Family and Parenting

	The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion A Book of Daily Reflections Edited by: Lisa M. Hendey Edited by: Sarah A. Reinhard Price: $17.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 544 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-661-4 Are you a Catholic mom who prays for the wisdom and patience to get through each day? Do you pray for your children, husband, family and friends, and sometimes even yourself? The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion offers a new, daily resource to make the most of those few, precious minutes you have to pause and reflect.
	Divine Mercy for Moms Sharing the Lessons of St. Faustina Author: Michele Faehnle Author: Emily Jaminet Foreword by: Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-665-2
	Good Enough Is Good Enough Confessions of an Imperfect Catholic Mom Author: Colleen Duggan Foreword by: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-731-4 The truth about parenting is that you don't have to get everything right and your family doesn't need to be perfect. Colleen Duggan learned those lessons through years of struggling with unrealistic expectations.
	Getting Past Perfect How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood Author: Kate Wicker Foreword by: Rachel Balducci Afterword by: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-716-1 With honesty, humor, and practical wisdom, Getting Past Perfect helps moms overcome Pinterest-inspired perfectionism by replacing your deepest fears and anxieties with a steady trust in God and the freedom to love authentically.
	The Discerning Parent An Ignatian Guide to Raising Your Teen Author: Tim Muldoon Author: Sue Muldoon Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-689-8 Blending personal experience and practical advice with wisdom they’ve learned from Ignatian spirituality, Tim and Sue Muldoon, authors of Six Sacred Rules for Families, offer guidance for Catholic parents raising teens and tweens. You’ll gain confidence to help your teen make better decisions, deepen the roots for your parenting, and relate to your teen in a way that reflects the tenacious love of God.
	Side by Side A Catholic Mother-Daughter Journal Author: Lori and Ava Ubowski Foreword by: Michele Faehnle Foreword by: Emily Jaminet Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-869-4 Pretty and practical interactive journals are a popular and enjoyable way to reflect through writing, doodling, list-making, and more. Wouldn’t it be even more fun to share that experience with your tween daughter, and in the process share your life and faith with each other?
	Don't Forget to Say Thank You And Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God Author: Lindsay Schlegel Foreword by: Danielle Bean Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-809-0 In Don’t Forget to Say Thank You: And Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God, Lindsay Schlegel reimagines the common phrases we repeat as parents and applies them to our relationship with God. In doing so, she demonstrates how reflecting on our vocation as mothers can inform and illuminate our role as a daughter of God, drawing us closer to him.
	The Grace of Enough Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture Author: Haley Stewart Foreword by: Brandon Vogt Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-817-5 Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did—and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family’s life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionally.
	BeDADitudes 8 Ways to Be an Awesome Dad Author: Gregory K. Popcak Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-718-5 In BeDADitudes,internationally known marriage and family expert Greg Popcak draws on more than twenty years as a counselor as well as his own experience as a father to show how the Beatitudes can be viewed as a practical guide to understanding the love of God and applying that love to being a better father.
	Keep Your Kids Catholic Sharing Your Faith and Making It Stick Author: Marc Cardaronella Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-605-8 Many Catholic parents are tempted to leave the religious education and spiritual formation of their children up to their parish or Catholic school. Professional catechist, popular blogger, and father of two, Marc Cardaronella has a passionate plea for those parents: be your child’s primary educator in the faith by what you do and say. This practical guide gives parents what they need to be a bigger partner in handing on the faith to their children by creating a faith-nurturing environment at home.
	Mary's Way The Power of Entrusting Your Child to God Author: Judy Landrieu Klein Foreword by: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Length: 160 pages Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-669-0 In Mary's Way, a heartfelt book for moms who struggle to guide children through the various stages of their lives, Catholic speaker and teacher Judy Landrieu Klein shows how her own crisis of faith helped her release her children to the care of the Blessed Mother. In doing so, Klein shows you how to find the love, joy, and peace of Our Lord as you surrender your will to him.
	The Handbook for Catholic Moms Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul Author: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-228-9 With warmth and wisdom, Hendey creates an environment where Catholic moms can reflect peacefully upon often-competitive topics like parenting style, types of schooling, and working outside the home. By sharing her own story, Hendey inspires readers to better balance their own needs with the demands of family life and faith commitment.
	Pray with Me Seven Simple Ways to Pray with Your Children Author: Grace Mazza Urbanski Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-574-7 Grace Mazza Urbanski, former director of Children’s Ministry for the Apostleship of Prayer (now the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network), gives parents practical advice on how to help children find opportunities to pray throughout the day in Pray with Me: Seven Simple Ways to Pray with Your Children. Using warmth, humor, and passion, Urbanski draws on personal experience to show how families are brought closer together through deeper contact with God.
	Six Sacred Rules for Families A Spirituality for the Home Author: Tim Muldoon Author: Sue Muldoon Price: $14.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-372-9 Tim and Sue Muldoon bring a wealth of experience as parents, spiritual guides, and religious educators to a practical book for parents that offers six sacred rules for integrating faith formation into everyday family life.
