My Review of "Safe House"

Joshua Straub's Safe House:  How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids who Live, Love, and Lead Well shares perspectives on the ways to develop emotional safety at home.  He starts with the parent, encouraging you to examine your story, the people and events that influence your parenting and where you might already be on the spectrum of grace and truth/exploring and protecting.

The goal is not to create more stress for parents, but to encourage them to develop a beautiful life story with their children.

And in that, he succeeds.

Straub covers some specific parenting topics such as how to keep communication open with your kids even while disciplining them, how to nurture your child’s brain, how to build a support community so you aren't going it alone, and how to tend to your marriage and work together as a team.  He spent a large part of the book working through what he calls the "four walls of a safe house" -- grace, truth, explore, protect -- with charts and graphs and psychological analysis to determine why you are the way you are and whether you're out of balance.

That makes Safe House essential reading for parents of children of any age.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.