplings and to shape me while I am shaping my young ones so we might all bear
fruit,” Brittz explains.
The first step to identifying a child’s
natural bent and how it affects the parenting journey is to take the online
Tall Trees Profiles assessment. Each copy of the book includes a code for one
free, in-depth child profile report. Supplied with the knowledge of what tree
type (or combination of types) best describes the child, Growing Kids with Character provides
insights for understanding and embracing each child’s unique journey and
outlines how to shape his or her character for his or her purpose in Christ.
Parents will learn how to:
- Recognize their child’s strongest characteristics and apply that knowledge to everyday life.
- Speak their child’s unique dialect (or “tree language”) to foster effective communication.
- Cultivate each of their kids’ unique way of encountering, following, and worshipping God.
- Disciple and discipline based on each child’s blueprint.
- Help their child celebrate God’s individualized design for others.
For those who think this approach to
parenting puts the child in charge, Brittz assures skeptics this is not true. “It can easily
seem as though Growing Kids with
Character promotes child-centered parenting that coddles the kid by
ensuring the world accommodates all their needs while never asking them to grow
beyond their comfort zone. That is something real life simply won’t do for the
child, and I can emphatically say I’d never recommend that approach. Instead,
the idea is to discern the absolute essential emotional and spiritual needs of
each child and to fulfill those while identifying the areas in which each child
will need a bit of discomfort, challenging expectations from our side, and
support to change potentially harmful or unhelpful characteristics. A child has
to feel loved, accepted, and understood before such a child can press beyond
selfishness and entitlement.”
For any parents who thought their child
should have come with an instruction manual, Brittz provides a resource to
understand their child’s natural bents not only to excel in life but also to firmly
establish their identity and purpose in Christ better.
The Tall Trees Kids Test and Tall
Trees Parenting Profiles are available at www.TallTreesTraining.com.
Readers can join Hettie for a Facebook Live discussion of Growing Kids with Character on April 3 at 8 PM EST.
About
the author
Hettie
Brittz is
a wife, mother, speaker, author, and a foremost voice in parenting advice and
personality styles. During her travels with her husband Louis’s band, Brittz
became fascinated by the various approaches to parenting they encountered
around the world. It enlarged her perspective and became the foundation for her
first three parenting books released in South Africa. Her first book released
in the United Sates was (un)Natural Mom (2016),
and now Growing Kids with Character is
available for American audiences.
A former speech, hearing, and language
pathologist, Brittz developed the Evergreen Parenting Course and codeveloped the
Tall Trees Profiles. She leads trainings on the Tall Trees Profiles in the
areas of parenting, leadership, and more.
Between homeschooling her three kids
and joining her husband on his ministry outreaches, Brittz tours
internationally, speaking to audiences around the globe, as well as appearing
in weekly parenting spots on South African television. She is also an annual
speaker with Focus on the Family Africa.
Her key convictions are that there is
hope for every individual and any relationship and that there is no place or
circumstance so dark that God can't turn it around for good.
Keep up with Hettie Brittz by visiting
www.hettiebrittz.com or
following her on Facebook (HettieBrittzAuthor) or Twitter (@hettiebrittz).
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