	Couriers of Grace My Daughter, the Sacraments, and a Surprising Walk of Faith Author: Nancy Jo Sullivan Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-679-9 Testifying to the life-changing and joy-giving power of the sacraments, Catholic author Nancy Jo Sullivan shares how moments in her life and that of her late daughter Sarah—who had Down syndrome—unexpectedly triggered a renewed faith and deeper relationship with God and others.
	Then Comes Baby The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Three Years of Parenthood Author: Gregory K. Popcak Author: Lisa Popcak Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-411-5 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.
	Imitating Mary Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom Author: Marge Steinhage Fenelon Foreword by: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-364-4 In an age of much mothering advice but few admirable role models, award-winning Catholic journalist Marge Fenelon delves into ten instances—and corresponding virtues—of Mary’s life that reveal her as the ultimate example and companion for the modern mom.
	Yes, God! What Ordinary Families Can Learn About Parenting from Today's Vocation Stories Author: Susie Lloyd Foreword by: Art Bennett Foreword by: Laraine Bennett Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 128 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-406-1 By profiling ten men and women on their journeys to the priesthood and the convent, award-winning author Susie Lloyd discovered lessons that can be used by every parent who wants to raise faithful children—children who say “yes” to God.
	The Catholic Baby Name Book Author: Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur Foreword by: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 544 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-303-3 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.
	A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism Author: Sarah A. Reinhard Foreword by: Lisa M. Hendey Afterword by: Danielle Bean Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-298-2 In A Catholic Mother's Companion to Pregnancy: Walking with Mary from Conception to Baptism popular Catholic blogger and speaker Sarah A. Reinhard presents the first book to accompany expectant mothers from conception to baptism. This book includes weekly reflections and prayers rooted in the mysteries of the Rosary and related to the baby’s physical development.
	Tiny Blue Lines Reclaiming Your Life, Preparing for Your Baby, and Moving Forward with Faith in an Unplanned Pregnancy Author: Chaunie Marie Brusie Foreword by: Helen M. Alvaré Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-424-5 Chaunie Brusie is the creator of the popular parenting website TinyBlueLines.com and a pro-life advocate for young mothers. Drawing from her own experience of finding herself pregnant as an unmarried college student, Brusie offers young Catholic women in similar situations the resources to thrive in their educations, careers, faith lives, and journeys as mothers.
	A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul Author: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $17.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-273-9 Lisa M. Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com, leader in Catholic new media, and author of The Handbook for Catholic Moms, introduces fifty-two holy companions as guides for the high calling of Catholic motherhood.
	Ready for College Everything You Need to Know Author: Michael Pennock Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-893732-92-6 In high school you live with your parents. In college you live with your friends. In high school a ten-page paper was a bear. In college it's a gift. The people you thought were nerds in high school are okay in college. With everything from how to say good-bye to mom and dad, to tips for getting along with a difficult roommate, Ready for College gives first-time college students what they need to succeed. Michael Pennock offers some wise warnings and advice to help students make an easy transition from high school to college. More than just the nuts and bolts, Ready for College shows adolescents that college is a time to develop a sense of self, not bound by previous ties, yet intimately connected with the love and lessons of family life. Ready for College provides a spiritual dimension, encouraging college students to develop an ongoing relationship with God through the practice of their faith. This book is a must read before first-time students move to college and register for the first semester of classes.
	The Infertility Companion for Catholics Spiritual and Practical Support for Couples Author: Angelique Ruhi-López Author: Carmen Santamaría Foreword by: John Grabowski Foreword by: Claire Grabowski Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-289-0 One in every six United States couples experiences infertility but Catholic couples face additional confusion, worry, and frustration as they explore the medical options available to them. Filling a major void in Catholic resources, The Infertility Companion for Catholics is the first book to address not only the medical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of infertility, but also the particular needs of Catholic couples who desire to understand and follow Church teaching on the use of assisted reproductive technology.
	Gay and Catholic Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith Author: Eve Tushnet Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-542-6 In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how gay Catholics can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching.
	Take Back Your Kids Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times Author: William Doherty Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-893732-07-0 "We may be the most child-sensitive generation of parents the world has ever known—and the most confused and insecure." But it doesn't have to be that way. We can be both sensitive and in charge. We don't have to model our family on the consumer society where our kids become "consumers of parental services" and we become the "servers" with customers who are always right. Dr. William Doherty is convinced that it is possible to be a thoroughly modern parent - who values each child's sensitivities and developmental needs - while still having high expectations for children as persons who have responsibilities to family and community. He shows you how in Take Back Your Kids a timely, yet timeless, confidence-building book that backs up fresh insights with personal experience and advice parents can rely on.
