Raising children is a lifelong journey and is never what you imagine it to be.
Becoming a Family explores the first three intense and joyful years of the family
journey. This is also a profound personal journey: Parents need to trust their
own inner sense as a guide for health and truth. After all, mothers and fathers
have been raising children successfully long before childcare experts came along!
Babies arrive ‘trailing clouds of glory’, creating a profound spiritual and human
presence during their first three years. Margaret Shaw offers a sensitive and
helpful window into how to welcome babies into this earth with warmth, love,
insight, joy, rhythm, structure and sensitive care. This helps lay healthy
physical, psychological and spiritual foundations for life. The book follows
the incarnating process of the child, starting before conception through the
first three years of the family up to the third birthday.
Themes covered include: home making, pregnancy and birth, motherhood
and fatherhood in prospect, parents' first year, the child's first, second adn third
years, the twelve senses, guardian angels and grandparents. Parents' stories
offer thought-provoking personal experiences of different ways of becoming
a family.
