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.

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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Interview

Is your book part of a series?

That was not my original intent, but since I wrote the book, I have thought of three possible parenting sequels. And I’ll bet I think of more.

A couple of sequels have to do with my own evolution as a parent. I am now a parent to adult children, which has its own unique, new parenting scenarios that can disrupt unity with your partner. As examples, “Do we let them live with us?” or “Do we give them money?” I know a lot of people who could use such a book!

What do you wish you knew before you started writing?

I didn’t realize all the overhead that comes with writing a book. You think you just type in your book content, and that’s it. But you are really a book creator, not a writer. You have to think about pictures, diagrams, style, layout, cover art, cover text, editing, the publishing process, lining up people to pre-review the book, building launch teams, creating and updating your website, and marketing, marketing, marketing. It’s a very involved process. Writing the words feels like the smallest part, I would say.

If you could change something with your writing career, what would it be? 

It sounds crazy, but I have about ten books in my head, and I wish I could get them out of my head and onto paper faster. People think I write pretty quickly because I have published four books (plus accompanying study guides and video studies) in two years. I would like to go a lot faster if I could. But, the overhead I mentioned earlier.

If you had a free day, what would you do? 

Interestingly, I had a free day set up a few weeks ago, but it got disrupted by an urgent request. I was going to spend the morning at my favorite mini-golf place, because I love mini-golf, then eat a lunch that included a milkshake. But after that, I would have just gone back to work, because it’s in my nature to work. I even turn a relaxing thing like gardening into work.

My wife predicted that my answer would be, “Work, the same as I do every day.” (I do take breaks, and she benefits from having me work from home).

Tell us something unique about yourself.

I am confident that I am the only person in the world that has contributed to Chicken Soup for the Soul, holds three U.S. patents, holds a Guinness Book world record, won a national award for broadcasting women’s sports, and won a local hip-hop dance competition for dads. I am, indeed, the Renaissance Man.