The Christian Mama's Guide to the Grade School Years : Everything You Need to Know to Survive (and Love) Sending Your Kid Off into the Big Wide World Paperback / softback

Prepares moms for the time when their school-aged kids take their first few steps into the world and away from mama's nest. Sending a child off to school is a whole lot more than stocking up on school supplies and packing a (somewhat) healthy lunch.

This helpful guidebook walks Christian moms through: discovering a long-term vision for the person that Christ has purposed for your child to becomeinstilling a sense of "who I am and where I came from" in your childchoosing a school for your kidshelping your kids to develop key attributes—courage, kindness, perseverance—that lead to success in schooldealing with teachers, sports, and lessonsnavigating those difficult conversations that will come sooner rather than latera special feature includes sidebars "From the Principal's Office" with insights from a 35-year elementary school principal and educatorMoms will learn how to cover their children in prayer so that their launch into the world, and away from her control, is done with grace and wisdom—helping them grow into the men and women God intended them to be.