Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

by Sally Clarkson

Overview

Guiding Your Children into a Wonder-Filled Life

For years, parents worldwide have asked beloved author Sally Clarkson how she and her husband have ignited a love for learning and a deep faith in their children. They want to know how the Clarksons launched their children to live such vibrant, flourishing lives as adults.

Awaking Wonder is Sally's answer to those questions. This book is thirty-six years in the making and provides a deep dive into Sally's most profound legacy: nurturing and guiding her four children into a wonder-filled life.

Journey with Sally toward

• cultivating wonder all around you, alongside your children
• opening your children's hearts and minds to the grand design, beauty, and goodness throughout the universe
• laying a foundation for spiritual formation and a robust faith in God
• nurturing your children to live into their capacity in intellect, faith, and relationships

If you long for a holistic, creative, spiritually foundational approach to parenting and education, this is the book you've been waiting for.

Also Available: The companion guide, The Awaking Wonder Experience, will help you apply Sally's principles in practical, life-changing ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493424924
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Sally Clarkson is the beloved author of multiple bestselling books, including Own Your Life, The Lifegiving Home with her daughter Sarah, Desperate with Sarah Mae, and Different with her son Nathan. As a mother of four, she has inspired thousands of women through Whole Heart Ministries and Mom Heart conferences. Sally also encourages many through her website, www.sallyclarkson.com, and on her popular podcast, At Home With Sally.
From working on college campuses with Campus Crusade, to sharing the gospel behind the Iron Curtain as a missionary, to traveling around the world as a renowned speaker, bestselling author, and beloved podcaster, Sally Clarkson has been actively pursuing ministry for over three decades. She has a heart to disciple women and mothers to live into the calling God has on their lives.
 
Sally is considered one of the most influential living Christian women and is the author of over twenty books that have sold over a million copies, sharing her heart for the mission of motherhood, the beauty of home, and the art of education on every page she's written. Her books include bestsellers like Different with Nathan Clarkson (Tyndale), The Mission of Motherhood (WaterBrook), Own Your Life (Tyndale), Desperate with Sarah Mae (Thomas Nelson), Awaking Wonder (Bethany House), and many more.
 
Sally is the mother of four adult children, who are successful authors, academics, actors, filmmakers, composers, and speakers in their own right. She is married to Clay, with whom she started Whole Heart Ministries in 1994, which has equipped and discipled tens of thousands of parents with biblical wisdom through international conferences, intensives, Bible study networks, and more. Sally and Clay published Educating the Wholehearted Child in 1996, and it has since become one of the most-read books on Christian home education. Sally and Clay's upcoming book Giving Your Words (Bethany House, October 2022) explores the power of words in a child's life. 
 
Sally's podcast, At Home with Sally, now features over 600 episodes and has been downloaded over 20 million times. You can read more about Sally, her family, and her work at www.SallyClarkson.com.
 
Sally lives between the mountains of Colorado and the cobblestone streets of Oxford, England. She always has a cup of tea in her hand and her golden retriever, Darcy, by her side.

Table of Contents

A Letter to the Reader 9

1 A "Wonderful Beginning 11

2 Committing to a Wonderful Life of Learning 27

3 A Wonder-Filled Mentor 41

4 Mentoring with Love and Lifegiving Influence 59

5 Forming Faith through Imagination and Wonder 77

6 Heartfelt Faith That Never Stops Growing 97

7 A Wonder-Filled Mind That Pursues Treasures of Knowledge 113

8 Wonderful Moral Muscle: Imagining Character and Virtue 133

9 Creating Wonder-Filled Culture Shapers 151

10 The Battle and Joy of Shaping a Wonder-Filled Home 171

11 Securing Wonderful Rhythms, Routines, and Rituals 189

12 Never-Ending Wonder for Lifelong Learning 205

Notes 217

About the Author 219