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Savoring Childhood
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Small Steps to Help Children Flourish in a Hurried World
Many children today are caught up in the frantic pace of life, rushed along by forces beyond their control. When kids grow up too quickly and experience life at top speed, they are left distracted, anxious, and struggling to find depth.
The good news is it's possible to help children experience life at a slower pace. In Savoring Childhood, you'll learn how to push back against the demands of oursuperficial, automatic, and always-on culture as you walk through five essential ways of slowing:
Drawn from an average family's experiments with resisting the rush of life and spiritual formation wisdom from voices like Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, Grace Pouch presents practical steps to slow things down so that children can grow deep relational roots, inward character, and a flourishing friendship with God.
With Savoring Childhood, you'll learn how to
God designed childhood to be abundant. Whether in your home, your classroom, or your ministry, you can learn how to partner with God to slow things down so that the children in your life can flourish.
Beginnings
Part 1: Slow Gratification
1. Sweet Countdowns
2. Stretching
3. Time Machines
4. Long-Term Projects
Part 2: Slow Schedules
5. A Palace in Time
6. Tidying Up
7. Speed Checks
8. Singletasking
Part 3: Slow Media
9. Offloading
10. Snail Mail
11. Library Carts
12. Record Players
Part 4: Slow Consuming
13. Simple Tastes
14. The Creative Option
15. Heartfelt Gifts
16. Revival Skills
Part 5: Slow Growing Up
17. Animal Friends
18. Reading Down
19. Counterpoints
Benediction
Acknowledgments
Notes