Raised to Love

by | Sep 12, 2016 | Family Life, Parenting

When parents of a newborn baby set out on the big scary adventure of tackling the myriad of challenges in caring for their baby, there’s no shortage of advice from family and friends to help them on their way.

But what about later, when it’s the really important stuff that parents need help with – like building character and teaching virtue? Well how about raisedtolove.com?

It’s a website specialising in Parenting Snapshots; one-minute videos and handy hints on a particular topic. They make a big thing (like teaching resilience) seem less scary by transforming it into something achievable through practical pointers.

The videos are great because they are simple:  showing an everyday couple talking about the way they teach a particular lesson to their children. That alone is wonderful – it reinforces the (sometimes forgotten) fact that bringing up children works so much better, and successfully, when both parents are on the same page. That said, after spending ten days of the holidays looking after my own single-handedly, I now view the courage and endurance of lone parents in a fresh perspective.

Do check out the site and the videos as they also bring the lessons to life instead of making it seem like a nice idea in theory, but impossible in reality.

Finally, a reminder of two Smart Loving Breakthrough workshops coming up this autumn (for those of you who live in England).
The workshops will be delivered in Welwyn Garden City at Our Lady Queen of Apostles Church on 24th September and in Brook Green Holy Trinity Church on the 15th October.

-Edmund Adamus

Edmund Adamus

Edmund is currently Education Consultant for the human sexuality formation programme A Fertile Heart, Receiving and Giving Creative Love a theology of the body oriented resource for Catholic schools and families. He has worked professionally within varied leadership roles in the Church since 1990. Edmund was Private Secretary to two diocesan bishops. From 2003-2016 as Director of Pastoral Affairs in Westminster. He has contributed to various Vatican publications and addressed the VIth World Meeting of Families in Mexico in 2009. In 2007, he established the St. John Southworth Fund grants scheme on behalf of the Archdiocese of Westminster awarding more than £2m to help alleviate poverty for families across London. He helped establish Caritas Westminster in 2011. He addressed the 2014 annual conference of the American Academy for Fertility Care Professionals on Fertility Awareness –a Male Perspective; and was a guest speaker at the "Re-Engaging Humanae Vitae" conference at Ave Maria University, Florida in 2016. He has been actively involved in Catholic education for over 30 years and is UK representative for the GoodLove Foundation a global platform of sexuality formation resources for parents sponsored by the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. Among his most notable achievements is the establishment of the annual Mass of Thanksgiving for Matrimony at Westminster Cathedral, London, which since 2008 has gathered more than 15,000 couples to renew their marital commitment.  

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