Parenting Forward

How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness

By: Cindy Wang Brandt

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientation

How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness.

In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their children. “By becoming aware of the complex ways we participate in systems of inequal­ity or hierarchy”, she says, “we begin to resist systemic injustice ourselves, empower our children, and change our communities.”

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A parenting book for those who have faith shifted

This is a great book on parenting for anyone who, like me, has moved from a more conservative evangelical faith to a more progressive expression. Brandt has a similar faith shift and journey, albeit from a Taiwanese background. highly recommend this.

Beautiful, life-giving, and thought-provoking

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, taking each chapter, listening, hearing and understanding, and how to portray that in my life with my children.

Good Read

Parenting Forward: How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, ad Kindness was a good read by Cindy Wang Brandt. This book talks about how to raise children with justice, mercy and kindness to create a better world. This was a good read about using Christian principles to help raise your children.

transformative/necessary 4 progress! comprehensive

very insightful and delicately confrontational. will use this a s reference for the next 9+ years for my children as well as recovering and diagnosing some of my own childhood experiences.

Excellent resource for parents

I am so thankful for Cindy’s voice in this area. As a therapist who specializes in working with children, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone trying to parent their children in ways that respect their value as fellow people instead of sub-humans that should obey or be seen and not heard. Also having gone through a similar faith shift and intentionally changing our parenting philosophy from the authoritarian styles of our parents, I regularly found myself challenged in ways my parenting practices still don’t align with my beliefs. This book is well worth your time.