Made This Way

by Leila Miller, Trent Horn

Overview

A generation ago, Christian parents didn't have to worry about how to explain transgenderism to their nine-year-old, or help their teenager deal with mockery at school for believing in traditional marriage.

But today, as our culture's moral center continues to fly apart and with every form of deviance publicly aired and celebrated, we have no choice but to equip our kids to understand and to own the truth about such issues.

It's not easy, though—these are sensitive questions, and with the wrong approach we can harm our kids' innocence even as we try to preserve it.

In Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today's Tough Moral Issues, Leila Miller and Trent Horn give parents (guardians and teachers, too!) crucial tools and techniques to form children with the understanding they need—appropriate to their age and maturity level—to meet the world's challenges.

Their secret lies in an approach that begins not with the Bible or Church teaching but with the natural law. In kid-friendly ways, Miller (Primal Loss) and Horn (Persuasive Pro-Life) help you communicate how the right way to live is rooted in the way we're made. God's design for human nature is a blueprint or owner's manual for moral living that any child can grasp through reason and apply to modern controversies over sex, marriage, life... and the quest for human fulfillment.

Topics covered include:

Sex Outside of Marriage
Same-Sex Marriage
Divorce
Contraception
Abortion
Reproductive Technologies
Modesty
Pornography
Transgenderism
Homosexuality

Silence can no longer be an option. If we're not teaching our children how to understand tough moral issues, then the world will. Read Made This Way and learn how to give your kids a firm foundation on which to build a life of moral clarity and happiness.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160788586
Publisher:	Catholic Answers Press
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	685 KB

About the Author

Leila Miller is a wife, a mother of eight, and a grandmother to several. Though a cradle Catholic, Miller did not discover the fullness of the Catholic faith until young adulthood. She blogged for eight years at Little Catholic Bubble and has published the books Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak and Raising Chaste Catholic Men. She has been featured on EWTN, National Catholic Register, Catholic Answers Magazine, The Patrick Coffin Show, Crisis Magazine, Catholic World Report, and Relevant Radio, among many others. A graduate of Boston College, Leila resides in Phoenix with her husband Dean and their children who still live in the nest. Her website is LeilaMiller.net.

After his conversion to the Catholic faith, Trent Horn earned a master’s degree in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, a master’s degree in philosophy from Holy Apostles College, and is pursuing a master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Mary.
As a staff apologist for Catholic Answers, he specializes in teaching Catholics to graciously and persuasively engage those who disagree with them. Trent models that approach each week on the radio program Catholic Answers Live, where he dialogs with atheists, pro-choice advocates, and other non-Catholic callers.
Trent is also an adjunct professor of apologetics at Holy Apostles College and the author of seven books, including Answering Atheism, The Case for Catholicism, and Why We’re Catholic – Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love.

Editorial Reviews

"Made This Way is an excellent resource for all parents who wish to introduce their children to the beauty of the Church's moral teaching concerning human sexuality. In a practical way it allows the adults themselves to become more acquainted with the rich natural law tradition thus enabling it to be shared with a new generation."

Catholic Answers - Robert Cardinal Sarah Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

"We love this book! It's practical, easy-to-read, and well researched. It's great not just for parents, but for anyone who wants to defend what the Church teaches about God's plan for marriage and the gift of our sexuality."

Catholic Answers - Matt and Cameron Fradd

"[This book] shares the common inheritance of natural law and the supernatural wisdom of the Church on the most fundamental and controversial issues tearing us and our families apart: from abortion to divorce to an assortment of novel and flawed views about human sexuality that make the headlines every day. [It] will arm you with intelligent, loving, and practical ways to inoculate or heal your young children and teens, and to joyfully share with others the beautiful way God has made us. "

Catholic Answers - Kevin Vost Psy.D., psychologist, author of How to Think Like Aquinas

"Down to earth, informed, and ordered to the nature of the child in different stages of life, Made This Way is a ready aid to parents—both for their own reference on the truth of difficult moral subjects and for the confidence it gives them to know what to say to their kids and what not to say. Fathers and mothers, read this book!"

Catholic Answers - Leila Lawler Author of The Little Oratory

"I have just purchased my second case of twenty Made This Way books. I took my first box of twenty books to my women's study group in my parish this morning and sold out within about 15 minutes, and have a list of about 15 more orders. This book is SO important for parents who want to preserve the minds, the faith, and the virtue of in their children. Our Director of Religious Education bought... a case for herself, the school, and one for her Parish School of Religion teachers."

Catholic Answers - Mary W.