Johann Christoph Arnold
Biography
Johann Christoph Arnold is a family counselor, author, and pastor with the Bruderhof Communities.
http://www.ChristophArnold.comPublications
Deeds, Not Words
Every Child a Teacher
Explaining Death and Suffering to Children
Great Expectations
In Praise of Black Sheep
Learning to Let Go
Material Child
The Easy Way Out
The Power of a Hug
The Trap of Indifference
Articles
Deeds, Not Words
Don't worry that your children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum In a recent news article about high school students in Tokyo, the writer notes that... [more]
Every Child a Teacher
In a society beset by countless problems, the greatest dangers to children seem obvious enough: poverty, violence, neglect, disease, abuse, and countless other ills. Visible or invisible, suffered or... [more]
In Praise of Black Sheep
There's a black sheep in every flock, and there are few of us who don't know one, or didn't know one as a child. Every family, every class, has one: that brother or sister, boy or girl, who's always... [more]
The Power of a Hug
Before I had children, I had six theories about bringing them up; now I have six children and no theories. - Lord Rochester Mention child rearing to Eric, and you're sure to get him going about his... [more]
The Trap of Indifference
The greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. - Elie Wiesel When Susan and Nick decided to start a family, they were both working full-time jobs, but try as they might,... [more]
Material Child
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - Jesus of Nazareth "Come in," said the professor. John opened the door. Goatstroke was reading an academic journal. He gestured [more]
Great Expectations
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. - Henry David Thoreau In a magazine piece I recently read about a Kenyan school that holds its classes in a shady grove... [more]
The Easy Way Out
There are two main human sins from which all others derive: impatience and indolence. - Franz Kafka Ask anyone to name the chief dangers facing children today, and they're likely to tick off a... [more]
Learning to Let Go
You may house their bodies but not their souls... which you cannot visit even in your dreams. - Kahlil Gibran It is no small thing to bring up even one child - to clear the shallows of [more]
Explaining Death and Suffering to Children
These days, the news is once again full of war and rumors of war. At times like this, even very young children may grow fearful. And since September 11, fears that war may again visit our own shores... [more]
