The Book
The book Learning about L.I.F.E.-- Love, Infatuation, Friendship, Exploitation calls forth a new family-based ministry geared toward building healthy relationships and preventing abuse of all kinds. The book contains six age-appropriate, interactive sessions that enable open dialogue between parents and children on these sensitive topics.
The L.I.F.E. program is based on three foundational principles:
- the body is a sacred gift from God to be loved and protected.
- family is the best environment for all teaching on sexuality.
- any instruction on sexual abuse should be provided in the context of loving relationships.
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Author Biographies
Kieran Sawyer, SSND
is founder and Director Emeritus of the TYME OUT Youth Center in Stone Bank, WI. She is a nationally acclaimed author and lecturer on youth ministry and character formation. Her books include Sex and the Teenager: Choices and Decisions, a teachers' manual and student text on adolescent relationships and sexuality.
Kathie Amidei
is Pastoral Associate for Lifelong Faith Formation at St. Anthony Parish in Pewaukee, WI. Formerly the Associate Director of Child Ministry and Catechetics for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, she has many years of experience in family-based religious education programs.
Peggy Kober
The authors also wish to acknowledge the contribution of Peggy Kober who did the foundational work of creating this website, and of gathering and maintaining a Team of Facilitators for the Learning about L.I.F.E. program in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Peggy continues to facilitate the L.I.F.E. sessions as well as facilitating Dialogue Circles that deal with non-violence in crisis situations.
