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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 – Cecil Taylor

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 Taylor

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 – Cecil Taylor

Who would you say is the ideal reader of this book, and why?

Broadly, I believe any parent would benefit from Unison Parenting. There is some nugget or tidbit that will help their family, if only my proven method for getting your teen to talk to you (worth the price on its own!).

More narrowly, a lot of parents know something is wrong in the way they are raising their children but may not be able to pinpoint it. Unison Parenting suggests that you start by looking at how you and your parenting partners strategize, communicate, and execute. The book also proposes methods that will bring your child to maturity with the resilience to handle life’s challenges. I most hope to reach those parents that know something is off and are willing to try something different.

What in your background brought you to the writing of this book?

I worked with youth in my church for thirty years and witnessed the results of a lot of parenting styles. I understand teens very well. Along the way, I got the idea to teach parenting classes in my church, which I did for seven hundred families over fifteen years. This was an opportunity to suggest ideas and receive feedback on how they worked, which has given me a lot of confidence to put those ideas in a book.

My wife and I also raised three children, one adopted, to adulthood. We were far from perfect, but we did a lot of things right and learned from the mistakes, so those experiences inform this book as well.

If readers have just one take-away from this book, what do you want it to be?

I want readers to realize that they can collaborate well with their parenting partners. A counselor friend was skeptical when I started writing the book, saying that from her experience, it’s nearly impossible to get parents onto the same page. I don’t believe that. It takes work, communication, and humility, but it can be done in most cases. There are always exceptions, unfortunately, but I want parents to start from a place of possibility and hope.

When you are not writing, what other hats do you wear? What do you do for fun?

First, I operate Cecil Taylor Ministries, so I’m not only a writer. I produce videos, I speak and give seminars, and I market and administer the ministry. With my entrepreneurial background, I’m used to switching hats frequently. 

I have always been very active in my church; as I’m writing this, I’m preparing to work a service project this evening. For fun, I like to garden, follow and attend sporting events, play fantasy football, collect pins, and play mini-golf when I can get the chance. I would love to own and operate a mini-golf amusement someday, but I don’t know if that’s in the Lord’s plans as much as in mine.

Young Author’s Days were an important part of my work as a school librarian. What advice would you give to a child or teen who wants to be a writer?

I love this question, and I applaud your work as a school librarian. I would say to become a writer, write! Write a bit of everything: short fictional stories, poems, news articles, accounts of sporting events, blogs, how-to articles, non-fiction, persuasive pieces, and so forth. Learn what each style requires and find which ones fit you best. To write a bit of everything, it helps to read a bit of everything, of course.

Thank you for joining us today.

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Giveaway

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

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