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All the Way Home: Power for Your Family to Be Its Best

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If you are a Christian woman who needs help redefining your purpose in life because you don't have children, BUY this book. If you are a wife and/or mother who is tired of society (NC17 & violent media, TV, video, music, etc) defining you....and you/your childrens wants and needs, this is the book for you too.

The author presents common sense in a friendly, motherly way and, at the same time, in a shockingly straight-forward manner with frequent support she draws from scripture. She views most things in black and white and can be somewhat tactless in phrasing some of her more stark conclusions. Many of her points are valid though. The primary actions she suggest will go a long way toward simplifying and bringing new meaning into your life. Many alternative activities are provided from lots of sources.

This is a book that I found (and still find) difficult to absorb at times. I usually read a few pages and then work on absorbing it for several days. It can be difficult to face the responsiblity of your own actions and how they affect others around you, including your spouse and children. The book stresses parental & personal responsibility. She stresses repeatedly that a parent's job is hard work and lots of it.

One final note: if you are desperate to have a child by any means necessary....I recommend that you check the book out of a local library first. This book offers you options that you may not want to hear and thus, not pay for. You may find this book brings you insight you never thought possible and decide to purchase it after all. I did.

I have 4 boys and felt that the world was pretty tough on moms who stayed home. But in reading this book, I realized that what I am doing is perfectly OK! As a matter-of-fact, my family has decided that we would leave our family planning to God! Mary Pride has truly re-enforced the concept of back to the basics in living your life as a traditional mother and father. The world is filled with anti-child thinking (ex: family planning, children are incovenient etc.) She really has helped open our eyes on the truth about family life. We are now homeschooling our children, and seriously looking into home birthing our next child(ren).

What a tremendous book for any serious minded Christian, who wants to order his family along biblical lines. Mary's hard-line stance on many issues may offend some, but her entirely biblical perspective is a wake-up call to all who want to make a difference in our society through the way we build and maintain our families. I highly recommend this book!

This book, along with the first- "The Way Home"- are two of the Must Read's that should be on every woman's bookshelf. Mary has a wonderful down-to-earth way of talking to you as though you are talking with a trusted friend. She is also very straight forward in a "Dr. Laura" sort of way. Everything advocated is backed up solidly by Scripture. These two books should be read and shared with everyone you know. If I could afford it I'd buy them for every woman on earth.

This book was excellent. It was full of good sense and it was very uplifting. It praised large families, yet made childless people realize that they had something to offer others too.

I agree with the author that you should have as many children as God would bless you with. Our economy is in trouble today because we don't have enough people to do all the jobs that are available. Also, having babies at home is the SAFEST place to have them. Hospitals are full of germs and the policies they enact are not usually for the baby's or mother's benefit. For this reason among many, Mary is right to recommend homebirth.

Many people may not be ready to listen to Mary Pride. But the world would be a better place if they did. I absolutely love this book!

If you don't like what this woman has to say you are probably under conviction and unwilling to release your freedom to be an obedient servant of God. I have reached many of the same conclusions myself. It took me three years and alot of struggle to get through this book. I threw it across the room more than once. My husband has even struggled with it. But we went back to scripture everytime and kept being called back to this book. Reading Mary's book has reassured me that all scripture is valid even today. It's a pity every woman by age 15 has not been made to study these concepts, fully understand her God given role in life and how exciting it truely can be. Now if we women of today would just pick up the baton and run the race, as Mary has clearly outlined for us in her book, God would bless our families and children again. If you are hungry to see God's hand in your life, Mary has written a beautiful book calling women back to the place God prepared for us in the begining. Buy this and let the rebuke and encouragement draw you back to the 66 books that make up our Bible and guide our lives in the path God has laid out for us as women.

I was very happy to finally get this book and now I want it out of my house as soon as possible. A word to the wise; do not read this if you are having fertility problems or have had an abortion in your past. Your burdens will be alot heavier from the writings of this compassionless woman. For example, on infertility due to a past abortion: "These people were just not meant by God to have children, for reasons that should be obvious." Later on in the book she goes to the doctor with her perfectly behaved children and revels in the compliments she receives. Oh, and by the way, if you raise your children to be Christians, and they reject the faith, it is YOUR fault parents. No kidding.

....but critical of those who don't have a home birth, homeschool, or those who even dare THINK of working outside the home.