I am not a safe house. But I knew that, and that's why I felt compelled to explore this book. When my son became a "threenager" seemingly overnight, I stopped being a safe house. I started parenting out of fear and survival. I started reacting. I started punishing instead of disciplining. Or maybe, maybe this is how I've always been and it is just surfacing more with each challenge. In any case, I now have three sons three and under, and I am terrified....not of just having children who misbehave, but of having children who are resentful of me and of God. Joshua Straub, PhD, and author of this book is a Dad of two young children. That is to say, he's in the trenches with us. He also works with the American Association of Counselors, so he has a lot of helpful skills to offer every reader. There are three parts to the book. Part one outlines why emotional safety is necessary. It requires the reader to ...