Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends
Authors:  Sarah, Shephen, & Grace Molly
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Just the title alone will make a mom want to peek into the pages of this delightful and helpful book!  Rather than emphasizing the "minimum" of at least getting along, Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends aims for something so much higher -- truly deciding to treat one another as best friends.  Written by three homeschooled siblings, Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends is filled with stories from their own family experiences.  Rather than looking through family life with rose-colored glasses, the authors treat the everyday "irritations" and challenges of living with others from a VERY realistic perspective and challenge readers to look at those struggles we have as opportunities to allow God to grow us.  Written from a conservative Christian wordview, every chapter contains a section written by each sibling, a Bible story, a self-evaulation quiz, and delightful cartoon drawings by their father.  Being cat lovers, we often get a chuckle as we read the cartoon illustrations that feature cats and dogs learning to get along.

This book came highly recommended to me by a friend and I'm so thankful I heeded her advice!  Although older children could read this on their own, I believe it is best enjoyed and then "lived out" as a family.   The writing style is humorous, so we enjoy laughing together, but the topics hit very close to the heart and it has encouraged serious conversations as well.   We have chosen to use Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends for our family devotional reading.  It contains lessons adults need to learn too!

For families who want to be a light in this world, pointing others to the Savior, Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends, is a useful tool that you will refer to again and again.  Highly recommended!


Making the Grade: A+
Cost: $12.00
Value for your homeschool dollar: 10
Reviewed by Cindy Prechtel, Editor