Vanessa Johnson’s Reviews > Parenting Toward the Kingdom: Orthodox Principles of Child-Rearing > Status Update

"Only a saint can be patient, respond and never react, know the best way to intervene each time, and put up with the constant struggles that come with raising children... Learning how to parent is not about trying to be the perfect parent, but being perfected as parents. Our call as parents is to become holy, to be sanctified and healed in and through our parenting."

"I never have time for their fights. However, I have to remind myself that this is what my time is really for...through those struggles they're acquiring the timeless virtues that will transform them and lead to a perfect, holy, peaceful, and sinless life.... We are working for the salvation of our children's souls, and God is forming them as persons through our responses to sibling conflict and rivalry."