Resources

— Parental Advocacy —

“In this book Drs. Robert and S. June Kennedy argue persuasively for a new approach to parenting, one that is clearly grounded in the social sciences and strong in religious tradition. It is a must-read for all parents especially those who feel disempowered to act in any meaningful manner.”

Sylvan A. Lashley, M.B.A., Ed.D., J.D.,
Superintendent of Schools, Northeastern Conference of SDA

“I am convinced that this book, Parental Advocacy, is a most helpful guide for the many parents who feel lost and, of course, all who seek to do proactive parenting.”

Madeline Corredor,
Director, Family Success Center of Orange, NJ.

— Life Maps Legacy: Delightful Destiny or Dead End? —

“In an age of societal regression, low self-esteem, rising juvenile delinquency, teen peer pressure, drug and alcohol abuse, and eroding family values, this workbook comes as an oasis for this post-modern generation.”

Alanzo H. Smith. D. Min., Ed.D. LMFT:LMHS
Director of Familty Ministries, Greater NY Conference of SDA

“The material presented in this manual is exciting and inspirational. It is a most effective tool for those who destine to help young people gain direction on their life’s pathway.”

Nephtaly Dorzilme, D. Min., Pastor, Ontario Conference of SDA
Ontario, Canada

— No Need to Fight —

For as long as there have been families, parent-child relationships have been the cause for happiness and, perhaps as often, a source of stress, distress and grief. The beauty of fusion frequently disintegrates into the calamity of fission as childhood gives way to adolescence, Adolescence too often transforms the home environment into a war zone. Today’s social realities make this situation more troubling, and the environment even more toxic, than in times past.

Is this scenario inescapable? Dr. Nephtaly Dorzilme’s Need to Fight answers from cover to cover with a resounding “No!” Dr. Dorzilme writes from the conviction that adolescence, far from being a pathological social anomaly, engages both parent and child in a normal continuum within the human development process. Individuation, through which children distinguish and separate themselves from the family of their birth, is a necessary step in preparing to visualize and establish new families of their own.

Adolescence, then, is part of the preparation to leave the old and begin the new, No Need to Fight is a thorough, well-informed and highly successful attempt to explain the transformation, and often sadly, the breakdown, in the parent -adolescent arrangement. No Need to Fight also gives parents the tools to establish or re-establish harmonious, God-ordained relationships with their adolescents.