Bags: Helping Your Kids Lighten the Load Bags: Helping Your Kids Lighten the Load
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Do you want your kids to grow up to be emotionally, mentally, relationally, and spiritually healthy?

WE DO TOO!

More and more kids today are struggling to live into this dream. As they go through life, they encounter people and situations that lead them to pack and carry some enormous emotional baggage that holds them back from living in the grace and freedom that Christ provides.

Parents are in a unique position to help their kids “lighten the load” along the way.

This book helps parents become more aware of:

  • the specific bags kids tend to pack as they grow up,

  • how these bags tend to get packed, and

  • the long-lasting negative impacts they can have.

    BAGS also offers practical strategies parents can employ to leverage their influence and prevent some of these bags from getting packed in the first place. The hope is that we can lead our kids into a more stable and healthy future.

What People Are Saying

“Our kids carry around lots of baggage, most of which they didn’t ask for or even take on themselves. Often the emotional, social and spiritual baggage that weighs them down can feel like an unbearable burden. With the multiple voices coming at them from all sides, and the expectations they must constantly navigate, they wonder who understands. In Chris Sasser’s BAGS: Helping Your Kids Lighten the Load we not only can begin to see more clearly what our kids need but also take proactive steps to help relieve the load. Author Chris Sasser has given us the tools and awareness we need to lighten the strain. BAGS brings years of experience and training coupled with the deep care of a lifelong pastor caring for families. This is a great book! I not only highly recommend it for you, but to read with others, sharing ideas and prayer for the kids we love.”

— Chap Clark, PhD: Pastor, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (ret.), Author, Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers

 

“Parenthood remains the “greatest single preserve of the amateur,” which means that failure, to varying degrees, is the norm, not the exception. My dear friend and teammate Chris Sasser’s book Bags is a call for all of us as parents to stop making parenthood harder by pretending its not hard. Bags provides powerful, practical handles designed to help every parent lighten the load our children undoubtedly carry through life. Bags is thoughtful, insightful, helpful and a must-read for us parents in the wild!”

— Stuart Hall: Communicator. Author. Director of ORANGE Student Leadership and INFLUNSR