{"product_id":"how-not-to-totally-put-your-children-off-god-a-conversation-on-christian-parenting-between-a-father-and-his-sons-paperback","title":"How Not to Totally Put Your Children Off God: A Conversation on Christian Parenting Between a Father and His Sons - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward Worsley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParenting can be the best or worst of times. It can be a role we love best or one that causes great insecurity. There is no formal training for parenthood. There are no clear benchmarks of success and yet it demands all our resources, skills and attention. Parenting has no blueprint. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is the merging of the author's deep convictions of parenting with examples of both \"When it worked\" and \"When it did not work\". He has also elicited the help of his sons to write their perspectives on how their experiences and memories connect (or differ from) his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter has two sections. Section A contains reflections on habits that seemed to work in passing on faith. Section B then reflects on the same habit but from a more critical perspective. \u003cbr\u003eThese five chapters come from the author's experiences as a dad, as a Christian leader and as a theologian. The first section in each chapter marks those habits that he believes in passionately. They are the 'Do's', those habits formed in parenting for faith. They emerged in the business of parenting and have become clearer over life. The second section notes when parenting seemed to go wrong. These are the nightmares that skulk around the edges of a parent's consciousness, the failures, when high hopes are not realised. However it could be that in these 'cock ups' in being a parent are when the actual parenting for faith is really carried out. That at least is the comment made by the three sons commenting on the script.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParenting can be the best or worst of times. There is no formal training for parenthood and no clear benchmarks, and yet it demands all our resources, skills, and attention. Parenting has no blueprint. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book grew out of Howard Worsley's experiences as a father, Christian leader, and theologian. It equally addresses examples of \"when it worked\" and \"when it did not work\". The author has also enlisted the help of his three sons to provide their perspectives on how their experiences and memories connect to (or differ from) his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Worsley ============== \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Worsley is the Tutor in Mission at Trinity College in Bristol where he is also the Vice Principal. He is a researcher into children's spirituality and their early perceptions, a contextual theologian, and an educationalist who publishes regularly for academic journals. He is an author of four books; including: \u003cem\u003eHow Not to Totally Put Your Children Off God.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51792854286624,"sku":"9780857219572","price":24.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ec38f6ace2977ab21a6b9bf26c83df7a.webp?v=1780709489","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-not-to-totally-put-your-children-off-god-a-conversation-on-christian-parenting-between-a-father-and-his-sons-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}