Children Come First
Children Come First

Author: Howard H. Irving

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2011-01-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 155488845X

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For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children from the bitter legacy of legal wrangling and winner-takes-all custody battles. Now, calling on his vast experience mediating more than 2,000 cases, Irving has written Children Come First directly for couples contemplating or undergoing divorce. In this book the author takes a tripartite approach that points out: the dangers of the adversarial approach to divorce, the benefits of divorce mediation, and how parents can put their children first during and after their divorce. Children Come First is written in a reader-friendly style with case studies, charts, and diagrams, as well as illustrations from the author's renowned practice. Ultimately, this book takes parents through the process of building a shared parenting plan that places their children's interests uppermost while still addressing the parents' unique situations and needs.

Children, Come to Me
Children, Come to Me

Author: Pat Lamb

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1617771996

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How can we encourage children to grow in their relationship with God? In this weekly lesson guide, Pat Lamb gives a clear outline for sharing godly principles to live by. Questions are used to stimulate discussion, and simple objects help the children remember what they learned. Perfect for Sunday school teachers, pastors, parents, grandparents, those who homeschool, and expectant parents, Children, Come to Me uses fun object lessons to portray positive messages for children. This guide is practical and easily accessible, laying out a year's worth of weekly lessons in ideas that make teaching easy. These lessons delve into concerns that are real to children and help them draw meaningful conclusions to carry with them into adulthood. Engage the children in your life with exercises that clearly demonstrate how they can live in a way pleasing to God.

Let the Children Come
Let the Children Come

Author: Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1506454585

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Explore what faithful parenting might look like today In Let the Children Come, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the question, What does faithful parenting look like today? As she addresses this query, she updates outmoded and distorted assumptions about and conceptions of children in popular US culture. She also shows important insights and contributions religious traditions and communities, Christianity in particular, make as we examine how to regard and treat children well. Miller-McLemore draws on historical and contemporary understandings of Christianity, psychology, and feminism to push back against negative trends, such as the narcissistic use of children for adult benefit, the market use of children to sell products, and the failure to give children meaningful roles in the domestic work of the family and the life of wider society. Miller-McLemore views children as full participants in families and religious communities and as human beings deserving of greater respect and understanding than people typically grant them. In particular, the book rethinks five ways adults have viewed (and misperceived) children--as victims, sinful, gifts, work (the labor of love), and agents. Reimagining children, she proposes, will lead to a renewed conception of the care of children as a religious practice.