Based on Chapman’s best-selling The 5 Love Languages®—a specialized resource of intentional love for families of adopted children.
Adoption brings unique challenges. Love and bonding don’t always come naturally. There can be emotional distress, frustration, and disappointment. In Loving Adopted Children Well, Dr. Gary Chapman along with professor and mom of adopted kids Dr. Laurel Shaler share how The 5 Love Languages® provide concrete steps to infusing love, hope, and attachment in your family.
In addition to the beauty and healing you’ll discover in the chapters on the love languages—Service, Gifts, Physical Touch, Quality Time, and Words of Affirmation—the authors provide essential chapters on subjects such as:
- When You Don’t “Feel the Love”
- Getting Spouses on the Same Page
- Help for Single Parents
- Stopping Sibling Rivalry
- Support—Why it’s Needed and Where to Find It . . . and more.
With empathy for adoptive parents, Chapman and Shaler provide an honest and invaluable resource of wisdom, joy, and healing. Apply the lessons from Loving Adopted Children Well, and you will see love grow and flourish in your home.
“I said I was sorry! What more do you want?”
Even in the best of relationships, we mess up. We say and do things we deeply regret later on. So we need to make things right. But just saying you’re sorry isn’t enough. That’s only the first step on the road to restoration.
In The 5 Apology Languages, Gary Chapman, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the 5 Love Languages®, partners with Jennifer Thomas to help you on the journey toward restored relationships. True healing comes when you learn to:
- Express regret: “I’m sorry.”
- Accept responsibility: “I was wrong.”
- Make restitution: “How can I make it right?”
- Plan for change: “I’ll take steps to prevent a reoccurrence.”
- Request forgiveness: “Can you find it in your heart to . . . ?”
Don’t let hurts linger or wounds fester. Start on the path to healing today and discover how meaningful apologies can make your friendships, family, and marriage stronger than ever before.
Is your family all that it could be?
Many feel bombarded by images and experiences of broken families, but this is not how God intended families to be!
So often we examine the traits of unhealthy families, but Gary Chapman paints a biblical portrait of what a loving, stable family looks like. He details five timeless characteristics that create a healthy family environment:
- A heart for service
- Husbands and wives who relate intimately
- Parents who guide their children
- Children who obey and honor their parents
- Husbands who love and lead
In Dr. Chapman's own words, 'What happens to your family does make a difference not only to you and your children, but to the thousands of young observers who are in search of a functional family.'
This book is not merely for reading, but for living. Experience God's design for family.
Falling in love is very easy. But keeping love alive is a real challenge. How to maintain strong and harmonious relationships despite conflicts and daily challenges?
This audiobook will reveal to you a secret that has already helped a huge number of people around the world improve their relationships. Regardless of how strong your bond is, Gary Chapman's method will help you achieve another level of relationship and experience all the joy of mutual love!
After listening, you will learn:
how to determine which love language you and your partner speak;
what factors influence the formation of a love language;
how to learn to understand and listen to each other;
how to avoid psychological difficulties and build happy relationships.
The approaches proposed by the author are universal. They can be used not only in marriage and romantic relationships, but also in building communication with children and loved ones.Falling in love is very easy. But keeping love alive is a real challenge. How to maintain strong and harmonious relationships despite conflicts and daily challenges?
This audiobook will reveal to you a secret that has already helped a huge number of people around the world improve their relationships. Regardless of how strong your bond is, Gary Chapman's method will help you achieve another level of relationship and experience all the joy of mutual love!
After listening, you will learn:
how to determine which love language you and your partner speak;
what factors influence the formation of a love language;
how to learn to understand and listen to each other;
how to avoid psychological difficulties and build happy relationships.
The approaches proposed by the author are universal. They can be used not only in marriage and romantic relationships, but also in building communication with children and loved ones.
Real life, encouraging stories embodying the bold, brave, beautiful choice to love.
“To last for the long haul and through the stresses and complexities of life, love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriages and families, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies. And that's what this book is about. In its pages, you'll see examples of people just like you—like all of us—who learned to take the obstacles, the lemons they face in life, and turn them into satisfying, emotional thirst-quenching nectar. These are the success stories that make you want to go out and discover the power of love.” Gary Chapman
If you’re feeling weary or burdened by the call to love, you’ll find strength and hope in the pages of this book. Love is a Choice gives us stories of love in action, inspiring us to go deeper in our relationships. Each story is coupled with 5 Love Languages® insights and application points.
Read by the authors.
We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.
Many of us want to do something to improve race relations, but we don't know where to start or even if we can make a difference. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, beloved authors and good friends Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler answer those questions and more by recounting their own story together.
Long before Gary was the bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages and Clarence was the president and CEO of Building Lasting Relationships, they were just an associate pastor and a young high school student, bonded by a love of Christ and learning how to navigate their newly desegregated community. Decades of friendship later, they are sharing the important lessons they learned that will enable you to experience enriching friendships across racial and ethnic barriers.
