Raising kids to be socially conscious and embrace strong values can be difficult in today's world. In Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference, mother, counselor, and family-life educator Susan Vogt sets out to inspire, equip, and comfort parents in the awesome task of raising Catholic kids who will make positive contributions to our world. Using a delightful blend of honesty and humor, Vogt offers successful parenting strategies and straightforward discussions on important issues such as sexuality, substance abuse, materialism, racism, global awareness, and death.

Susan V. Vogt is the director of the Family Ministry Office of the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky. She presents workshops around the world in connection with the Parenting for Peace and Justice Network. She is the author of Just Family Nights and a co-author of Kids Creating Circles of Peace. She and her husband, Jim, are the parents of four children.

Vogt writes with a delightful blend of wry humor, candor, and sensitive self-revelation. The section in each chapter written by Vogt’s children on her efforts to be a responsible parent adds to the fun and practical value of this book.

—Joe H. Leonard, director, family ministries
and human sexuality, National Council of the
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

This is one of the most creative and engaging books that I’ve read in a long time. The author and the entire Vogt family speak through its pages, offering us their hard-earned treasures of parenting and being parented.

—H. Richard McCord, executive director,
Committee on Marriage and Family, U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops

"With both passion and compassion, Vogt speaks honestly about the trials of raising children to be courageous moral agents, eager to improve the world they live in. Although the book is informed by Vogt’s Roman Catholic perspective, it has an ecumenical, open feel.

—Religion Bookline from Publishers Weekly

...Vogt develops her thinking...and relates it to include enhancing its development in her children. She writes in such a comfortable manner, you get the feeling more like you’re sitting on the sofa chatting, rather than reading text.

—Renee Colclough Hinson, Executive Director, A.C.M.E. (Association for Couples in Marriage Enrichment)

In a courageous move she squeezes the fruits of her labor- her kids -for their reflections and opinions on her parenting from her real life perspective. Ms. Vogt’s genuine appreciation for diversity and truth is revealed as she also shares opinions and advice of other parents and kids from different economic, education, geographic, and religious backgrounds.

—The Messenger, Diocese of Covington

Vogt is a woman with guts and integrity. She wrote a book about raising kids and she allowed her daughter to have the last word in each chapter! And she invites her other kids to put their two cents in, too. This book is filled with great ideas for families to chew on together.

—Tom McGrath, At Home With Our Faith

Susan Vogt understands and affirms that parenting offers no easy "rules for success" and no guarantees. What she offers are sound, practical, real-world ideas for parents who want to raise caring, responsible, independent children in a society that encourages selfishness and conformity.

—Disciples World