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Title: Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference: Helping Your Family Live With Integrity, Value Simplicity, and Care for Others by Susan V. Vogt ISBN: 0-8294-1792-3 Publisher: Loyola Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference
Comment: This is a surprising book! I usually don't like books that tell you how to raise your kids. I end up feeling guilty about all the things I did wrong that the author did right and I hate books that give a formula for parenting perfectly.
Vogt's book does just the opposite. She acknowledges that her parenting was less than perfect and her suggestions allow for a wide variety of approaches.
Best of all the author has put together a unique book that includes her ideas and principles on twelve different topics, observations from seasoned parents and reactions from their chlidren. She also puts in resources, exercises and great stories that kept my attention throughout.
I received this book as a gift and started reading it with reluctance but it just go better and better with every page. I especially like what Vogt's own kids had to say about the way they were raised and while they resisted some of their parent's idealism they turned out ok. Their daughter who wrote some of the funniest stories in the book is now serving in the Peace Corp.
Raising Kids... would make a great book on parenting and teaching values but it would also be a great read about how generations interact and approach topics from very different perspectives. I kept reading whole sections aloud to my wife while she was trying to read her own book.
This may be the best book I have ever read on parenting and sharing values with children.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gift for grandparents to pass on
Comment: My own children are grown with children of their own but I'm still a concerned parent and grandparent and Raising Kids who will make a Difference gives me hope. So much of what I read and see on TV disturbs me these days and I tell my adult children that I think it's a lot harder to be a parent today than it was a generation ago. I think Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference can help. It combines the practicality of Dr. Spock that guided my parenting with the inspiration of spiritual leaders like Jesus and Gandhi and wraps them all up in age old values and wisdom that Vogt somehow manages to convey with a modern and accessible tone. I think ordinary parents will find they can relate to it, It's not just written with "super-parents" in mind. I felt consoled to know I did a lot of things right in my own parenting and that even my regrets are shared by other good parents.
Even though my active parenting days are over, I want to give this book to my children and the other young parents I know to help them get a good start. As Vogt says, "Start young....it's a lot easier to limit TV to an hour a day when the child is a toddler and gradually allow extensions than to announce to a preteen that the family is going to cut back on TV. If the rule has always been that everybody pitches in to clean house on Saturday, it won't meet with the resistance that some parents experience when they try to implement new policies that they picked up from a parenting class or from reading a book such as this one. If you're too late for the start young approach, approach your family gently and include everyone in the decision-making process." It makes a parent want to stretch but without guilt.
Rating: 5
Summary: Relating to diapers
Comment: When I first started reading this book I only intended to spend a few minutes so I thought I'd start with the reactions of Susan Vogt's children to the chapters. Two hours later I was still reading because I found it so engaging. I could especially relate to the chapter on Ecology since our family values simplicity and tries to walk gently on this earth. Being a modern mother I felt reassured when Vogt talked about the issue of cloth diapers. Now the author does not equate disposable diapers with immorality and cloth diapers with virtue but she does raise questions about values and how we spend our time and money. In my own case, I was committed to using cloth diapers but assumed I would use disposables when traveling for convenience. When our first child started getting diaper rash with the disposable diapers, our doctor recommended using only cloth diapers. I soon discovered that it was just as convenient traveling with cloth diapers and as a bonus it fit with my value of respecting the earth. Being part Native American, this was important to me, but even more important was the knowledge that I wasn't the only one making such a decision.
This is just one example of many practical suggestions for helping ordinary families live with integrity and according to their values that the author weaves through this book. I felt like I was listening to a good friend.
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Title: Raising Faith-Filled Kids: Ordinary Opportunities to Nurture Spirituality at Home by Tom McGrath ISBN: 0829414258 Publisher: Loyola Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Living Simply with Children : A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim theBliss of Childhood and the Joy of Parenting by Marie Sherlock ISBN: 0609809016 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What Kids Really Want that Money Can't Buy by Center for a New American Dream, Betsy Taylor ISBN: 0446529648 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Busy Family's Guide to Volunteering : Doing Good Together by Jenny Friedman ISBN: 1589040120 Publisher: Robins Lane Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Monastery Is a Minivan: 35 Stories from a Real Life by Denise Roy ISBN: 0829416870 Publisher: Loyola Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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