	Small Steps for Catholic Moms Your Daily Call to Think, Pray, and Act Author: Danielle Bean Author: Elizabeth Foss Foreword by: Lisa M. Hendey Price: $17.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 416 Trim size: 5 x 7 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-426-9 Danielle Bean, editor of Catholic Digest, and Elizabeth Foss, an award-winning blogger, team up to offer daily doses of inspiration, wisdom, and hope for Catholic moms. Now back in print in response to high demand, Small Steps for Catholic Momsgives busy mothers a year's worth of sustenance: brief daily challenges about which to think, pray, and act.
	Fly While You Still Have Wings And Other Lessons My Resilient Mother Taught Me Author: Joyce Rupp Price: $16.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-933495-84-2 For thirty years, beginning with Fresh Bread in 1985, Joyce Rupp has comforted millions with such books as Praying Our Goodbyes and May I Walk You Home? For the first time, she shares the story of her own grief in the wake of her mother’s death, offering readers both a profile of her mother’s resilient spirit and a voice of compassion for their own experience of loss.
	Chastity Is for Lovers Single, Happy, and (Still) a Virgin Author: Arleen Spenceley Foreword by: Helena Burns, F.S.P. Price: $13.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-480-1 In 2012, journalist Arleen Spenceley outed herself as a twenty-six-year-old virgin in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed that went viral. In Chastity Is for Lovers, Spenceley expands on that piece, advocating Catholic teaching on sex and marriage with candor and humor, and without judgment.
	God Knows Parenting Is a Wild Ride 9 Things to Hold on to Author: Kathy Coffey Price: $11.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-893732-38-4 There are dozens of books out there filled with parenting tips and techniques. But there are no easy answers to the questions parents ask. Here, however, is a book that digs deeper, that offers parents a vision of what parenting can be. Kathy Coffey acknowledges that parenting is an awesome and sometimes overwhelming task, a wild ride. But by seeking help and support from many sources, the rewards can be unlimited. Many of these important supports and resources come from outside the home, but Coffey also urges parents to look within to discover how fulfilling parenting can be. Readers will come away from this book with a renewed appreciation for parenting and a deeper respect for life lived in a family.
	In the Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers Laughing and Learning in the First Years of Fatherhood Author: Tim Bete Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-893732-87-2 Discover why readers are saying: "I laughed, I cried. . . ", "My sides split," and "The funniest thing I've ever read!" In the midst of the challenges of parenting there's always a chance to smile and recognize the miracle of the young life that is yours to care for. With self-effacing humor and a playful sense of fun, Tim Bete helps you to smile, relax, and enjoy parenting a little more and worry a little less. Permeated by a sense of faith but never preachy, Bete opens your eyes to the little miracles of daily life.
	One Day He Beckoned One Woman's Story of the Difference Jesus Made Author: Antoinette Bosco Price: $12.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-0-87793-999-3 One Day He Beckoned is the story of the difference that Jesus has made in journalist Antoinette's Bosco's life. It's a story of adversity and heartache most of us can only imagine. It takes us through a childhood cut short as she helped care for her younger siblings when her troubled mother could not. Through a disastrous marriage arranged by her traditional Italian father. Through life as a single mother of six children. And through the unspeakable pain of losing two children, one to suicide and one to murder.
	Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood Author: Pat Gohn Foreword by: Terry Polakovic Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-370-5 Pat Gohn draws on decades of women’s ministry experience, her popular Catholic women’s podcast Among Women, and her own story as a wife and mother, proclaiming the Church’s compelling vision of every woman: you have dignity (blessed), you are gifted (beautiful), and you have a mission (bodacious).
	Bringing Lent Home with St. Thérèse of Lisieux Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families Author: Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle Price: $2.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Booklet Pages: 96 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-421-4 Popular author and EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle offers the second in a series of daily Lenten devotional resources for families with children through the pre-teen years, this time focusing on the life and wisdom of beloved St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
	Bringing Lent Home with St. John Paul II Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families Author: Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle Price: $2.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Booklet Pages: 96 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-560-0 This timely new addition to the Bringing Lent Home series focuses on the life and wisdom of recently canonized St. John Paul II. Designed by Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle for families with young children, it offers a variety of prayers and practices for each day of Lent.
	Bringing Lent Home with Pope Francis Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families Author: Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle Price: $3.50 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Booklet Pages: 96 Trim size: 6 x 9 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-617-1 This timely fourth title in the Bringing Lent Home series by EWTN host and popular author Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle invites families with children to let the wisdom and spiritual insight of Pope Francis be their guide through Lent. The story of the popular Holy Father’s life, brief words of inspiration from him, and a variety of prayers and activities are included for each of the 40 days of Lent.
	Helping Teens with Stress, Anxiety, and Depression A Field Guide for Catholic Parents, Pastors, and Youth Leaders Author: Roy Petitfils Price: $15.95 ORDER HERE - ORDER INFORMATION Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches ISBN: 978-1-59471-889-2 In Helping Teens with Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, Roy Petitfils—a Catholic author, speaker, and psychotherapist—offers his personal experience, advice, and faith to give parents, pastors, and youth leaders the knowledge, courage, and tools they need to step in, make a difference, and be the presence of Christ for teens in crisis.