As You Walk Along the Way: How to Lead Your Child on the Path of Spiritual Discipline

Where can I start? This book shares a lifetime of failure and triumph, of tears and laughter, and it is real life!! It has really practical ways to teach your children (and yourself!) how to love God with all their hearts. Carla shares her life with a tenderness and humility that only a mother that has been trained by God can. She does not tell you what to do but openly shares her own struggles and joys and encourages you to seek your own relationship with the Living God. Sometimes you will laugh at the silly stories that go along with raising children and sometimes you will cry as you relate to the heart of a mother seeking to lead her children down the narrow path. Without sounding too much like a cliche...You will laugh, you will cry. And hopefully you will cry out to God to make you a parent after His heart. I know it challenged me to do so and to daily look at what I really represent to my children. The book also is written in a way that is easy to read chapter by chapter or to just flip open when you need some encouragement. It is written by a mother, but can benefit both parents as the father is steadily included within the lives of the children. You can look up a certain discipline and how you can apply it each age group. Overall, the book is most excellent book on parenting on the market. If you know someone who needs encouragement or some direction in their spiritual life and in their parenting, this is a book for you! Take the time and the money to make it a part of your library. You will be thankful!