WORLD-PROOF YOUR KIDS
By Tim Sisemore, with Ruth Sisemore
Christian Focus. £7.99. 208 pages
ISBN 1-84550-275-2
Dr. Tim Sisemore, US psychologist, is deeply worried about how young people who have enjoyed the privilege of a Christian upbringing are turning out. He acknowledges that these are difficult times. He goes on to demonstrate that Christian parents are more caught up in the ways of the world than they like to think, as a stridently secular culture invades our lives and our homes.
In a helpful survey he describes four kinds of Christian families, each of whom are striving to cope with the challenge of modern life. There is the disillusioned, the distracted, the disciplinarian and the dedicated. He might have added, the desperate. He says it is not enough to seek to avoid the stain of the world, but we must actively pursue holiness.
