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    Lenten Survival Guide for Kids: I am Supposed to Do What?!
    Lenten Survival Guide for Kids: I am Supposed to Do What?!
    Lenten Survival Guide for Kids: I am Supposed to Do What?!
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    Lenten Survival Guide for Kids: I am Supposed to Do What?!

    By Peter Celano

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    Written for 7-11 year olds, this playful guide appeals to kids who want to know more about what adults are telling them is a serious time. Without talking down to them, and challenging them to learn and do more, the following topics are explored in detail: What Lent Is, What Lent Definitely Is Not, 40 Days of Survival Tactics, and A Few Prayers and Practices — Only for Kids.

    From What Lent Definitely Is Not:

    People easily become confused on this subject. In fact, we’re glad you are reading this book, because we want to set you, at least, straight. You can then please set others straight.

    Lent is not about "giving up" silly things. It is not about making sad faces to show how difficult life has suddenly become for you. (Need we start explaining how most of the world would think that giving up candy bars or soda for 40 days sounds just plain silly? According to Bread for the World, 925 million people around the world go hungry each day. So please don’t talk about the terrible hardship you are undergoing by giving up M&M’s and Coca-Cola for a few weeks.)

    So instead of focusing on what you may give up, take time to consider why you may do it. You give stuff up for Lent because you want to become a better Christian. You are testing yourself — and allowing God to test you — to see if, by giving up something that maybe you are too focused on in everyday life, you can concentrate more on him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781612615929
    Lenten Survival Guide for Kids: I am Supposed to Do What?!
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    Peter Celano

    Peter Celano is a writer and editor at Paraclete Press who is also the recent author of the popular book, My Year with the Saints for Kids.

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      Lenten Survival Guide for Kids - Peter Celano

      What’s the Purpose of Lent?

      You may have heard about this thing called Lent. This is your guide to not only surviving it, but also—dare we suggest?—loving it. Wait. Allow us to explain . . .

      There are no ghouls, vampires, and ghosts in Lent. Whoever told you there were, never listen to what they say ever again.

      Lent is a season of the year, a time that comes around on the calendar a little while after the Christmas decorations are taken down. It can be a bit frightening how quickly the days of Joy to the World and Away in a Manger turn to giving up stuff we love . . . hearing words like repentance . . . and ideas such as fasting. More on fasting later.

      In your imagination, Lent is most of all probably the time of year when your mother or father starts to talk about how everyone has to give something up. Something you really, really like—you have to steer clear of during Lent.

      Now, keep in mind that many kids smarter than you have tried to be clever about this in the past. For example, you may have already thought of this one: giving up something that you’d be happy to give up just about anytime. It’s an old trick. The conversation goes something like this:

      Why do we do Lent every year anyway? Sure, it comes around on the calendar, but why do it? Why—for instance—would

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