With All Due Respect: Book Review

With All Due Respect, written by Ruesner and Hitchcock, was a very interesting, good book to read on how to raise tweens and teens. I am a mother to four children under the age of 6 years old. I have yet to reach the "tween" era, but since I just sent my oldest child off to school for the first time, I figured this book would give me some insight on what to expect. I also sent my second oldest to pre-k.

My children love to push boundaries, and often test the waters, especially with two of them being in school already. They come home, positive they know better than me and that they don't have to obey or respect me anymore. Outside influences are way too strong.

So when I got this book, I was excited to see if this would help me with my relationship with my kids already. And sure enough, I believe the authors did a great job helping me now, even though we aren't at the stage of the tweenage madness.

This book gave several great pointers on how to be gentle, loving, kind, compassionate (and all those other great traits of a good parent) parent to my kids. It went in depth on how to go deeper with God as well, which is important as a Jesus-following family. I love the way they wrote it, where they asked questions about me, the reader, to consider and to answer. It was very interactive and sort of pulled the reader (me) into keeping on reading. I didn't want to put the book down. Normally that only happens when it's a story book, like fiction or a very well written biography. But this one was great! I would suggest it to anyone who is starting out with raising kids at any age.

I was given this book for free to review by BookLookBloggers. I was not compensated in any way.

Go Big or Go Home: Scotty McCreary

This is a book review for BookLookBloggers. I was given this book to review for free.

Scotty McCreary was a small town, country boy that lived a typical life as a check out boy at their small grocery store and decided to audition for American Idol, and ultimately won, becoming a national sensation across the entire world.

I love his heart behind what he wrote. It showed how people can be real, small town people and go from pretty much doing nothing with their life to living their dream. It shows, that with a bit of determination and elbow grease, that anyone can reach for the moon and at least land on the stars!

His humility and determination throughout the book is a very good example on how people should live their life. I love that he brings his faith in God into it. It shows that a young man can still love God, and still be a star across the nations.

From singing on a school bus in grade school to living the dream, traveling in tour buses with revered bands across the world, Scotty McCreary shows that a person can be humble, yet live a fabulous life!