Unison Parenting Author Interview & Giveaway!

About the Book

Book: Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice

Author: Cecil Taylor

Genre: Parenting/Family, more specifically Christian Parenting

Release date: September 17, 2024

Singing in unison is when all voices sing the same note, at the same time, to emphasize the text. Similarly, families need to parent in unison to emphasize the message they want to send to their children.

Cecil Taylor uses his personal parenting experience, and those of the families he’s taught and ministered to over decades, to create unique foundational strategies for unison parenting within a Christian context. Learn how to stay on the same page throughout the trials of parenting, provide children with a solid faith foundation, and balance loving nature with firm boundaries to create a warm, stable environment where the child and parent can eventually collaborate to bring the child to full, responsible adulthood.

Whether in a traditional or nontraditional family structure, Unison Parenting leads parents through the ages and stages of childhood into mature adulthood. Additionally, Cecil lays out parenting fundamentals to manage your child’s growing need for independence during their teen years, while gradually building trust through incremental decision-making.

 

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About the Author

With more than 30 years’ experience as an adult Sunday School teacher and as many in youth ministry, Cecil Taylor has impacted lives in local churches throughout his adult life. He founded Cecil Taylor Ministries to broaden that impact, teaching Christians to live a 7-day practical faith through books, video studies, and speaking engagements. His ministry is cross-denominational, focused on the common struggle Christians face in putting their faith into practice and applying scripture and faith principles to life situations.

Cecil has written three previous books, all of which have been awarded across international, national, and regional contests. For each book, Cecil has created a study guide, a video study, and downloadable free leader guides.

More from Cecil

Would you like to know the surefire, guaranteed way to get your teen to open up and talk to you? You’ll find it in my new book, Unison Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Christian Parenthood with One Voice.

Unison Parenting is the culmination of my fifteen years leading parenting classes in my church, my thirty years of youth ministry, and my raising of three children (one adopted) to adulthood. I taught and tested the parenting advice with seven hundred families that attended my classes, so I am convinced the structure and tips you’ll find in the book are well-proven.

One of those tips is how to get your teen to talk to you. I have never had anyone return to me to say that the technique doesn’t work; in fact, they laughingly complain that the technique works too well, and they can’t get their teen to stop talking!

An overarching theme of the book is, of course, getting and staying in unison as parents, but not only as parents – as a family. Another way to put it is a spirit of collaboration. You begin building this collaboration when the children are young, and as they grow, you expand the collaboration to partner with them on the common goal of helping them become mature adults who make good decisions.

I can tell you from experience that the collaborating spirit of such a family continues into adulthood, fostering solid on-going relationships and a desire for family community, even across distance.

This is not to say that my wife and I were perfect, nor that our children were perfect. We all made regrettable mistakes along the way. Our learnings, plus the positive and negative experiences of families I encountered over decades, will help you avoid pitfalls as you create a unison atmosphere among parenting partners and with your children.

Author Interview

  • How has your life experience helped in your writing journey?

I’ve said before that I believe God has used every ounce of my life to inform my writing. But to get more granular, I have many life stories to share in my books, whether they emerge from parenting, from setbacks, from interesting encounters with the Holy Spirit, and so forth. People like stories and learn better when they hear a story. I think I do a good job of selecting my personal stories that fit with the point I’m trying to make.

  • Where do you find your greatest inspiration?

As a Christian writer, I credit the Holy Spirit with my greatest inspirations. Through a relationship and through listening and paying attention as best as I can, I get plenty of ideas, whether for blog posts, articles, books, or videos. I hope that I am a vessel for what the Spirit wants to teach.

  • What is your favorite genre of books? Why?

I read non-fiction almost exclusively. I used to read fiction, most recently when my daughter pulled me into YA fiction for a while so we could read together. But on my own, I prefer history or religion or sports non-fiction. I’m not sure why I prefer it, although I like books where I can get in and out. I often don’t have long periods to read, so I want to read a bit, move on, and come back. With fiction, you have to enter a world and stay in it.

  • What do you need in your writing space to help you stay focused?

This is a good question because I tend to want things orderly. It may not be an orderly scene, but I’ll know where everything is. So if things are off in the environment, I have to fix them before I can focus.

I’ll want my supporting materials nearby and for unrelated things to be put away. I may put on some “comfort” music if I’m feeling stressed, but I work better with quiet if I’m in the flow. If I really become focused, I don’t notice what time it is. But I can only write for two or three hours at high intensity before I need a break or must even stop for the day. For me, writing is pouring out my soul, so it’s an exhausting effort.

  • How do you relax after a long day of writing?

With that kind of intensity, I might take a nap, but only if I’m not too keyed up. It usually helps to do something completely different, whether it’s work-related or an amusement.

My best distraction comes during football season, when I can manage my fantasy football teams and escape reality. My wife says she just knows fantasy football keeps me sane, so she approves.

Blog Stops

Lots of Helpers, October 23

Simple Harvest Reads, October 24 (Author Interview)

Texas Book-aholic, October 24

Artistic Nobody, October 25 (Author Interview)

Guild Master, October 26 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, October 27

Fiction Book Lover, October 28 (Author Interview)

Vicky Sluiter, October 29 (Author Interview)

A Modern Day Fairy Tale, October 30 (Author Interview)

Locks, Hooks and Books, October 30

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, October 31

Library Lady’s Kid Lit, November 1 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, November 2

Blossoms and Blessings, November 3 (Author Interview)

A Reader’s Brain, November 4 (Author Interview)

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, November 5 (Author Interview)

Giveaway

To celebrate his tour, Cecil is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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