New Releases by Kendra Smiley

Every mom wants to be the best she can be, but many question if they''d even earn an honorable mention for the work they do. Being a mom isn''t an easy job and it can feel a little lonely. After all, it''s a crazy combination of sleepless nights, cranky kids, difficult decisions, and overwhelming joy. It''s filled with questions without answers and answers to questions you didn''t ask. And you are paid for all your unselfish effort in peanut butter and jelly kisses and dandelion bouquets--priceless, unforgettable rewards you wouldn''t think of trading. What a wild adventure! Mother of the Year will take you on a 365-day journey filled with encouragement to be the mom you want to be. Motherhood is the toughest job you''ll ever love and you can do it!

Motherhood is a gift from God! You want to be the best mom you can be, but often you are left wondering if you’re even close to achieving that goal. One day you feel like an enormous success, the next a total failure. It is a crazy combination of peaks and valleys. Payment for this wild adventure comes in the form of sticky kisses and dandelion bouquets—priceless, unforgettable rewards from the most precious of treasures. Mother of the Year will take you on a 365-day journey filled with purpose, guidance, inspiration, and encouragement to be the mom you want to be. Motherhood is the toughest job you’ll ever love, but you can do it!

What to Throw Away What to Give Away What to Keep Your heart can be cluttered with a mix of trash and treasures-like that extra closet you don''t want to open or the junk drawer in your kitchen. With tender care, Kendra Smiley weaves engaging, funny, poignant stories and biblical principles into practical advice for you. Kendra will help you throw away the trash, give away treasures, and keep what''s important.

Women today need to be reminded that regardless of their situations, they have the power to control their attitudes. Kendra Smiley has written Live Free to teach women that they can make choices which will help them develop and maintain a positive state of mind. She introduces us to women who share their real-life experiences to show readers by example how to make those empowering choices.

Offers parents advice on maintaining a healthy marital relationship from a Christian perspective, emphasizing how making choices that impact the marriage also affect the lives of the children, and providing day-to-day insights on raising children, setting priorities, and other topics.

You can Parent Like a Pro™ with Kendra and John Smiley! Readers will be familiar with Kendra’s strong-willed child, Aaron, from Aaron’s Way. Updated and refreshed, this book brings to life and light the challenges of rearing a child who wants to do things his or her own way. Resident Dad John Smiley lends his insights on the father’s role in a willful child’s discipline, and Aaron — now grown — adds his unique perspective.

Building a healthy marriage can give your kids a great head start in life. Kendra and John Smiley learned this through the ups and downs of raising three sons, all now grown. With her trademark humor, honesty, and the wisdom that she has shared on Focus on the Family and Family Life Today, Kendra offers practical, day-in, day-out insights on kids, marriage, and much more. She shares her wisdom on such topics as setting priorities and coming to grips with family backgrounds, showing how when we make the right choice for our marriage, we''re making the right choice for our children. "Resident Dad" John pitches in with his perspective. Learn how to "parent like a pro"!

Instead of tuning in to Super Nanny or Nanny 911, pick up this humorous yet biblically-solid book of parenting advice. Kendra Smiley, author of High Wire Mom and Aaron''s Way, once again hits on a subject that moms and dads are longing to hear: how can I be a better parent and raise great and godly children? With wisdom gleaned both as parent and teacher, Kendra suggests seven proactive choices parents can make to help reduce family stress and avoid parenting emergencies. Each chapter ends with a dash of advice from her husband, John, who offers a dad''s point of view. Whether exhausted and struggling or just longing to improve their skills, Be the Parent is the perfect resource for moms and dads seeking to positively impact their children. Includes survey responses from real parents.

One Rehearsal Christmas Plays is the answer to gaining an extra hour or two, feeling less harried and focusing on Christ while directing the church Christmas program! With One Rehearsal Christmas Plays, your Sunday school department will encourage, entertain, and enlighten the congregation as they follow the "Footsteps to the Manager" or as they present a slightly altered version of "T''was the Night before Christmas." One Rehearsal Christmas Plays features these productions and ten others with a Scriptural message and minimal preparation! Completely Reproducible!

Women today need to be reminded that regardless of their situations, they have the power to control their attitudes. Kendra Smiley has written Empowering Choices to teach women that they can make choices which will help them develop and maintain a positive state of mind. She introduces us to women who share their real-life experiences to show readers by example how to make those empowering choices.

More and more women are becoming home-based business moms, attempting the delicate balance of serving God, their husbands, their children, and running a business from home. Kendra has a passion to help women succeed in achieving these goals . . . without losing her mind. Using the awe-inspiring example of the Proverbs 31 woman to teach readers how to prioritize her commitments and opportunities, Smiley provides practical tools and time-saving tips that will guide women across the tightrope to the achievement of the goals.

Motivational speaker and author Kendra Smiley persuades parents that it takes commitment, discipline, and action to get children to make good choices. After explaining what''s involved in making good choices, she shows parents at different stages of child-rearing how to use biblical principles and tested wisdom to do it. The book gives parents confidence in training their children by employing the Mega guidelines: Modeling, Encouraging, Guiding, and Allowing. Matthew, Aaron, and Jonathan, Smiley''s sons -- all trained by their room and dad to make good choices -- endorse her approach in their foreword to the book.

Mothers will chuckle in agreement as they recognize themselves in this humorous and understanding look at the various aspects of motherhood. Broken into "head things," "heart things" and "hand things," this uplifting gift book reminds moms that children are a gift from God and reaffirms the value of motherhood. bull; bull; Perfect for Mother''s Day, but has year-round appeal bull; Reminds mothers that God knows their fears, frustrations and joy bull; Light-hearted support for moms bull; Full-color, illustrated gift book Kendra Smiley is a mom, wife, motivational speaker, author and Successful Living dealer. She has boundless energy for promoting her work and a contagious, bubbly personality. Smiley has a heart for God and for women who need to "lighten up." She, her husband and their three sons live on a farm near East Lynn, Illinois.

Throw away, give away, keep -- with these watchwords Kendra Smiley''s mom annually reduced clutter in her home. In this book, Kendra shows us how to apply the same approaches to "spring clean" our hearts, to sort the things we have hoarded inside, that block wholesome Christian living. With humor, biblical principles and wonderful anecdotes, Kendra shows us how to throw away emotional, psychological and spiritual junk, give away some good things to bless others and keep only the life-sustaining, pure and noble things. Kendra Smiley belongs on the shelf next to Barbara Johnson and Patsy Clairmont -- she''s that good.