"Shaping Your Family's Future will be internalized into parents' hearts, reappear in how they do family together, redirect how they go about parenting, and renew how they relate in loving relationships"
—David Augsburger
Professor of Pastoral
Counseling & Care
Fuller Theological Seminary
The Book
What premarital counseling does for engaged couples, Shaping Your Family's Future does for parents.
Parents may dream of miraculously gaining parenting know-how the moment their first child is born, or they may wish for an all-in-one how-to book with ready answers. But, life and parenting aren't that simple.
Although nothing can make parenting easy, Shaping Your Family's Future helps mothers and fathers discover the choices they have as parents.
Written by Carla Barnhill, author of numerous books and articles on parenting and family, Shaping Your Family's Future incorporates family systems concepts with a faith-based perspective. The book helps parents look at their families of origin through the lens of their faith, self, marriage, family and community.
Shaping Your Family's Future encourages the development of healthy parents. In turn, parents can nurture their children and intentionally create family patterns and relationships that offer wholeness and hope for generations to come. Shaping Your Family's Future can be effectively used with groups of parents. A leader's guide is available.
Shaping Your Family's Future is published by Philhaven, a not-for-profit, Mennonite Church USA related behavioral health organization serving South Central Pennsylvania. Click here for more information about Philhaven.
The SYFF resource is available in two complementary formats:
SYFF: $19.95
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sample chapter.
SYFF Leader's Guide: $24.95
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sample chapter.
