Savoring Childhood: Practical Wisdom for Slowing Down

Small Steps to Help Children Flourish in a Hurried World Many children today are caught up in the frantic pace of life, rushed along by forces beyond their control. When kids grow up too quickly and experience life at top speed, they are left distracted, anxious, and struggling to find depth. The good news is it's possible to help children experience life at a slower pace. In Savoring Childhood, you'll learn how to push back against the demands of our superficial, automatic, and always-on culture as you walk through five essential ways of slowing:

- Slow gratification - Slow schedules - Slow media - Slow consuming - Slow growing up

Drawn from an average family's experiments with resisting the rush of life and spiritual formation wisdom from voices like Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, Grace Pouch presents practical steps to slow things down so that children can grow deep relational roots, inward character, and a flourishing friendship with God. With Savoring Childhood, you'll learn how to

- identify what's moving too fast in kids' lives; - set a pace of life that supports freedom, connection, and depth; and - implement practical solutions to give children a grounded, non-anxious, and spiritually rich childhood.

God designed childhood to be abundant. Whether in your home, your classroom, or your ministry, you can learn how to partner with God to slow things down so that the children in your life can flourish.

© 2026 IVP Formatio (전자책): 9781514011171

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