UPDATED WITH WINNERS!!!
Ok, so here's what I did. I wrote down all seven names on small pieces of paper, folded them and put them in a cup.I shook the cup and gave it to Mike to pull out five names. Here are the winners-
Celesta G
Lydia
Geempaw
Sarah Thompson
Jes
A huge thank-you to everyone who entered. I really appreciated it.
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Giveaway is now closed!! Winners announced tomorrow evening! Check back!
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I've been MIA this week on my blog and it's killing me! We've been super busy on Mike's "vacation" week moving things around in our house(and making a huge mess in the process), de-cluttering, yard working, getting ready for Maddy's 2nd birthday party on Saturday, oh, and actually "vacationing" a bit by going to the beach and spending time at the pool. I've not been on the computer much! I have a ton of pictures to upload from both VBS's, the beach and soon Madelyn's birthday party. So, to tide myself my readers over until next week when I can blog more consistently I am hosting a giveaway! I have FIVE copies of Kurt and Olivia Bruner's book " How To Mess Up Your Child's Life" to send to five lucky readers. The Bruners are parents to four children and are faculty members with The Center For Strong Families and host the HomePointe ministry. They are authors and co-authors of many numerous books on children and family. Kurt spent twenty years as VP of Focus On The Family. So, as you can see, they know what they are talking about when it comes to biblical parenting.
All you have to do to enter this giveaway is leave me a comment on this post. Any kind of comment. Say whatever you want. Just comment to enter. If you want more chances to win keep on reading.
" What? I don't want to mess up my child's life!" you say. Well, duh, this book isn't really about how to mess up your child's life but how to avoid messing it up by NOT doing the things Kurt and Olivia mention in this book.Confused? This book is written with a "tongue-in-cheek" , sarcastic and witty(and did I mention biblical?) approach on parenting based on " the seven habits of highly defective people" (the seven deadly sins). I guess you could call it " the seven habits of highly defective parenting". If you want to mess up your child's life, just follow the kind of parenting the Bruners write about in this book. But if you don't want to follow their "mess- up strategies" you can follow their wonderful advice and precautions at the end of each chapter on how to keep your child from falling into these messed up behavioral traps. In fact, they put a warning sign right before their wonderful parenting strategies that says " WARNING! The following ideas could be hazardous to the process of messing up your child's life. Read at your own risk!" Clever!
This book is fun, fresh and easy to read. I enjoyed the practical tips and the "backward" writing approach it takes. There are so many parenting books out there and many of them are, well, boring and say the same old thing over and over again. This one doesn't. This book hits some great truths about modern parenting today. The Bruners definitely don't beat around the bush! You want to win this book!
Now, if you want to enter more than once you can 1) Tweet about my giveaway on Twitter or 2) Write a post about it on your blog and link back to me and 3) Leave me a comment for each of these actions so you can be entered to win each time. Just let me know if and which of these you did.
This giveaway will run until Saturday night,after all the craziness is done with. I'll announce the winners Sunday afternoon.
Remember, I have FIVE books to give away!
What are you waiting for? Start leaving some comments!
