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Books: Parenting
Cartese, Saundra. The Souls of Our Children: Lessons of Love and Guidance. San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco, 1997.
Addresses the spiritual aspects of childrearing through topics such as motherhood, fatherhood, birth, sibling relationships, discipline, partnership and single parenting.
Catalfo, Phil, Alan Reder and Stephanie Hamilton. The Whole Parenting Guide: Strategies, Resources, and Inspiring Stories for Holestic Parenting and Family Living. New York, NY: Broadway Books, 1999.
This book approaches parenting wholestically with discussions on alternate schools, homeschooling, volunteering, and responsible consumption as well as guidance in fostering family values, nutrition, play, creativity, and spirituality.
Elkind, David. Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1999.
Today's family is under enormous stress – needs of harried children sacrificed to the needs of harried parents, childhood innocence supplanted by the illusion of childhood competence, parental intuition traded in for mechanical reliance on technique – and as a result the author contends it fails to meet the needs of children and the needs of parents.
Fitzpatrick, Jean Grasso. Small Wonder. New York, NY: Penguin, 1995.
Reminds parents that meaningful responses grow out of everyday family situations. Teaches parents to listen effectively, use appropriate language, and draw on religious tradition to help children grow into compassionate adults.
Fuch-Kreimer, Nancy. Parenting as a Spiritual Journey. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998.
Explores the transformative spiritual adventure of bringing up children with insights from every day moments as well as rituals, prayers and inspiring passages from Jewish and other faith traditions.
Martin, April. Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families. New York, NY: HarperPerennial 1993.
A sensitive, thorough look at the many issues involved in forming a lesbian or gay family by combining the author's experience and professional perspective and the first-person stories of gay and lesbian families.
Morriss, Makanah and David MacPherson, Roberta and Chris Nelson. The Parent Trilogy: Three Programs for UU Parents and Other Adults ( Being A UUParent, Parents As Resident Theologians, Parents As Social Justice Educators). Boston, MA: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1998.
Three timeless, favorite Unitarian Universalist curricula in one volume.
Reddy, Maureen. Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting and Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
The author explores her personal experiences as a white mother of biracial children and the forces of racism at work in our society. She moves from memoir to race theory, to interviews with friends, to exploration of a broad cultural context. |
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