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SHAPING YOUR FAMILY’S FUTURE


INTRODUCTION It takes more than a few trips to the baby store and a series of classes to prepare


for parenting. Shaping Your Family’s Future will introduce you to important foundations of parenting. It will help you develop the skills you need to parent with your eyes and heart wide open. The purpose of this resource is to help you understand the ways your family history shaped you and how that history shapes you as a parent. As you read Shaping Your Family’s Future, you can respond to the questions and discuss your thoughts and feelings with your spouse or with another person who may be committed to parenting with you. This sharing helps you develop a clearer sense of how you view yourself, your marriage, your family, the church, and the people around you. Some of your ideas about parenting will change simply by using this resource. Shaping Your Family’s Future will attempt to address most family structures. The information and exercises in this resource will be useful whether you are married or single, pregnant or adopting, creating a blended family, taking over the care of a child, or already parenting a little one. Throughout, you will find the term co-parent. This might refer to your spouse, a friend, a neighbor, a grandparent, or anyone else who is committed to helping you shoulder parenting duties. You will find that as you expand your definition of “family,” you may start to see others around you as partners in your parenting. The concepts in Shaping Your Family’s Future will


also apply regardless of your own family background. You may have been raised in a home with two parents, a single


parent, an older sibling or grandparent acting as your guardian, or as a ward of the state in a group or foster home. You may have been part of a religious family or an agnostic family. You might have had a tough childhood or a great one. No matter what your personal history looks like, you will benefit from this resource. Shaping Your Family’s Future helps


you reflect on and work together with your spouse to flesh out your views on what


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