Greg and Lisa Popcak—popular Catholic authors, radio hosts, and marriage and family experts—present this unique guide to caring for one’s baby, self, marriage, and spiritual life in the first three years of parenthood.
In Then Comes Baby: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood, Greg and Lisa Popcak lend readers the benefit of their twenty-five years’ experience in parenting and marriage and family counseling to help them navigate the earliest years of parenthood. They recommend rituals, routines, and tips on how to manage feeding, fatigue, and finances and how also to prioritize marital bonding and faith life, suggesting that setting the pattern early will pay dividends later. The Popcaks coach Catholic couples as they become first-time parents as they adjust to their new identities and help them face the inevitable challenges of parenthood with ideas for bonding with babies and getting sufficient sleep and nutrition—all while seeing these everyday experiences through the lens of Catholic teaching on the purpose of family life.
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Greg and Lisa Popcak—popular Catholic authors, radio hosts, and marriage and family experts—present this unique guide to caring for one’s baby, self, marriage, and spiritual life in the first three years of parenthood.
In Then Comes Baby: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood, Greg and Lisa Popcak lend readers the benefit of their twenty-five years’ experience in parenting and marriage and family counseling to help them navigate the earliest years of parenthood. They recommend rituals, routines, and tips on how to manage feeding, fatigue, and finances and how also to prioritize marital bonding and faith life, suggesting that setting the pattern early will pay dividends later. The Popcaks coach Catholic couples as they become first-time parents as they adjust to their new identities and help them face the inevitable challenges of parenthood with ideas for bonding with babies and getting sufficient sleep and nutrition—all while seeing these everyday experiences through the lens of Catholic teaching on the purpose of family life.
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With more than ten thousand names of saints and biblical figures, this first-ever guide to Catholic baby names helps expectant parents find a beautiful and creative name for their child. Each entry includes the meaning of the name, language of origin, variations in form, a capsule biography, and relevant feast days and patron saint information.
While it has become increasingly popular to name a baby after a town or a food, readers will discover here a bounty of names that are fun, creative, and Catholic. This new book in the CatholicMom.com Book series boasts thousands of names of saints from Christian tradition and the scriptures, including those newly canonized by popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Among the fun facts to be discovered: there are ten ways to spell Regina, the perennially popular name Jayden means "thankful" and "God has heard," and Sophia--the most popular girl's name in 2012--was a saint who had three daughters named Faith, Hope, and Charity (who were also saints!).
If you have been wondering how to bring the rich traditions of the Catholic Church's liturgical year into your family life, this is the book for you. If you have no idea what the liturgical year is, but you are looking for ways to bring your faith home from Sunday Mass—in every season, all year long—this is the book for you too.
With wisdom and humor mother and blogger Kendra Tierney shares how her family celebrates Catholic seasons and feasts—from Advent and Christmas, through Lent and Easter, to Pentecost and beyond. She provides ideas for stories, activities, foods, and decorations that will help you to celebrate your Catholic faith with your family and friends without expertise or much advance planning. She also offers tips and survival tricks from her fifteen years in the Catholic mommy trenches about such challenges as bringing young children to Mass and saying a family Rosary.
Whether you're a convert or a revert or a lifelong Catholic, a member of a big family or a small one, a stay-at-home or a working parent, you're sure to find ways to make your Catholic faith a memorable and meaningful part of your busy family life—and have fun doing it!
The Catholic deposit of faith and tradition is wide and deep! There are so many different ways to pray that it's impossible for anyone to use them all, let alone someone in a busy family. One hardly knows where to begin. Fortunately, the liturgical calendar and this book are here to help!
In this companion to her bestselling book The Catholic All Year Compendium, Kendra Tierney provides hundreds of prayers for celebrating the important seasons and feast days of the Church calendar. The Catholic All Year Prayer Companion includes the devotions, blessings, litanies, and novenas mentioned in her Compendium, along with ordinary daily prayers, down-to-earth suggestions, and occasional bits of humor.
With busy families in mind, Tierney has put hundreds of jewels from the Church into one easy-to-use resource. The book can be used in tandem with her Compendium or on its own.
This brightly illustrated look-and-learn board book helps toddlers discover and name the fascinating things that are part of the Catholic faith! Written to help engage her young child during church, Look and Learn — Toddler Edition: First Words for Catholic Kids board book by Casey Pawelek makes faith fun.
Sit with your child and go on a “treasure hunt” to explore the colors, sights, and sounds of a typical parish church.
Look and Learn — Toddler Edition: First Words for Catholic Kids board book:
Will hold a child’s interest with colorful illustrations that name people, places, and things
Is the perfect book for young children ages 1-3 to bring to church!
Sparks spiritual curiosity in young children and plants seeds for conversations with parents and teachers
Invites children to experience the Catholic faith from a very early age as lively, fun, and engaging
Makes a great gift for new babies, toddlers, new parents, and children’s ministry leaders
Praying with your little ones is easy with these heartfelt prayers and sweet and captivating illustrations by the popular children's author and artist, Maïte Roche.
In the morning and at bedtime, on ordinary days and on holy days, these 29 simple prayers will draw your family closer to God and to each other.
With its touching and colorful illustrations, this charming little book will be your child's praying companion all year long, leading the children into a lifelong journey of intimacy with the God who made them and loves them forever.
