Imitating Mary
Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom
Author: Marge Fenelon
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In an age of much mothering advice but few admirable role models, award-winning Catholic journalist Marge Fenelon delves into ten instances—and corresponding virtues—of Mary’s life that reveal her as the ultimate example and companion for the modern mom.

Six Sacred Rules for Families
A Spirituality for the Home
Author: Tim Muldoon
Author: Sue Muldoon
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Tim and Sue Muldoon bring a wealth of experience as parents, spiritual guides, and religious educators to a practical book for parents that offers six sacred rules for integrating faith formation into everyday family life.

Yes, God!
What Ordinary Families Can Learn About Parenting from Today's Vocation Stories
Author: Susie Lloyd
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By profiling ten men and women on their journeys to the priesthood and the convent, award-winning author Susie Lloyd discovered lessons that can be used by every parent who wants to raise faithful children—children who say “yes” to God.

The Handbook for Catholic Moms
Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul
Author: Lisa M. Hendey
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Drawing from the deep tradition of the Catholic faith, Lisa Hendey, the creator of the popular CatholicMom.com website, coaches Catholic moms how to care for themselves—heart, mind, body, and soul—so that they can better love and care for their families, their neighbors, and their Church.

The Catholic Baby Name Book
Author: Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur
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With more than ten thousand names of saints and biblical figures, this first-ever guide to Catholic baby names helps expectant parents find a beautiful and creative name for their child. Each entry includes the meaning of the name, language of origin, variations in form, a capsule biography, and relevant feast days and patron saint information.

A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy
Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism
Author: Sarah A. Reinhard
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In A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy: Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism popular Catholic blogger and speaker Sarah A. Reinhard presents the first book to accompany expectant mothers from conception to baptism. This book includes weekly reflections and prayers rooted in the mysteries of the Rosary and related to the baby’s physical development.

Ready for College
Everything You Need to Know
Author: Michael Pennock
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In high school you live with your parents. In college you live with your friends. In high school a ten-page paper was a bear. In college it's a gift. The people you thought were nerds in high school are okay in college. With everything from how to say good-bye to mom and dad, to tips for getting along with a difficult roommate, Ready for College gives first-time college students what they need to succeed. Michael Pennock offers some wise warnings and advice to help students make an easy transition from high school to college. More than just the nuts and bolts, Ready for College shows adolescents that college is a time to develop a sense of self, not bound by previous ties, yet intimately connected with the love and lessons of family life. Ready for College provides a spiritual dimension, encouraging college students to develop an ongoing relationship with God through the practice of their faith. This book is a must read before first-time students move to college and register for the first semester of classes.

The Infertility Companion for Catholics
Spiritual and Practical Support for Couples
Author: Angelique Ruhi-López
Author: Carmen Santamaría
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One in every six United States couples experiences infertility but Catholic couples face additional confusion, worry, and frustration as they explore the medical options available to them. Filling a major void in Catholic resources, The Infertility Companion for Catholics is the first book to address not only the medical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of infertility, but also the particular needs of Catholic couples who desire to understand and follow Church teaching on the use of assisted reproductive technology.

10 Best Gifts for Your Teen
Raising Teens with Love and Understanding
Author: Steve Saso
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Patt and Steve Saso combine their expertise as a counselor and high school teacher with hard-knocks wisdom from their own experience as parents to offer practical, engaging and effective guidance for parents of teens. Parents and their teenage children will both reap rewards from the practical skills and positive encouragement provided by the Sasos in 10 Best Gifts for Your Teen. When parents are attentive to the "gifts"of: Respect, Receptivity, Responsibility, Recognition, Room, Reconciliation, Role-Modeling, Revelation of Self, Resolve, Release... Teens respond and mature—and families prosper.

Take Back Your Kids
Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times
Author: William Doherty
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"We may be the most child-sensitive generation of parents the world has ever known—and the most confused and insecure." But it doesn't have to be that way. We can be both sensitive and in charge. We don't have to model our family on the consumer society where our kids become "consumers of parental services" and we become the "servers" with customers who are always right. Dr. William Doherty is convinced that it is possible to be a thoroughly modern parent - who values each child's sensitivities and developmental needs - while still having high expectations for children as persons who have responsibilities to family and community. He shows you how in Take Back Your Kids a timely, yet timeless, confidence-building book that backs up fresh insights with personal experience and advice parents can rely on.

In My Mother's Closet
An Invitation to Remember
Author: Eugenia Zukerman
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In this evocative book, Eugenia Zukerman taps into the dynamic mother-daughter relationship and the special bond that belongs uniquely to mothers, daughters, sisters and girlfriends. Share laughter, tears, insights, revelations, and loving resolutions as over forty accomplished women share memories of their mothers' closets, where they tried on clothes, jewelry, and shoes—and imagined the world they would one day enter, the world of being a woman. In My Mother's Closet: An Invitation to Remember offers personal stories from Claire Bloom; Judy Collins; Carrie Fisher; Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B.; Erica Jong; Rabbi Jennifer Krause; Lesley Stahl; and many more.

