Keeping Your Kids Catholic (xiv)

And to conclude: the last of the links to my old series over at the Catholic Dads' wwwsite on Keeping Your Kids Catholic.  I can't remember why I stopped doing these: I think I was busy, missed a week, then missed another...

Still, I was starting to repeat myself, so it was probably the right time to stop.

Anyway, here they are.

Winning at Life

Catholic Courtship

Planning a Perfect Week

Keeping Your Kids Catholic: Imaginatively

You Are That Man!

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (xiii)

We are on the home straight! The six links I post to day are the penultimate set from my series over at the Catholic Dads' wwwsite on Keeping Your Kids Catholic.

Standing Up and Being Counted

Celebrating Advent

Ant Hits 21

Vocations Not Careers

Our Fathers' House (A Short Fable)

Lent: A Great Time For Kids

As once before, there is a reason for posting six, rather than five as usual: that is that one of them is directly lifted from this blog, so you may (if you are very lucky) have read it before. And as before, I make no apologies for posting about Advent and Lent at the end of summer: I want to present the complete set in the order in which they were first published.

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (xii)

Here are the latest links to my old series of posts on the Catholic Dads' wwwsite, on Keeping Your Kids Catholic.

Memento Mori

Raising Them as Pro-Lifers

Children of Mary

Right Relationships

A Sacramental Life

I was particularly interested to re-read the one about raising children as Pro-Lifers, given that Bernie started work as an education officer for Life this week...  Remember her - and them - in your prayers.

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (xi)

Here is the next selection from the back catalogue on Keeping Your Kids Catholic over at the Catholic Dads Website.

There are six this time, rather than the customary five, for reasons which should become obvious if you follow the links.

Job Done?

On Holiday

A Touch On The Tiller

Catholic Guilt

Teenage Girls

Direction v. Autonomy

As ever, I have found these fascinating to re-read some five years on: Bernie was just starting University when I wrote these. Now she has finished, spent a year travelling, and has just moved out and is starting her first full time (as opposed to holiday) job, working as an Education Officer for Life.

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (x)

After a couple of days off (it has been peculiarly hectic here, with Bernie preparing to leave home for her new job (and needing to buy a car etc in readiness), Charlie preparing to go to University, (and preparing to re-sit his Driving Test...) and Dominique desperately trying to get 10 pieces of Art done before term starts)... after, as I say, a few days off, here is the latest in my exciting series of old posts from my featured column on the Catholic Dads' wwwsite, on Keeping Your Kids Catholic.

The Temptations of the Flesh

Resisting the Devil

Bernie in Barcelona

Why Didn't Our Lord Marry?

Happy Feast Day

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (ix)

Here are the next links to my old series on Keeping Your Kids Catholic over at the Catholic Dads' wwwsite.

A Great Paradox

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Off To Chartres

Back From Chartres

Living In The World

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (viii)

It is fascinating for me (even if for nobody else) to re-read these old posts from the  Catholic Dads wwwsite. The first of today's links is particularly interesting, as Bernie has now finished University, had a year of travelling, and is leaving home this week to move away and start her first proper (as opposed to holiday) job. The second, and indeed the fifth, are also given a new perspective by the fact that Ant is now happily married.  

Bernie Hits 18

Difficult Conversations

YouCat

Teaching Modesty

Vocations

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (vii)

Here is the next exciting selection from my old Keeping Your Kids Catholic series at the Catholic Dads wwwsite.

Lent

Matrimonial Accord (about Hamsters)

Red Nose Day

Challenging the TV Culture

Sacred Language

The usual apologies apply re the unseasonality of the post on Lent.

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (vi)

My continuing trek through the archives of my posts on the Catholic Dads' wwwsite of some five years ago, on the subject of Keeping Your Kids Catholic.

Teaching about Right and Wrong

Imagination and Faith

Stories

Why Bother Praying?

Educating in the Virtues

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (v)

Here is the next selection of historic posts from my series on the Catholic Dads' wwwsite, on Keeping Your Kids Catholic.

The Language of Faith

A Family Christmas

Family Time

The Lord of This World

Priest, Prophet and King

Again, I apologise for the unseasonality of a post about Christmas in the middle of the summer, but the previous explanation must suffice...

Keeping Your Kids Catholic (iv)

Here is the next set of links in the Keeping Your Kids Catholic series.

I am fully aware of the inappropriateness of posting about Advent in the middle of the summer, but want to put all the links in, in chronological order, so that can't be helped.

Daring to be Different

Responding to God

Celebrating Advent

Divine Uncertainty

Distinctively Catholic

Thanks to all who have commented on these posts, here or on Twitter etc.  I will keep them coming.

The next exciting set of links...

These posts linking to my old series on the Catholic Dads' wwwsite, about Keeping Your Kids Catholic are attracting lots of hits, so I imagine people are finding them useful.

Therefore I will continue to post five links at a time,whenever I have time to compile them.

Here is the next (slightly eclectic) set of posts.

Catholic Minds

Books for Catholic Kids

Love of Scripture

Catholic Family Life

Nothing is Too Difficult


Perhaps I should collect them all together and offer them to the CTS as a booklet?...

More on Keeping Your Kids Catholic

Following the overwhelming response to the previous post on this (by which I mean someone said something kind about it on Twitter...), here are the links to the next five pieces in this series (from 5 years ago, I realise).

What the Kids Say

Praying the Our Father

The Structure of the Rosary and Perseverance

Bernie and the Holy Father

Catholic Music

I am tempted to re-vist the 'What the Kids Say' idea, and get their perspectives on this five years' on.  If they are up for that, I will report back in due course.

Keeping Kids Catholic

I was reminded the other day that some time ago, I wrote a series of posts on the Catholic Dads blog about Keeping Your Kids Catholic.

As that was originally meant to be one of the main themes of this blog, I thought it might a good idea to publish links to them from here.

Here are the first few:

The Introductory Post

The Time of Your Life

More on Time

Growing Kids with Character

The Great Adventure

If there is any interest in this, I will continue to add the links, and will tag all the posts with links in with Keeping Kids Catholic to make it easy to find them.