also in Spanish as HABLE CON SUS HIJOSN
Do you wish you could have more time for conversations with your children, especially on truth and life issues versus the secular culture?
Do you wish you could show them how to make responsible decisions? Do you want them to really know and love God?
Do you think your children will learn it all in Catechism class? You’ll never know unless you reinforce it yourself.
Catholic parents will find comfort in this parenting book when they discover how easy it is to converse and work with their children. For those under five, the conversations are about love and discipline; for older children, the discussions are on faith and respect; and for teens, the focus is on decision-making and defending faith and life, while rejecting peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse, depression, violence, and much more. In short (sometimes five-minute) sessions, families, even dysfunctional ones, come together to be strongly pro-life and pro-Catholic.
These seeds of goodness are planted in one-on-one talks or in "Family Fun Time" activities. The Bible says, "I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it." (1 Corinthians 3:10).
English: Imprimatur: Most Reverend Fabian T.
Bruskewitz, Bishop of Lincoln (NE)
Nihil Obstat: Very Reverend John T.
Folda
Spanish: Nhil Obstat: Muy Reverendo John T. Foldam Censor Librorum.
Imprimatur: Reverendísimo Fabian W. Bruskewitz, Obispo de Lincoln,
Reviews:
Speak to Your Children addresses the issues you need to
address, but sometimes fear to address, with your children offering useful
information and tips from the perspective of an experienced Catholic mother.
This is a serious book for serious parents.
--David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Director, Elliot Institute, Author of Making
Abortion Rare
Unsure how to teach your children
morality and responsibility? Mary Lee Dey has written a book filled with wisdom
and practical advice that takes you step by step through every aspect of
raising happy, holy, and responsible children. Not only will parents who use
this book find that their children grow in responsibility and morality but they
will also find family members deepening their affection toward one another,
which in turn produces peace and harmony in the family. I urge you to read Speak
to Your Children.
--Mary Ann Budnik, Author, Raise
Happy Children Series
When you read Speak to Your Children, participate in it, be active, and
assimilate it. Invite God to
be present in this process so important for
parents and children. The results will be the empowerment
of children to become
Leaders!
--Sr. Isabel Sandino, O. Cam., Diocese of
Grand Island
Overall,
you have a very good resource for parents. I am sure that parents who use this
with their
children will be doing a favor for themselves as well as their
children.
--John
F. Kippley, Founder of Natural Family Planning
International and Couple to Couple
League Natural Family
Planning
In writing her book Speak to Your
Children author, Mary
Lee Dey, draws upon her vast experience of serving others and her supreme
knowledge of the Catholic Faith. The result is a book full of wisdom, complete
with practical exercises to apply what is learned. I highly recommend this
book.
--Mike Dycus, Director Central Nebraskans United For
Life (Hastings, NE)
The “thought police”
work overtime to convince parents that they don’t understand and are not
equipped to talk about sex, drugs, or any number of moral subjects with their
own children...Dey’s handbook for parents, like a refreshing breeze on a sticky
afternoon, contradicts the status quo...
--Judie Brown, President, American Life League, as viewed in Celebrate
Life magazine
Mrs. Dey wants parents to raise wise
children, able to confront the difficulties in contemporary society, through a
grounded faith in Jesus Christ. Given the increased amount of destructive
influence that can overwhelm children and families, Mrs. Dey’s book is
particularly timely.
--Dr. Terrence Nollen, Saint Gregory the Great Seminary (Seward,
NE) from Southern Nebraska Register
It gives good facts and
develops a line of communication between parents and children. It has
worksheets and questions that lead to in-depth discussions on the issues at
hand.... I truly believe that if parents take time and effort to implement
[these] thoughts, it would enhance their knowledge of the faith and the
application of it.... It brings faith down to immediate and current problems
offering good solutions and points of discussion.
--Father Thomas P.
Kuffel (Lincoln,
NE Diocese)
Speak to Your Children is outstanding and would be a great
parenting aid. I am recommending it to all my grandchildren who are now
starting their families.
--Josephine Shafer, Great Grandmother (Grand Island, NE)
Parents have an awesome responsibility as the
primary educators of their children. As in the parable of the sower (Luke
8:4-8), we want to provide that “rich soil” that enables our children to
persevere in holiness toward Catholic adulthood...The lengthy chapter on
sexuality is surely the most important because parents who want to instill
traditional Christian morality are up against most of modern society.
--Lisa Cushnie, Couple to Couple League, Family Foundations Magazine (Cincinnati, OH)
She [Mary Dey] is a wise woman with some great
advice in her book. I am certain God put her there [at the event] for a number
of reasons.
--Jeff Marsh, Vice President, Central Nebraskans
United For Life, The Advocate
(Hastings, NE)
[Speak to Your Children] shares 79 things all kids need to know.
[Mary Dey’s] book can help prepare our children to be the next pro-life
leaders.
--Beth Small, Central Nebraskans United For Life, The
Advocate (Hastings, NE)
Talking to children about topics such as
peer pressure, religion, drug abuse and sex isn’t always easy, but local author
Mary Dey is here to help.
--Sarah Schultz, The Grand Island Independent (Grand Island, Nebraska)
Parents may use these talks as a tool for
opening the doors of conversations with children.
--West Nebraska Register (Grand Island, Nebraska)
Speak to Your
Children
lays out the important topics that, when implanted in our own hearts, can plant
the seed in children from the earliest age. It will help us draw them to that
which their hearts innately long for all their lives: all that is True, Good
and Beautiful.
--Brandi
Marciniak Wife and Mother of two infants. (Pratt, KS)
I think that
in my 10 years as a Catholic Christian, dedicated to the Lord, I had not had
such a complete and educational book. If we look at the patriarch Moses, he
lived in Egypt 40 years, he lived in the desert 40 years; and it was until then
that God considered him ready for his task of liberating the Jewish people from
their bondage in Egypt. By the same token, God inspired Mrs. Dey this book, who
worked on it for 17 years. This
way, He gave the Holy Spirit all the time to inspire her to write with God´s
Wisdom, reaffirming the teachings of our Holy Mother, the Catholic Church. Thanks God for evidently working
through Mrs. Dey.
---Jorge A. Pena
T., Husband
and father of three, member of El Pescador Ministries, and leader of the Spanish
Speak to your Children
class. (Grand Island, Nebraska)
SPEAK TO YOUR CHILDREN by Mary Lee Dey
ISBN: 978-1-5320-6121-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-5320-6122-9 (e)
Publisher: iUniverse
229 pages
Publication date: August 2004
HABLE CON SUS HIJOS
ISBN: 978-1-5320-8640-3 (tapa blanda)
ISBN: 978-1-5320-8641-0 (libro electrónico)
Publisher: iUniverse
260 pages
Publication date: August 2010
