Book review: Why Children Matter by Douglas Wilson

The sixteenth book I read in 2019 was Why Children Matter by Douglas Wilson.  This book is poorly titled; you wouldn't necessarily guess from the cover that it is a book on parenting.

There is little that is groundbreaking in this book, but Wilson's writing style is engaging and appealing.  He writes from a counterculturally Christian perspective, in which the burden is not on the child to obey but on the parent to imitate Christ and so, like Paul, provide a model for the child to imitate.  His message boils down to, "Love God, love what you are doing, and love the people God gave you to do it with."