Building Better Families: A Practical Guide to Raising Amazing Children

Beginning with an exploration of the changing face of the family in our culture, Kelly sets every reader at ease by explaining: “A family is not what we think a family must be, or what we hope to have, or must have, or what would be ideal—a family is what we if truth be told have. A family is the one we’ve got.” Nor can a family ever be perfect, he goes on to give an explanation for. “Perfect families exist only in our minds, and it is these imaginings that are very ceaselessly the enemy of our ability to enjoy the wonderful family we already have, or might have if we made it just that little bit more of a priority.”

In Building Better Families, Kelly explores important issues by raising evocative questions: What makes a successful parent? Do you realize that your children are in the midst of a cultural war? What are the five things children in point of fact need? Are you asking your children the right questions? What are you teaching your children about work, money, food, exercise, body image, and sex? What are the priorities of your family culture?

Every page of this book is filled with examples that can be applied to your daily experience of parenting and family, even as at the same time illuminating the broader and deeper significance of family for society and the future of humanity. “The family is at once a deeply personal experience and the cornerstone of all great societies,” Mathew Kelly tells us.

Allow this book of classic wisdom and practical insight to help you build a better family.