🤍 Discussing Gender with Small Children: Book Recommendations

Parenting in 2024

👦 👧 Discussing Gender with Small Children: Book Recommendations for Children and Parents

We all know by now that in 2024, this is simple par for the course…but it’s still incredible sad. I mean, don’t we all have memories of watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies as children? It was always a safe, family oriented event. What happened?

Book Recommendations For Children

Elephants are not Birds - Ages 4-8, “Follow Kevin as he learns that even though he can sing, he is not a bird, even if Culture insists that he is. In the back of the book, there are fun games and discussion questions that will help instill the values taught in the story.”

God Made Boys and Girls - Ages 2-7, “Helps children understand that their gender is a gift from the God who made them and loves them. Included at the back of the book is a special section just for parents and caregivers that gives biblical guidance and help as they have this important conversation with their children.”

She is She- Ages 2-12, “SHE IS SHE is a ground-breaking children’s book (for kids 2-8 years of age) by wife/husband duo Bethany and Ryan Bomberger, that explores what it means to be female…and love it! Through rhyme and super cute illustrations the book creatively celebrates being a girl.”

Book Recommendations For Parents

Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids To Understand and Live Out God’s Design, “Starting at a young age, kids are being fed damaging misinformation about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s up to you to help your children understand God’s truth about these integral concepts in the face of the candy-coated lies that saturate today’s world.”

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, “Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.”

📖 A Simple Three Ingredient Bake

Perfect for experienced bakers and the moms who can’t be bothered to follow all the measurements and instructions (although there is some of that here).

🍌 Banana Scones

Ingredients

• 3 ½ cups Self-Rising Flour (plus more to work the dough

• 1 ⅓ cup Mashed Banana (a bit less than 3 large bananas)

• ⅔ cup Vanilla Yogurt, any kind (plus a bit more to brush on top of the scones)

Optional

• ½ cup Vegan Dark Chocolate Chips - or chopped pecans, walnuts

• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon

• ¼ cup Sugar

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C). Line baking sheet with parchment paper and slightly oil it.

• Mash enough bananas to measure 1 + 1/3 cups (usually under 3 large bananas).

• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. If using them, add the cinnamon and sugar now.

• Flour your hands to knead the dough. The dough is sticky and crumbly. You need to squeeze and knead to form a dough. The dough will be rough, imperfect, and not smooth, and that's normal.

  

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• If used, fold in chocolate chips or nuts now.

• Clean your hands if needed, and lightly oil your hands to prevent the dough from sticking to your fingers.

• Sprinkle flour on the work surface, and place the dough on it, sprinkle a bit more flour on top. Using your hands, press and flatten into a 0.8-inch thickness (2cm).

• Use a cookie cutter or mason jar lid (5 cm) to press and cut out pieces of dough. Oil the cutter to avoid sti

• Place the cut-out scones on the prepared baking sheet, leaving a thumb space between each.

• Brush the top of each scone with yogurt.

• Bake the scones on the center rack of the oven for 15 to 17 minutes at 390°F (200°C) until the top is golden brown.

Full recipe here.

Let’s not despise small beginnings (reference Zechariah 4:10)! As you may recall, earlier this month it was announced all proceed from a sponsor in the July 8th publication would go towards Carry Them Ministries, a Christian non-profit serving babies and their caregivers impacted by severe acute malnutrition and the maternal mortality crisis in Nigeria.

Here are the results and what has been donated! And although it may not be much, it’s a great beginning.

If you want to find out more about the work of Carry Them Ministries, check out the video below.

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