PARENTING
BOOKS
Parenting Toward the Kingdom
By Philip Mamalakis, PhD
Description: "The Orthodox Christian tradition is filled with wisdom and guidance about the biblical path of salvation. Yet this guidance remains largely inaccessible to parents and often disconnected from the parenting challenges we face in our homes. Parenting Toward the Kingdom will help you make the connections between the spiritual life as we understand it in the Orthodox Church and the ongoing challenges of raising children. It takes the best child development research and connects it with the timeless truths of our Christian faith to offer you real strategies for navigating the challenges of daily life.
About the Author: Dr. Philip Mamalakis, with his wife Georgia and seven children, lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is the Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Dr. Mamalakis directs the field education program and teaches classes on pastoral care, marriage and family, grief, death and dying, and topics related to pastoral counseling. He has a private practice in Newton, Massachusetts, where he works with individuals, couples, and families. Dr. Mamalakis has an M.Div. from Holy Cross and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in child development and family studies, specializing in marriage and family therapy. He has been offering parenting courses and writing on parenting for 21 years. He enjoys leading seminars and retreats on intimacy, relationships, marriage, parenting, and family life as well as Orthodoxy and psychology."
Parenting Toward the Kingdom: A Companion Guide
By Kendra Hunter, Kristina Tartara, and Stephanie Petrides with Philip Mamalakis, PhD
Parenting Toward the Kingdom won’t get our kids to behave, take away our parenting struggles, or make us into perfect parents. What the book can do is help us understand the path of parenting. But we still need to walk the path or, more accurately, struggle and grow on the path of raising our children.
As a bestseller for Ancient Faith Publishing, Parenting Toward the Kingdom has helped countless Orthodox and non-Orthodox parents struggle and grow with their children as they raise them in the Faith. Now, this companion guide enables parents to use the book even more effectively, by encouraging them to come together for discussion and support.
The ten sessions presented here tie in closely to the book and include new material, in-depth discussion questions, parenting examples, and time for prayer and reflection. You’ll find the companion guide full of practical tips—based on current parenting research as well as Orthodox principles—that you can take into your home and practice on a daily basis with your children.
This guide was created as a resource for parish-based parenting groups, though it can also be used individually. For a more in-depth experience, it is best used alongside Parenting Toward the Kingdom.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR PARENTS
Everyday Orthodox: Meet Dr. Philip Mamalakis
An ANCIENT FAITH MINISTRIES presentation for viewers to get to know Dr. Philip Mamalakis, a family man with a wife and six kids. He lives in Boston, teaching pastoral care at the Greek Orthodox Hellenic College Holy Cross Seminary. He often writes and speaks on marriage and parenting and offers the Orthodox perspective on mental health.
Monday, October 4, 2021
An Orthodox Christian Perspective on Respectful Parenting, Discipline & Struggling with Our Children
Dr. Philip Mamalakis speaks with Taylor Kulik of RECLAIMING PARENTHOOD.
"Topics discussed include: Is obedience the goal of parenting?
- How we should discipline our children
- Struggling with our children
- The importance of repentance
- Naming and validating emotions while holding limits
- & more!"
The Sacrament of Daily Life: Marriage & Parenting
Presented by EAGLE ROCK INSTITUTE OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
Topics include:
1. The Sacrament of Listening
2. The Sacrament of Married Life
3. Parenting Toward the Kingdom...in the Heat of the Moment
4. Parenting from the Outside, In
Talking to our Children about Sexuality & Gender Issues (Part 1)
Fr. Alex Goussetis from Ancient Faith Ministries' Family Matters Series speaks with Dr. Philip Mamalakis on the trends in society and what conversations we can encourage with our children.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Talking to our Children about Sexuality & Gender Issues (Part 2)
Fr Alex Goussetis from ANCIENT FAITH MINISTRIES' Family Matters Series speaks with Dr Philip Mamalakis on the trends in society and what conversations we can encourage with our children.
How Should Orthodox Parents Talk to Their Kids About Homosexuality?
An ANCIENT FAITH MINISTRIES Presentation: The Director of the Antiochian Department of Christian Education, Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Philip Mamalakis, an Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, about how to talk about marriage, intimacy, and homosexuality with your children. Wednesday, February 12, 2020
The Saint Emmelia Podcast 086 - Interview with Dr. Philip Mamalakis
On this ANCIENT FAITH MINISTRIES episode, Dr Philip Mamalakis shares advice and reflections as well as his motivation for writing Parenting Towards the Kingdom which Matushka Melissa and her husband, Fr Benjamin, recommend as THE parenting book every Orthodox Christian needs. Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Coping with uncertainty, By Dr. Mamalakis
In this episode of the podcast of LISTEN: LIVING EDUCATION, Dr Philip Mamalakis, the author of the book Parenting Toward Kingdom, father of seven children, gives us advice on how to cope with the stress created by uncertainty that the current situation presents us with.