cover image Parenting with Grace: Catholic Parent's Guide to Raising Almost Perfect Kids

Parenting with Grace: Catholic Parent's Guide to Raising Almost Perfect Kids

Gregory K. Popcak. Our Sunday Visitor, $12.95 (367pp) ISBN 978-0-87973-730-6

This book's ""uniquely Catholic"" approach to parenting combines vigorous relational advice with careful theology and plenty of good humor. (The chapter on family planning is entitled ""Is Eight Enough?""). The Popcaks guide parents through each stage of child development from infancy to adolescence, offering age-specific advice on ""parenting with grace."" They call upon natural law theology to encourage attachment parenting, co-sleeping and extended nursing through infancy, and urge parents of older children to consider home-schooling so that children always understand ""that family is the primary relationship."" Later chapters address a few Catholic-specific issues, such as stimulating children to pursue Church vocations. (Mar.)