DISCOVER HOW TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN WITH PEACE, JOY, AND CONFIDENCE. By SANDRA MCCOLLOM I’m convinced that parenting is the toughest job on the planet, but also the most rewarding. Over the years I have discovered that there are basically two ways to parent: in our own strength or by God’s grace. I’ve tried both and found the difference between the two to be simply amazing! I spent the first nine years of my twin girls’ lives pilling on the rules to produce good girls. Somehow, I felt safe with rules, but I went so overboard with them that they ended up first frustrating all of us! Despite everything I was doing, I was a very insecure parent. I had a lot of fear that I wasn’t going to cover all the parenting bases and my kids would grow up and turn out bad. Instead of putting my trust in God and leaning on His grace to raise them the right way, I was putting my trust in my methods of parenting. I didn’t trust truly understand grace until about two years ago, and b...