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 a lively question-and-answer format, Dr. Ray unpacks issues ranging from sibling relationships and peer pressure to curfews and chores to overcoming backtalk and teaching your kids to avoid drugs. He equips parents to give their teens a safer, more stable adolescence and help them develop virtues for a lifetime with practical approaches such as:

• Three techniques for becoming a calmer parent
• Five ways to monitor your child’s use of technology
• Four simple house rules that lead to success
• A strategy to motivate underachievers

You will also learn key sayings for communicating more effectively with your teens. In addition, you will find out specific ways to cultivate an attitude of gratitude in your kids. Most significantly, you will learn how to help your children treat you with respect, a habit they will then develop in their relationships with others as well. As you grow in becoming a stronger parent with calm, loving resolve, you will learn how to foster quality time with your teens and have real fun together.

This book is wise, perceptive, and laugh-out-loud funny. Dr. Ray uses his trademark humor-with-a-dash-of-sarcasm to give those parents who are barely treading water some good, sound, logical advice to change the tone and tenor of their households for the better.
Paperback. 225 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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You’ll learn:

• To avoid the causes of guilt, worry and frustration
• To calmly handle behavior that looks “abnormal”―but isn’t
• To give up unproductive tactics such as nagging, counting to three and bribing―so that you can discipline more quietly, fairly and effectively
• To end practices that are guaranteed to drive you batty, such as over reasoning, quibbling and perpetual overseeing

Paperback, 241 pages ($15.00 each + shipping & handling)

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