Strengthening Your Family: A Catholic Approach to Holiness at Home

Strengthening Your Family: A Catholic Approach to Holiness at Home Review

How to Make Your Family Holy

Turn on any sitcom, news hour, reality TV show, or shock jock on the radio and modern family life is usually the butt of every joke - bumbling dads, overworked moms, sarcastic kids, shallow relationships, and misdirected priorities.

Add in the real life issues of money, time, technology, and peer pressure and it's no wonder families are feeling under attack.

The question is, how can we build a spiritual stronghold that can withstand the onslaught?

Author, speaker, and experienced mother of four, Marge Fenelon offers simple, practical ways to foster a holy atmosphere in your home from which everything else can flow.

Discover how to set priorities, form ideals, and keep your family grounded with a workable spiritual schedule. Learn to live in the world, but not of the world as you help your children develop the skills and attitudes that will serve them well, no matter what the challenge.

"Strengthening Your Family presents a treasure trove of timeless truths of the Catholic Church that provide help, hope, and inspiration even in the most challenging of parenting situations." Teresa Tomeo, Syndicated Catholic Talk Show Host

"Marge gets it right as she relates how focusing on encouraging and expecting growth in virtue and character will lead to the only real, true, ultimate goal holiness of life."
From the Foreword by Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York

Bringing the Gospel Home: Witnessing to Family Members, Close Friends, and Others Who Know You Well

Bringing the Gospel Home: Witnessing to Family Members, Close Friends, and Others Who Know You Well Review

Jesus is off limits for a lot of families and friends—or at least that’s how it appears sometimes. Why does sharing the good news with a stranger often feel less frightening than telling those you love most?

For the vast majority of Christians, evangelism does not come naturally. We find ourselves sounding like someone we’re not or beating ourselves up for not being bold enough, smart enough, or quick enough. 

Randy Newman understands the complexity and consequences of this all-important task. As a messianic Jew who has led several family members to Christ, he gives insights from the Scriptures, stories of others who have learned some lessons along the way, and specific steps you can take to make progress in engaging with others.

Bringing the Gospel Home will help any Christian seeking to guide loved ones into the family of God.

Purging Your House, Pruning Your Family Tree: How to rid your home and family of demonic influence and generational oppression

Purging Your House, Pruning Your Family Tree: How to rid your home and family of demonic influence and generational oppression Review

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Do the following questions express what you have felt—or asked—in the past?

• Does a weeping willow describe your family tree?
• Do you secretly wish you had been born to a different family?
• Did you pick up some bad DNA from someone in your lineage?
• Would you like to put on a new set of genes and make a new you? 
• Is there a warfare going on that you won’t talk about?
• What are the keys to a happy home and marriage?

 

If so, keep reading! There are two important ways for you to alter your present personal situations and prepare for a great emotional and spiritual future—by purging your house and pruning your family tree. Purging your house involves removing spiritual, emotional, and mental hindrances from three houses: spiritual, physical, and emotional. The author teaches readers the 3-step process of removing the leprosy (laying aside the weights or sins), rebuilding a fresh foundation (replacing old thoughts with new thoughts), and restoring the house (new friends, relations, directions). Pruning your family tree involves a process called redemptive alteration, which positively impacts your future when the Word of God defeats the sin habits and overcomes the carnal nature through regeneration. The author reveals the dangers that can harm or destroy our family are the same dangers that destroy nature’s trees—storms that place pressure on the branches, drought the destroys the leaves, cold weather that destroys the fruit, and floods that uproot the entire tree.  He teaches us how to evict the enemy by quoting Scripture, experiencing the anointing, rebuking the devil, and having strong faith.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Review

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

No Place Like Home (Cisco Family)

No Place Like Home (Cisco Family) Review

Join beloved bestselling author Fern Michaels in her first holiday novel, a spirited, touching tale of three dynamic siblings who will do anything to bring their grandmother home for Christmas.  The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father’s behavior. He seems to care more about his gold-digging fiancée than he does about his own son and daughters. Even worse, Dad put their spunky grandmother—head of the family candy company—in a nursing home against her will. Setting out to spring Granny Cisco, college seniors Sara, Hannah, and Sam soon prove that trouble comes in threes. Apparently, so does love.… As the triplets get their grandmother the medical care that will make her independent again, all three find unexpected romance. If everything goes according to plan, there’s going to be quite a crowd at Granny’s house come Christmas—and more proof than ever that there’s no place like home for the holidays. 

