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Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, turns his attention to the family, with the same insight, simplicity and practical wisdom. Strong family units don’t just happen: they need combined energies, ideas, talents and vision. Covey offers practical ideas to jump start your own path to creating a strong and cohesive family.

With the same profound insight, simplicity and practical wisdom that have already reached tens of millions of readers, Stephen R Covey deomonstrates how the principles he introduced in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People can be used to build the kind of strong, loving family that lasts for generations. “When you raise your children you are also raising your grandchildren.”

Recommended by BUV Early Childhood and Families Ministry worker Louisa Raggatt, this book by John Gottman and Julie Gottman provides a step by step plan for preserving marital stability and intimacy after the baby arrives! A great gift for any couple with a new child.

“While it may be alarming to discover that born again Christians are more likely than others to experience a divorce, that pattern has been in place for quite some time.”
George Barna.
Divorce amongst Christians is just as high, if not higher in some Christian denominations, that non-Christians. Doctors Henry Cloud and John Townsend have helped tens of thousands of couples, worldwide, to understand themselves, each other and the marital relationship better. It’s commonplace knowledge that marriage is not easy, but with the right guidance, strategies and help, it can improve, change and thrive.
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A most helpful book for parents with children of any age and will teach you how to:

The teen years can be challenging and even scary for parents and those involved with youth.

The teen years can be challenging and even scary for parents and those involved with youth.

Dr James Dobson, child psychologist and counselor offers biblically based advise regarding the tricky and often fraught role of parent to a boy or teenager. It is increasingly understood that the parenting of a boy is (or should be) quite different to that of a girl, and this book offers strategies and theology for helping parents to provide the best possible soil for them sons to develop from.

From the brilliant St Luke’s range, 28 full colour card featuring a herd of delightful dinosaurs with an important message for kids of all ages: we all need and are capable of developing important skills such as safety skills, friendship skills, decision-making skills and good manners. For anyone working with children these are most effective and clear way of communicating really important stuff to kids who might otherwise struggle with the concepts.

Highly Recommended by CTM and SU Children’s Ministry personnel, Melbourne specialist Brendan Hyde identifies the four primary characteristics of children’s spirituality: and then provides effective and inspiring ideas on how parents and children’s workers can observe and nuture these inherent qualities – thus allowing children to fully realise their spiritual capacity and relationship with the Divine. A very helpful and enlightening book for all who live and work with children.