God at the Kitchen Table: Teaching Your Religious and Moral Beliefs to Your Children - Softcover

Cooper, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609809180 ISBN 13: 9780609809181

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2002

Synopsis

Provides a sensible, nondenominational handbook to help parents raise spiritually aware, morally responsible children, with or without formal religious instruction, offer practical advice, projects, and resources to assist in teaching essential virtues and deal with complicated religious issues and concepts. Original. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Whatever your denomination, whether you practice religion formally or not, you know a strong moral compass and spiritual awareness are vital to your children’s happiness and well-being now and in the future. Even if you take your children to church or temple or drop them off at Sunday school, they will bring their big questions home, and it’s hard to find time and answers to address them properly in our hectic lives. In God at the Kitchen Table, Scott Cooper offers the guidance and resources you need to bring moral mentoring and God-consciousness into your home life.

You’ll learn how to use family time to teach virtues and discuss religious matters; how to find inspiration and material in books, movies, and online; and how to draw the family together to pray or to do service for others. Cooper offers ideas for fun and enlightening family outings, sample scripts for bringing up thorny issues, and insights from his own experience in raising three children and imparting beliefs in the natural course of life. His book will help you deal with problems that may come up, such as:

* How to help your child trust in God in a world where bad things happen
* How to reconcile different religious backgrounds and faiths—yours, your spouse’s, and others’
* How to sort out your own beliefs and values and pass them on to your children even though you sometimes have doubts yourself
* How to make religious teaching appeal to your children—like good food rather than pious medicine
* How to explain conflicts between religion and science
* How to teach about God if you don’t go to church

About the Author

SCOTT COOPER is the author of Sticks and Stones: 7 Ways Your Child Can Deal with Teasing, Conflict, and Other Hard Times. He has several years of experience working with youth, including teaching, coaching, and serving on education and drug-prevention boards. He lives in northern California with his wife and three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0609809180
• ISBN 13: 9780609809181
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240