My Heart's at Home: Becoming the Intentional Mom Your Family Needs

My Heart's at Home: Becoming the Intentional Mom Your Family Needs Review

Founder and Executive Director of Hearts at Home Jill Savage explores the important role “home” plays in a family’s journey. With her personable, humorous style, Jill shares from her experience as a mother of five and from conversations with many other moms to offer practical ideas and motivation to create a home that is a

• safe place for a functional family to blossom
• community center that offers hospitality and compassion
• church where prayer and Scripture guide all members
• museum filled with a family’s history, stories, and heritage
• school with lessons of virtue, integrity, and ethics

This anchor book for Hearts at Home will extend beyond this valuable ministry to encourage all women to build the heart of their home on biblical principles and to raise a family that is strong, loving, and firmly standing on a foundation of faith.

Home, School, and Community Relations

Home, School, and Community Relations Review

This is the most interesting, comprehensive, and practical educator resource available today for working with families. Designed for students in community colleges and four-year programs and teachers/administrators who work with children of all ages. HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS is a core course in an Early Childhood Education curriculum. Sometimes called Child, Family, and Community, the course includes coverage of: children's learning and behavior viewpoints, and how they are affected by family members of the immediate and larger community; evolution of the role played by home, school, and community on the child's life; the demographics and the diverse nature of families in the U.S. today; features of the community; and parent involvement. Annual enrollments in the course and current Cengage market share. Include both total enrollment and percentage of market targeted to determine true potential market share. (Include source of estimate.) Over 120,000 students enroll in early childhood education annually. The early childhood education two-year market size consists of approximately 80,000 students obtaining an AA degree or AS degree in ECE from one of the 687 early childhood education programs. ECE four-year programs consist of approximately 40,000 students obtaining a bachelor degree from one of the 884 four-year programs. Due to the increasing demands for quality child care providers, enrollments for early childhood education continue to increase.

Organize Now! 12 Month Home & Activity Planner

Organize Now! 12 Month Home & Activity Planner Review

Organize Now! 12 Month Home & Activity Planner will help readers keep track of their daily activities while setting and reaching organizing goals each month, because everyone’s life could use a little more organization. The non-year-specific calendar is organized by month, and at the beginning of each month readers will find an open calendar month template they can fill in with dates and appointments. There’s also the opportunity to set organizing goals for the month and record the due dates for all of the month’s bills. Then there will be space to write to-do lists and appointments for each day of the month.

All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House

All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House Review

With the lyrics of a Replacements song running through his head ("Look me in the eye, then tell me that I'm satisfied"), David Giffels—with his wife and infant son in tow—combs the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of the perfect house for his burgeoning family. The quest ends at the front door of a beautiful but decaying Gilded Age mansion, the once-grand former residence of a rubber-industry executive. It lacks functional plumbing and electricity, leaks rain like a cartoon shack, and is infested with all manner of wildlife. But for a young father at a coming-of-age crossroads, the challenge is precisely the allure.

All the Way Home is Giffels's funny, poignant, and confounding journey through the great adventure of restoring a crumbling house on the way to discovering what the words "grown up" and "home" really mean.

The Art and Practice of Home Visiting: Early Intervention for Children with Special Needs and Their Families

The Art and Practice of Home Visiting: Early Intervention for Children with Special Needs and Their Families Review

Home-Based Services give pre-service and in-service home visitors the tools they need to work effectively with young children and their families.

My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Review

In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own.

His father, “Syl” Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and Vichy police. They met in the mid-1950s, when he was a college student and she was his professor, and they carried on a secret romance for more than a year before marrying and having two boys. Eventually they split in a bitter divorce that was followed by decades of unhappiness as his mother coped with self-recrimination and depression while trying to raise her sons by herself, and his father spiraled into an alcoholic descent that destroyed his once meteoric career.

Based on extensive interviews and documentary research as well as his own personal recollections and insights, My Long Trip Home is a reporter’s search for the factual and emotional truth about a complicated and compelling family, a successful adult’s exploration of how he rose from a turbulent childhood to a groundbreaking career, and, ultimately, a son’s haunting meditation on the nature of love, loss, identity, and forgiveness.

How To Decorate Your Home On A Budget

How To Decorate Your Home On A Budget Review

For anybody, decorating on a budget can be a challenge, but it also can be very rewarding. It will also teach you how to showcase your home. In this book, we will provide great ideas and tips for decorating various rooms within your home without
going over budget.