Each chapter of this inspiring and practical book will guide you into a deeper level of understanding about what friendship is and about the benefits of cross-cultural friendships on an individual and national level. These powerful lessons will include:
- The importance of choosing the right words
- How to differentiate true friends from mere acquaintances
- How Jesus initiated a cross-cultural relationship
- The first two steps to your own cross-cultural friendship
- Three ways to resolve conflict in a cross-cultural friendship
- How to make friendships last through life's many seasons
Breaking down the walls of division might not be easy, but the simple act of building friendships tears down walls of racism and fear. Will you accept the cross-cultural friendship challenge?
Reflection questions are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Vom Autor des Nr. 1 New York Times Bestsellers 'Die 5 Sprachen der Liebe' Dr. Gary Chapman. Mehr als eine Million Exemplare verkauft.
Ihre ganze Liebe gilt Ihren Kindern. Aber sind Sie sich sicher, dass Ihre Kinder das auch spüren? Denn - was versteht Ihr Kind überhaupt unter Liebe?
Der Psychotherapeut und Eheberater Dr. Gary Chapman geht davon aus, dass jedes Kind eine ganz bestimmte Muttersprache der Liebe spricht und auch versteht. Das sind Signale, die ihm eindeutig sagen, dass seine Eltern ihn lieben.
In dieser ungekürzten Hörbuch-Ausgabe 'Die fünf Sprachen der Liebe für Kinder' versetzt der Autor die Eltern, also die Hörerinnen und Hörer in die Lage, die Muttersprache ihres Kindes zu erkennen und auch die Anwendung der 5 Muttersprachen der Liebe zu lernen:
* Körperkontakt
* Lob und Anerkennung
* Ich bin ganz für dich da
* Ich schenke dir was
* Ich helfe dir
Lernen Sie mit diesem Hörbuch die Muttersprache der Liebe, die Ihr Kind spricht. Lernen Sie, es wirklich zu verstehen - weil ein gesundes Familienklima so wichtig ist!
Im englischen Original erschien das Buch unter dem Titel 'The 5 Love Languages of Children. The Secret to Loving Children Effectively'
This book was firstly published in the United States by Northfield Publishing with the title The 5 Love Languages of Children, copyright (c) 1997, 2005, 2012, 2016 by Gary D. Chapman and Estate of Ross Campbell. Translated by permission. All rights reserved. The 5 Love Languages is a registered trademark of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago in the United States and other jurisdictions. (c) 1997 / 2014 Verlag der Francke-Buchhandlung GmbH. (P) 2019 AB Publishing
Workplace conflict is inevitable. When it happens, how can you get back on track?
Like all relationships, the ones we have at work are subject to stresses—maybe even fractures that can really take a toll on the workplace. Productivity is lost. Time is wasted. Tension mounts. Cooperation is reduced. And the workplace becomes toxic. What’s the solution?
In Making Things Right at Work, Dr. Gary Chapman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages®, is joined by business consultants Dr. Jennifer Thomas and Dr. Paul White to offer the strategies you need to restore harmony at work. You’ll learn:
- How to discern the causes of workplace conflict
- How to avoid unnecessary disputes
- How to repair relationships when you’ve messed up
- How to let go of past hurts and rebuild trust
Don’t let broken relationships taint your work environment. Take the needed steps to make things right . . . not tomorrow, but today. The success of your career depends on it!
Help your child navigate the teenage years and become a mature adult.
The transition from childhood to adulthood is hard for everyone. Physical changes—on the inside as well as the outside—make for a lot of ups and downs. The teenage years are turbulent, no question about it. But if you’re a parent or caregiver, don’t despair. There’s a way through!
Gary Chapman, beloved author of The 5 Love Languages®, has raised two kids of his own, so he knows what it’s like to ride the roller coaster of parenting teens. Now he combines the hard-earned wisdom of a parent with the expertise of a counselor to help you know what to look out for. You’ll learn:
- That teens are still developing the ability to think logically
- That teens need to learn how to apologize and forgive
- And most importantly, that a parent’s example is more important that their words
Though the years ahead will be demanding, you don’t have to feel helpless. Let Gary Chapman point the way you as you guide your child through this challenging yet rewarding new stage of life.
Get to know the man behind the 5 Love Languages®. You just might discover yourself along the way.
Many people are familiar with Dr. Gary Chapman, author of The 5 Love Languages®. Millions have been transformed by this New York Times bestselling book. But as influential as Gary has been, the surprising thing is . . . he’s just a regular guy, not much different than you and me. And in the mirror of his life, you might discover your own story, too.
In Life Lessons and Love Languages, you’ll look behind the curtain for a glimpse of Gary’s life, from his upbringing in Small Town, USA to becoming a bestselling author and international speaker. What makes him tick may surprise you!
In Gary’s story, you’ll discover five great influences that shaped his, and most of our lives: home, education, marriage, children, and vocation. Even if you don’t experience each influence yourself, you’ll benefit from seeing how these pillars of human society work together to form productive individuals. Getting to know Gary will be a lot of fun. But getting to know yourself and how the world works is a gift that this small-town kid doesn’t want you to miss.
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