Don't Let Your Bad Habits Climb Into Your Kids

Don’t Let Your Bad Habits Climb into Your Kids is a deeply biblical and practical parenting book that helps parents recognise how repeated behaviours, emotional patterns and family habits can quietly become their children’s normal.

With honesty, compassion and clear guidance, Lionel van der Merwe explores how anger, criticism, withdrawal, secrecy, digital distraction, broken promises and unhealthy coping patterns affect the atmosphere of the home. The book also provides a hopeful path forward through repentance, repair, emotional intelligence, better listening, healthy family rhythms and authentic faith.

This is not a book about blaming parents or demanding perfection. It is a call to responsibility, healing and generational change—helping parents become the turning point their families need.