Media Library
Parenting | Adoption | Foster Care
Title Starts with 'H'
The Our City Blessed media library items are available to borrow for personal use at no cost using the honor system. In order that others may utilize the library resources, we ask that you only borrow up to three media item at a time and return them within a month.
Media library requests from our ministry cities will be delivered and picked up by one of our team members or volunteers.
While our focus is the cities in which we have ministries, we accept media library requests for those who live elsewhere. Our City Blessed will ship these media requests. For shipped media, we ask that if you are able to please pay for the return shipping. If unable to pay, please check the box when submitting the Media Request Form and we will include a postage paid return envelope.
Library media is listed alphabetically by title.
Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
by Justin Whitmel Earley
Item Number: 1148
Book -- Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond the chaos of family life as you create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other.
You long for tender moments with your children--but do you ever find yourself too busy to stop, make eye contact, and say something you really mean? Daily habits are powerful ways to shape the heart--but do you find yourself giving in to screen time just to get through the day? You want to parent with purpose--but do you know how to start?
Award-winning author and father of four Justin Whitmel Earley understands the tension between how you long to parent and what your daily life actually looks like. In Habits of the Household, Earley gives you the tools you need to create structure--from mealtimes to bedtimes--that free you to parent toddlers, kids, and teens with purpose. Learn how to:
Develop a bedtime liturgy to settle your little ones and ground them in God's loveDiscover a new framework for discipline as discipleshipAcquire simple practices for more regular and meaningful family mealtimesOpen your eyes to the spirituality of parenting, seeing small moments as big opportunities for spiritual formationDevelop a custom age chart for your family to more intentionally plan your shared years under the same roof
Each chapter in Habits of the Household ends with practical patterns, prayers, or liturgies that your family can put into practice right away. As you create liberating rhythms around your everyday routines, you will find your family has a greater sense of peace and purpose as your home becomes a place where, above all, you learn how to love.
Healing Research
The TCU Institute of Child Development
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DVD -- In this presentation, Dr. Karyn Purvis reviews a wide range of research that gives insights into developmental deficits that drive many behaviors of at-risk children. Dr. Purvis explains the science of the physiological changes in children can be induced by early harm. This lecture aims to help parents and caregivers see the “real child” beneath their child’s behavior.
Healthy Parenting: Become the Parent You Wish You'd Had
by Rick Johnson
Item Number: 1176
Book -- Learn how to be a good parent, even if your own parents were abusive, neglectful, or absent. In Healthy Parenting, Best-selling author Rick Johnson offers compassionate and practical advice that will help you heal, break the cycle of toxic parenting, and create a positive family environment.
Healthy Touch
The TCU Institute of Child Development
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DVD -- Touch is a universal language – more dynamic and powerful than any other form of communication. Tragically, children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and/or trauma have often lost the ability to trust loving adults. This can greatly impact their ability to experience touch in healthy, appropriate ways. Healthy Touch explores research about touch and provides practical applications for adding healthy touch into our daily lives.