Leaving Home (Family Living in Pastoral Perspective)

Leaving Home (Family Living in Pastoral Perspective) Review

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In this book, Herbert Anderson and Kenneth R. Mitchell demonstrate that leaving home is a significant part of forming an individual identity and a natural aspect of maturing. It is also a lifelong process, but one that is desirable and appropriate for both the one who leaves and the ones left behind. However, understanding the process requires care. This book helps clarify what is at stake in the ordinary yet complex process of leaving home.

The Family Living in Pastoral Perspective series examines crucial times in family life in light of the family as a social unit. Each book addresses major changes that ordinarily occur in the life cycle of a family. Each volume takes into account family system theory and social and economic factors that affect the family.

First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting out a Single-Family Home

First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting out a Single-Family Home Review

Landlording 101 for new rental property owners who are firsttime landlords as a result of an inheritance, divorce, move to a new house, buying a duplex and renting out the extra unit, purchase for a family member (elderly parent or college student child), or buying a rental property house as an investment. Many of the readers are not only firsttimers, but they are accidental landlords who took on the task because they inherited a property or couldn’t sell their house at a decent price, so are renting it out. The book is for the millions of people who rent out single family homes and condos (not multiunit apartment buildings), while typically balancing a day job with landlord responsibilities. The audience is novice landlords who need basic business and legal advice on renting out and managing rental properties—different from landlords who consider themselves real estate investors.

Absolutely Organize Your Family: Simple Solutions to Control Clutter, Schedules & Spaces

Absolutely Organize Your Family: Simple Solutions to Control Clutter, Schedules & Spaces Review

Struggle Less and Savor More

Managing a family is no easy task. There are school projects to supervise, a constant deluge of laundry and toys to deal with, and after-school activities to drive to every night. It makes you wish you had an instruction manual to help you keep it all together—well, now you do!

Absolutely Organize Your Family is full of practical and effective solutions for all of your family’s organizational challenges. Debbie Lillard, professional organizer, mother of three and author of the popular book Absolutely Organized, offers all new “Absolutes of Organizing Your Family” tips to help you gain and maintain order in three key areas of your family life: Schedules, belongings and spaces. Inside you’ll find:

• Solutions for overcrowded and out-of-control schedules

• Advice on establishing morning, evening, and bedtime routines

• Strategies for organizing toys, collections, artwork, photographs, and more

• Ways to keep closets and dressers in order even in the midst of growth spurts

• Help for your child’s schoolbag, desk, and locker

• Methods of keeping bedrooms organized

• Ideas for creating a homework area to improve study habits.

Spend less time struggling to keep up and more time savoring everyday moments with your family. Start your family’s organizational makeover today.

Take Me Home: Protecting America's Vulnerable Children and Families

Take Me Home: Protecting America's Vulnerable Children and Families Review

There is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this expertly researched, passionately written book. No state has passed the federally mandated Child and Family Service Review; two-thirds of the state systems have faced class-action lawsuits demanding change; and most tellingly, well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home. The field of child welfare has lost its way and is neglecting its fundamental responsibility to the most vulnerable children and families in America.

The family stories Berrick weaves throughout the chapters provide a vivid backdrop for her statistics. Amanda, raised in foster care, began having children of her own while still a teen and lost them to the system when she became addicted to drugs. Tracy, brought up by her schizophrenic single mother, gave birth to the first of eight children at age fourteen and saw them all shuffled through foster care as she dealt drugs and went to prison. Both they and the other individuals that Berrick features spent years without adequate support from social workers or the government before finally achieving a healthier life; many people never do. But despite the clear crisis in child welfare, most calls for reform have focused on unproven prevention methods, not on improving the situation for those already caught in the system. Berrick argues that real child welfare reform will only occur when the centerpiece of child welfare - reunification, permanency, and foster care - is reaffirmed.

Take Me Home reminds us that children need long-term caregivers who can help them develop and thrive. When troubled parents can't change enough to permit reunification, alternative permanency options must be pursued. And no reform will matter for the hundreds of thousands of children entering foster care each year in America unless their experience of out-of-home care is considerably better than the one many now experience. Take Me Home offers prescriptions for policy change and strategies for parents, social workers, and judges struggling with permanency decisions. Readers will come away reinvigorated in their thinking about how to get children to the homes they need.