In our toxic culture, it increasingly seems as if raising children in the Faith is a losing battle. Perhaps your spouse wishes you were more “fun” than religious, or your peers challenge you in your beliefs. Concerns related to faith can become touchy topics for today’s believers, especially when questions arise regarding your views on family life or your approach to raising children.

With his rare voice of reason and characteristic humor, popular television and radio host Dr. Ray Guarendi provides you with sound practical and spiritual wisdom and expertise as a clinical psychologist and father of ten. In these engaging pages, Dr. Ray addresses numerous issues, such as:

• How can I live my faith better, especially with those closest to me?
• What to do when children ask: Why do we have to go to church when Dad doesn’t?
• Should adolescents be required to go to Mass if they don’t want to?
• What should I do when my adult children aren’t living the Faith?

Dr. Ray lays out ways in which parents can witness to their beliefs, even in broken marriages. He explains how to respond when your children’s faith is threatened at school or by peers who don’t share your beliefs or mindset.

Let Dr. Ray show you how to effectively live your faith and share it convincingly and peacefully with those you love.
Paperback. 163 pages.

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In his latest book, Adoption: Should You, Could You, and Then What?, Dr. Ray Guarendi — renowned clinical psychologist and father of ten adopted children — provides authentic answers to challenging, real-life questions. With humor and wisdom, Dr. Ray draws from professional and personal experience, as well as scientific research, to allay frequent misconceptions. Issues he addresses include:

• frustrations about the adoption process, including why couples have to wait so long
• healthy motives and reasons to adopt
• how to make adopted children feel special
• adopting children of various ages and if it will impact “birth order”
• relationships (if any) between adopted children and their birth parents
• rearing children with special needs
• adopting children of other races
• tips for responding to difficult reactions
• talking to children about their adoption stories
• whether adoptive children should be treated differently

Dr. Ray’s counsel in Adoption is relatable to all families. In an increasingly socially disconnected world, Dr. Ray reminds us that, through commitment and bonding, parents enable children to thrive at “home and beyond.” In discussing how to choose, live, and love adoption, Dr. Ray emphasizes that “a loving, strong parent can do much to put a child on the path to recovery” and counsels, “Never let the opinions of others overrule your decision to adopt.”

Paperback. 176 pages.

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Packed with plenty of real life ideas, this book will improve your self-confidence, authority and peace of mind as a parent. Shunning psychobabble and psychological correctness, its goal is to put the grown up in the family in charge. And when parents rule with love and discipline, children benefit in ways that last a lifetime.

Topics include:

• Discipline is love in action
• Psychological correctness and other disciplinary worries
• Discipline and the nature of kids
• Misbehavior in word and deed
• Disciplining against the flow

Paperback, 300 pages ($15.00 each + shipping & handling)

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