Transform your family's daily routines into moments filled with connection, faith, and purpose. The Common Rule: Habits of an Ordinary Family offers simple, grace-filled habits to help you parent with intention, no matter how busy life gets.
Amidst the chaos of family life, it's easy to feel overwhelmed: too busy to slow down, too tired to be intentional, and too distracted to truly connect. You yearn for tender, meaningful moments with your children, but too often screen time becomes a solution to simply survive the day. In The Common Rule: Habits of an Ordinary Family, award-winning author and father of four, Justin Whitmel Earley, offers a refreshing vision for parenting that doesn't demand perfection—only presence. With honesty and hope, he shares simple habits and practical daily rhythms that can transform ordinary routines into sacred opportunities to cultivate connection, character, and love for God.
You'll discover how to:
- Establish bedtime liturgies that soothe your children and root them in God's love
- Reframe discipline as a form of discipleship, guiding with grace and truth
- Turn family meals into intentional, meaningful, and spiritually nourishing times
- Recognize spiritual depth in the everyday moments of parenting
- Create a personalized age-chart to thoughtfully plan the precious years shared under one roof
Each chapter concludes with actionable practices—patterns, prayers, and liturgies—that you can start using immediately. Whether you're in the diaper stage or raising teenagers, The Common Rule: Habits of an Ordinary Family will help you create a home where love, faith, and connection truly flourish.
