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  • Parenting Forward

  • How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness
  • By: Cindy Wang Brandt
  • Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
  • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (59 ratings)

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Parenting Forward

By: Cindy Wang Brandt
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientation

How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness.

In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their children. “By becoming aware of the complex ways we participate in systems of inequal­ity or hierarchy”, she says, “we begin to resist systemic injustice ourselves, empower our children, and change our communities.”

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A parenting book for those who have faith shifted

This is a great book on parenting for anyone who, like me, has moved from a more conservative evangelical faith to a more progressive expression. Brandt has a similar faith shift and journey, albeit from a Taiwanese background. highly recommend this.

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Beautiful, life-giving, and thought-provoking

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, taking each chapter, listening, hearing and understanding, and how to portray that in my life with my children.

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transformative/necessary 4 progress! comprehensive

very insightful and delicately confrontational. will use this a s reference for the next 9+ years for my children as well as recovering and diagnosing some of my own childhood experiences.

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Excellent resource for parents

I am so thankful for Cindy’s voice in this area. As a therapist who specializes in working with children, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone trying to parent their children in ways that respect their value as fellow people instead of sub-humans that should obey or be seen and not heard. Also having gone through a similar faith shift and intentionally changing our parenting philosophy from the authoritarian styles of our parents, I regularly found myself challenged in ways my parenting practices still don’t align with my beliefs. This book is well worth your time.

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Parenting Forward: How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, ad Kindness was a good read by Cindy Wang Brandt. This book talks about how to raise children with justice, mercy and kindness to create a better world. This was a good read about using Christian principles to help raise your children.

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Well-researched, bold, compassionate, and wise...

This book will be a wonderful tool for many parents who are trying to raise their kids in turbulent times. From race, gender, religion, and more... If you need any advice, encouragement, or inspiration, the author has lived through profound questions and experiences in her own life as a parent and justice-seeker and draws on cutting edge research from across diverse fields to provide guidance. This is a must-read resource for parents who want to raise their kids to embrace their full agency and value. After reading this book you'll be reminded of the importance you have as a parent to raise up the next generation to impact the world with more justice and love.

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For people trying to be better parents

This is a great book for people who grew up conservative but have changed and want to parent in a better, modern way

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A good book, but not quite what I was looking for

A good book, but I was hoping for more practical walk throughs, though it did offer some good insights into varying issues in the world.

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