Sissy Goff, David Thomas and Melissa Trevathan, with 75 years of collective counseling experience, see today’s parents are changing. These parents are honest. They’re more self-aware. And they want to learn what it means to be intentional parents, parenting with purpose and hope, not with fear and guilt. These three should know – they are currently counseling children and offering parenting consultations to hundreds of families via Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville, TN and as they speak across the country to groups of parents. Their collective wisdom and experience forms the basis for their new book, Intentional Parenting: Autopilot is for Planes (Thomas Nelson Publishers, March 2013).
 

Here are their “Five Best Practices of Intentional Parents.”