Raising children ranks as one of life’s most rewarding adventures. Yet between Mom and Dad working full-time jobs, endless carpooling of overscheduled youngsters, and the never-ending pressures to buy and consume, family life can be incredibly—needlessly—complex. What if you could find a way to spend more time with your children, replace unnecessary activities with meaningful ones, and teach your children an invaluable life lesson in the process? Living Simply with Childre…
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Many of us are fed up with the continual bombardment of advertisers and the materialistic lifestyles we live. We yearn for lives that are less stressful, more meaningful, more fun, more environmentally sustainable, and better for our children. But how do we achieve these laudable goals in a culture stricken by affluenza?
We can begin by reading reading Marie Sherlock’s Living Simply with Children, a superb book — one of the best books I’ve read all year! Packed with lots of sensible answers to living a nonconsumer life in a world of runaway consumption, it’s a treasure chest of vital information. This marvelous book should be required reading for all Americans…although advertisers and corporate America would certainly throw a fit.
The author’s insights, experiences, research, and suggestions will inspire you to rethink and reshape your life for the betterment of the bedraggled planet we call home…lest we forget, the only habitable piece of real estate in our solar system. I’ve found it very useful in reshaping our family life.
In addition to purchasing several more philosophical texts on child-rearing, I bought this book hoping to get some basic ideas to promote simplicity in our family’s life. This is a quick-read full of excellent ideas to pare down the influence of consumerism for our families. I plan to utilize a lot of the ideas in the book and to contact several of the resources listed. I give this 4 stars because it is VERY basic, but excellently written.