I read my first book by PDT several months ago - The Age of Opportunity - and found his writing to be permeated with a similar posture to your description of him as "a sensitive, careful, wise presence trying to write graciously and build grace into people's lives." Although I started reading that book as a teacher seeking to hone his classroom management, I quickly donned my parent hat too and have been incorporating his principles and wisdom into the parenting of my own children.
I realised just the other day that I do in fact own another PDT book, "Dangerous Calling", though I may not have read it, or else if I did it was many years ago.
I read my first book by PDT several months ago - The Age of Opportunity - and found his writing to be permeated with a similar posture to your description of him as "a sensitive, careful, wise presence trying to write graciously and build grace into people's lives." Although I started reading that book as a teacher seeking to hone his classroom management, I quickly donned my parent hat too and have been incorporating his principles and wisdom into the parenting of my own children.
I realised just the other day that I do in fact own another PDT book, "Dangerous Calling", though I may not have read it, or else if I did it was many years ago.