BOOK: Raising Kids Who Care, About Themselves* About Their World* About Each Other
Author: Kathleen O’Connell Chesto, Liguori Lifespan Publishers,2003
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- Revised and updated to face the challenges of a post 9/11 world marked by violence.
- Discusses specific situations that parents will recognize.
- A practical approach to growing moral character in children.
- Activities and discussion starters relating to the issues of being home alone, cheating, smoking, and sex, make this BOOK: a valuable resource.
BOOK: Keepers of the Light, A Parents’ Guide to Passing on Your Faith
Author: Phyllis Calvey Liguori Lifespan, 2000
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- "Weaves the imagination and insight of personal experience with the fundamental faith of the Catholic Church to create a tapestry of family faith renewal...anecdotes, discussion-starters..."
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BOOK: Raising Faith Filled Kids
Author: Tom McGrath
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What does it mean to be a spiritual parent or to have a spiritual family? It's not a mystery, but simply a matter of being mindful of the spiritual life your family already experiences. Parents are on a spiritual path from the moment their child is born. Children are brimming with sacred mystery and joy. Raising Faith-Filled Kids offers a generous collection of easy tips and tools to help parents realize this spiritual path and inspire virtue, discipline, and hope in their families. Writing from personal experience and drawing from the experiences of others, Tom McGrath shows fellow parents how to bring faith into everyday family life through familiar objects and regular routines. With twenty-three "Taking Action Tips," this action-oriented BOOK: will help parents encourage faith in their children's lives, from infancy through the teenage years.
BOOK: Weaving Faith and Family: When You’re Hanging on by a Thread
Author: Eileen Marx
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- Prayers and reflection questions with every chapter
- Provides simple steps to help children understand that family life and spiritual life can be one and the same.
BOOK: Keepers of the Light: A Parents’ guide to Passing on your Faith
Author: Phyllis Calvey
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- Creative strategies for praying with children from infancy through high school.
- Five different age levels are treated in separate chapters.
- Concrete holistic strategies that are sensitive to the physical, psychological and spiritual development of children.
BOOK: Raising a Good Kid (chances are you’re doing just fine)
Author: John F. Smith
Summary:Despite all your worries, chances are you're doing just fine raising a good kid. Not a "how-to" or "what you're doing wrong" BOOK:, but rather a reassuring, confidence-builder which addresses the issues parents are most concerned about - character, achievement, school, sexuality, and faith. 128 pages
BOOK: Raising Kids Who will Make A Difference: Helping Your Family live with Integrity, Value Simplicity and Care for Others Author: Susan Vogt
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Unique and thoughtful guide to raising socially conscious children.
Inspire, equip, and comfort parents in the awesome task of raising kids who will make positive contributions to the world.
Offers successful parenting strategies and straightforward discussions on important issues like sexuality, substance abuse, materialism, racism, global awareness, and death.
Each chapter concludes with reflection activities to stimulate discussion for the whole family.
BOOK: Sharing the Faith With Your Child, Birth to Six A HandBOOK: for Catholic Parents Author: Phyllis Chandler & Joan Burney, 1984Summary:
BOOK: Sharing the Faith With Your Child: From Age Seven to Fourteen : A HandBOOK: for Catholic Parents
Author: Mary Jo Pedersen and Joan Burney
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Explains children’s development between the ages of 7 – 14 and how it affects faith development.
Practical advice and encouragement to help you meet the challenges of sharing your faith.
Sections on special considerations in sharing faith including discipline, sexuality, loss and grief, and the media.
BOOK: The Power of Discernment: Helping Your Teen Hear God’s Voice Within
Author: Maggie Pike, St. Mary’s Press, 2003
Summary:
- This BOOK: shows that it really is possible to make such a lofty principle as discernment understandable, practical, and useful to a ten-year-old, a fifteen-year-old, a young person on the brink of adulthood.
- Offers a method of spiritual discernment for dealing with issues such as peer pressure, friends, sexuality, change, and family well-being.
- A method of parenting centered in God.
