Recipes for a Sweet Child: Creative, Bible-Based Activities to Help Your Family Thrive

by Katie J. Trent

Publisher:

Whitaker House

, 2023

Practical Help for the Overwhelmed Mom
 
Searching for answers to your toughest parenting problems, like how to turn your children’s grumbling into gratitude? Are you trying to navigate ongoing issues like sibling rivalry, tattling, unforgiveness, peer pressure, or bullying?
 
Author Katie J. Trent combines her counseling and ministry expertise with her own parenting experiences to provide you with a creative guide to work past challenging childhood issues in a winsome way.
 
Recipes for a Sweet Child will help you:

• Teach your kids, from toddlers to teens, how to apply biblical wisdom in any situation.
• Gain invaluable insights to help your kids overcome thirty-six of the most pressing emotional, behavioral, and relational battles that they face.
• Discover simple tools to bring peace and joy into your home with easy, interactive activities and Bible lessons.
• Engage the whole family in fun games and in-depth conversations.
• Build kindness and character in your children so that they become the young ladies and gentlemen God wants them to be.
• Enjoy making delicious recipes with your kids. Full-color photos are included.

Katie J. Trent,a licensed clinical social worker, has over a decade of experience equipping and encouraging families through counseling and ministry. The author of Dishing Up Devotions: 36 Faith-Building Activities for Homeschooling Families, a popular blogger, and speaker, Katie loves to create resources to simplify life for busy moms by infusing faith and fun to build strong families. Katie puts the fun back into the fundamentals of family discipleship.

Praise for Recipes for a Sweet Child

Is your child struggling with anger, anxiety, or jealousy? Are you concerned about laziness, gossiping, or peer pressure? Katie Trent has addressed these issues and many more in her new book, Recipes for a Sweet Child. The wisdom and practical suggestions she offers are geared toward helping moms and dads nurture a robust faith in their kids and strengthen the key relationships in their children’s lives.

Recipes for a Sweet Child is incredibly practical, helpful, and transformative for the whole family! I absolutely love reading the devotional to prepare my own heart and then engaging my kids to participate in fun activities and in-depth conversation questions. This is the perfect way to start our homeschool day! This resource has led to wonderful conversations and Holy Spirit epiphanies about anger, sadness, fear, jealousy, sibling rivalry, and so much more. Katie uses her experience as a licensed clinical social worker to give incredible tools for helping kids with their big emotions and helping parents know how to respond in a loving but effective way. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, or kids’ ministry leader, this book will have a profound impact on the kids in your life and on your own heart! It will also connect you deeply as you engage in the memory-making activities together. This is my new go-to homeschooling book, and I know I will use it over and over again with my kids.

What a delightful and delicious resource to feed the family and soul! I always say, if you can’t make it fun, make it edible. But Katie has made it both fun and edible, while helping young kids to grow emotionally and spiritually. Though my boys are older now and “too cool” for some of the activities, I know I can extract some great discussion prompts and recipes to share with them while studying God’s Word.

Wow! What an amazing, powerful, practical, and deeply insightful book. This is literally a handbook for those who are beginning the great adventure of homeschool. Katie shows her rich wisdom from her own journey and experience. This book is an answer to the prayer of so many who face the challenges and hurdles of being a homeschool mom. No matter what hurdle you’re presented to face or may encounter in the future in homeschool, Katie has diligently created a blueprint for success!

Katie serves up a real treat with Recipes for a Sweet Child. She makes it easy for busy homeschool moms to teach vital social and emotional skills with these unique devotions. You’ll find encouragement for your quiet time and practical ideas for family fun time. You’ll not only make delicious desserts with the related recipes, but you’ll also make precious memories together.

I’m all about having fun as a family, and Katie J. Trent has hit the nail on the head with her book Recipes for a Sweet Child. She combines fun activities with concepts your child needs to learn. From anger and fear to tattling, whining, and lying to relationship issues, Katie offers practical, biblical activities to help your child work through these issues. Not only does she give you biblical solutions, she has fun cooking activities for each emotion. I don’t know about you, but my kids always paid more attention when they saw food involved in our family time. I wish this resource was available when my kids were at home, but I’m thankful I can use it with my grandkids.

Product Details

• Title: Recipes for a Sweet Child: Creative, Bible-Based Activities to Help Your Family Thrive
• Author: Katie J. Trent
• Publisher: Whitaker House
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9798887690018, 9798887690001
• Resource ID: LLS:9798887690018
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-20T10:38:06Z

About the Author

Katie J. Trent, LCSW, is a leader in the Christian homeschool community. She has over a decade of experience in counseling children, teens, and families, having served as clinical director of two mental health agencies and as an elementary school counselor before transitioning to homeschooling and writing. Along with her husband James, Katie also has more than twelve years of ministry and church planting experience. In addition to Recipes for a Sweet Child, she also authored Dishing Up Devotions: 36 Faith-Building Activities for Homeschooling Families. Through writing, blogging, and speaking, Katie loves to inspire women to grow their faith, strengthen their families, and simplify their homeschool journeys. She has been a featured speaker at many homeschool conferences and has written for the Upper Room, Crosswalk, The Christian Journal magazine, homeschooling and parenting blogs, and other ventures. Katie received her B.A. in social work from Boise State University and her master’s in social work from Northwest Nazarene University. She and James have a daughter and son, Kendra and Jordan. Connect with Katie at KatieJTrent.com for more resources to help you put the fun back into the fundamentals of family discipleship.