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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 our superficial, automatic, and always-on culture as you walk through five essential ways of slowing:
- Slow gratification
- Slow schedules
- Slow media
- Slow consuming
- Slow growing up
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
- identify what's moving too fast in kids' lives;
- set a pace of life that supports freedom, connection, and depth; and
- implement practical solutions to give children a grounded, non-anxious, and spiritually rich childhood.
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.
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 our superficial, automatic, and always-on culture as you walk through five essential ways of slowing:
- Slow gratification
- Slow schedules
- Slow media
- Slow consuming
- Slow growing up
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
- identify what's moving too fast in kids' lives;
- set a pace of life that supports freedom, connection, and depth; and
- implement practical solutions to give children a grounded, non-anxious, and spiritually rich childhood.
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.
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"Savoring Childhood by Grace P. Pouch is a book written out of the crucible of lived experience. This makes it of enormous value, not only for our children but for us as well. There is a gentleness in the words that calls us to a deeper, fuller life of unhurried peace and power. I recommend it highly."
Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline and Streams of Living Water
"As a parent in today's fast-paced world, I am deeply grateful that Grace P. Pouch's voice exists to guide us into the ancient and timeless teachings of Christ. Savoring Childhood is exactly the kind of text we need: a soulful meditation on how we can teach a generation-and ourselves-how to be present in the real mystery of becoming. This is a stunning and essential book."
Joseph Fasano, author of The Magic Words