Book Review: Amish Values for Your Family by Suzanne Woods Fisher + Giveaway

The Amish live a simple life. In her new book, Amish Values for Your Family, Suzanne Woods Fisher shares stories from the Amish folk about their lives and values. The book is divided into four sections, each filled with wonderful tales of Amish life: Children Are Loved but Not Adored, Great Expectations, Daily Bread, and Letting Go. Being a new parent, the section that I found most interesting was Children Are Loved but Not Adored. The title at first seemed a bit off-putting. I do adore my child. I love him with all my heart. But that isn't so much what the title means. It refers to how modern parents tend to spoil their children, they "love" them so much that they cannot stand to have their kids not have the latest and greatest toys and gadgets. Amish parents, on the other hand, love their children, but rather than spoiling them, they teach them valuable life lessons and skills.

One story that particularly points out the Amish way of teaching skills to their young is called "The Rabbit Hutch."  It is about two fathers and sons, one Amish and one English (non-Amish). The Amish father wants to buy the supplies and have his son make their hutch. The English father says that there's "no need to reinvent the wheel" and that they will just purchase one. To which the Amish father replies "Unless you're trying to teach your son how to use a hammer and saw" and "to give your son skills he can use for a lifetime." I believe this story illustrates the English folks habit (a bad one I might add) of having things now and getting them easily. Why make something if you can just buy it?

Suzanne Woods Fisher is thrilled to announce the release of Amish Values for Your Family, her latest non-fiction book. "It offers loving ways to bring your fractured home back to life-Amish style. Read it and apply generously! It’s a beautiful book-funny, charming, soulful, and beautiful." -Mary Ann Kirkby
Read the reviews here.

To celebrate the release of Amish Values for Your Family, Suzanne has teamed up her publisher Revell Books to giveaway a Kindle, and with Bill Coleman (the amazing photographer used on Suzanne’s book covers) to give away a signed Bill Coleman original.

One Grand Prize winner will receive an Amish Values Prize Package (valued at over $200) and includes:

* A brand new KINDLE
* A Signed Bill Coleman original
* Amish Values for Your Family (for KINDLE)


Click on one of the icons to enter. Winner will be announced on 9/2 at Suzanne’s blog. Be sure to stop by the blogs on Suzanne’s blog tour – many have copies of Amish Values for Your Family to giveaway.

But, wait there's more! Suzanne is running a Bill Coleman caption contestAmish Photo site and/or a copy of Amish Values for Your Family.

Giveaway

One My Kansas City Mommy will win a copy of Amish Values for Your Family! This giveaway will end on August 31 at 11:59 PM Central time.

To enter this giveaway:

First, leave a comment on this post - tell me one value/skill you want to pass on to your kids! Then fill out the ENTRY FORM. Completing these two steps counts as one entry.

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Looking for more stuff to win?  Check out the Giveaways page for current giveaways and past winners!

Thanks to Revell Publishing & Litfuse Publicity for providing my review sample and the giveaway prize! I received no other compensation and all views expressed are my own. For more information, you can read My Kansas City Mommy's Giveaway Policy.



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