God Knows Parenting Is a Wild Ride
9 Things to Hold on to
Author: Kathy Coffey
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There are dozens of books out there filled with parenting tips and techniques. But there are no easy answers to the questions parents ask. Here, however, is a book that digs deeper, that offers parents a vision of what parenting can be. Kathy Coffey acknowledges that parenting is an awesome and sometimes overwhelming task, a wild ride. But by seeking help and support from many sources, the rewards can be unlimited. Many of these important supports and resources come from outside the home, but Coffey also urges parents to look within to discover how fulfilling parenting can be. Readers will come away from this book with a renewed appreciation for parenting and a deeper respect for life lived in a family.

The Gift of Grandparenting
Author: Thea Jarvis
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Caregivers are loving, generous, and courageous, and it is important that caregivers also take time to rest their own bodies, renew their minds, and nurture their spirits. In Times of Caregiving offers caregivers a simple way to pray, a way to reconnect with God`s love and presence. Each chapter focuses on issues and emotions that trouble caregivers: fatigue, fear, uncertainty, loneliness, gratefulness, anger, crises, the need to see Christ, guilt, praying for others. Whether you are caregiver or want to share the gift and power of prayer with one who is caring for another, In Times of Caregiving offers a restorative blend of scriptural, classic, and contemporary prayers and reflections.

Parenting Your Teens with TLC
The "Time-Limits-Caring" Way to Survive Adolescence
Author: Patt Saso
Author: Steve Saso
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From the best-selling authors of 10 Best Gifts for Your Teen, here's another breath of fresh air for parents of teens. Patt and Steve Saso acknowledge that parenting teens can be complex and frightening. But they invite us to worry less and stay cool during the thunder years by focusing on time, limits, and caring, or T.L.C. You'll find help, hope, and plenty of good humor on a nearly 30 diverse topics, including: Getting Inside Your Kid's Head, Seven Things a Teen Will Never Say, Lessons from the Butterfly, Teens and Marijuana, What Our Daughters Need, and The Secret Power Behind Setting Goals.

In the Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers
Laughing and Learning in the First Years of Fatherhood
Author: Tim Bete
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Discover why readers are saying: "I laughed, I cried. . . ", "My sides split," and "The funniest thing I've ever read!" In the midst of the challenges of parenting there's always a chance to smile and recognize the miracle of the young life that is yours to care for. With self-effacing humor and a playful sense of fun, Tim Bete helps you to smile, relax, and enjoy parenting a little more and worry a little less. Permeated by a sense of faith but never preachy, Bete opens your eyes to the little miracles of daily life.

Raising Courageous Kids
Eight Steps to Practical Heroism
Author: Charles Smith
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Sooner or later, no matter how much we want to protect them, our children will face adversity when we cannot be there to help. Perhaps there will be a bully to deal with at school, an offer of drugs, or a life-threatening accident, attack, or illness. But eventually, in some way, life will demand that our children face fear, make choices, and take appropriate action. This groundbreaking guide explains how courage develops from birth to adolescence and provides solid information and practical ideas to help parents nurture courage at every stage.

Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious
Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood
Author: Pat Gohn
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Pat Gohn draws on decades of women’s ministry experience, her popular Catholic women’s podcast Among Women, and her own story as a wife and mother, proclaiming the Church’s compelling vision of every woman: you have dignity (blessed), you are gifted (beautiful), and you have a mission (bodacious).

The lively and unforgettable Gohn guides readers through moments of her life that have shaped her identity and understanding of womanhood—abiding love and talent for music, breast cancer in her thirties, and coming to understand true feminism in light of Church teaching and Mary’s example. More than a mere memoir, Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood offers readers insight into the writings of Blessed John Paul II, which articulate four gifts unique to every woman: generosity, receptivity, sensitivity, and maternity. With humor, faith, and the open-hearted tone of a trusted mentor, Gohn shares how she became empowered to embrace her blessings, beauty, and bodaciousness, and how readers can do the same.

Small Steps for Catholic Moms
Your Daily Call to Think, Pray, and Act
Author: Danielle Bean
Author: Elizabeth Foss
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Danielle Bean, editor of Catholic Digest, and Elizabeth Foss, an award-winning blogger, team up to offer daily doses of inspiration, wisdom, and hope for Catholic moms. Now back in print in response to high demand, Small Steps for Catholic Moms gives busy mothers a year's worth of sustenance: brief daily challenges about which to think, pray, and act.