Parenting With Fire: Lighting Up the Family with Passion and Inspiration [Paperback]

Shmuley Boteach (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 5, 2006

A unique parenting manifesto from one of America's most provocative personalities.

According to Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex and host of TLC's Shalom in the Home, transmitting passions, motivating children with shared goals, and getting them excited about values are the most important things any parent can do. With great humor and insight, Boteach shows parents how to take their child to life's mountaintop-and create a parent-child bond based on vitality, exuberance, and mutual respect.

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About the Author

Shmuley Boteach is the star of the weekly television series Shalom in the Home. He lives with his wife and eight children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: NAL Trade; 1 edition (September 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451219775
• ISBN-13: 978-0451219770
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #811,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is one of the world's leading relationship experts and spiritual authorities. His twenty-one books have been bestsellers in seventeen languages, and his award winning syndicated column is read by a global audience of millions. He is the host of TLC's award-winning Shalom in the Home and was Oprah Winfrey's love, marriage, and parenting expert on Oprah and Friends. He served for eleven years as rabbi at Oxford University, where he built the Oxford L'Chaim Society into the University's second largest student organization. Today, Newsweek calls him the most famous rabbi in America. The winner of the highly prestigious London Times Preacher of the Year award, Rabbi Shmuley is also the recipient of the National Fatherhood Award and the American Jewish Press Association's Highest Award for Excellence in Commentary. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debbie, and their nine children.

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Good!, October 31, 2006

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Phyllis Sommer "Reading Rabbi" (Highwood, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parenting With Fire: Lighting Up the Family with Passion and Inspiration (Paperback)

I have read many parenting books, and I read this one because I was intriguted by the title...Passion is indeed one of the things that seems to be missing in the young people with whom I interact. I wasn't sure what to expect from Shmuley but I was pleaseantly surprised by the readablity and strength of the writing and content.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with the pressures of modern life on their family. It gives real-life advice for real-life families.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm grateful for the guidance, February 12, 2007

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Hiasun "Hiasun" (Hilo, HI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Parenting With Fire: Lighting Up the Family with Passion and Inspiration (Paperback)

This book included the guidance I've been looking for. Each of the five sections gave me something concrete to take away and apply. I didn't have to complete the entire book before I could begin applying new meaning to the relationship(s) with my family. I saw an immediate change in myself, and my family that increased with each new section. This is a book that I will KEEP in my personal library for many years to come, and one that I would appreciate having in print for some time, so that I could share it with my brothers/sisters, friends, and children when they come-of-age to have their own families. This is one of those books, I would run to the store to buy for anyone starting a new family.

Thank you for sharing yourself and your perspective with others.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!! Full of Passionate and Inspirational Truths, April 22, 2007

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C. Stephans - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Parenting With Fire: Lighting Up the Family with Passion and Inspiration (Paperback)

Boteach writes a tremendous and profound book for parents. "Parenting with Fire" fully lives up to its title. It presents not only parenting methods but an entire way of life that clashes with today's culture that pulls parents in every direction and divides families.

Boteach writes that "a lack of passion characterizes the new American parenting tradition, and so an uninspired life has become our principal legacy to our children, just as it was our parents' legacy to us." He goes about teaching a parent's duty to his or her children. He explains his philosophy of a parents' role as "PLANT"...1. Protection 2. Love, 3. Activity 4. Novelty 5. Tradition. It is a meaningul and relevant approach to parenting that leads the parent to focus his or her energies on the child above all else in life.

Boteach writes that the road back to inspired parenting and an inspired life is spending more time with your children. He has first hand experience of developing an inspired parenting child as the father of 8 children. He shares many helpful experiences of his family and from his work with other families.

This book is helpful to turn your focus of parenting where it should be and to adjust your parenting approach to one that is inspirational and passionate and will have lasting positive effects for your family.

I highly recommend this for parents.

Author of Shakespeare On Spirituality: Life-Changing Wisdom from Shakespeare's Plays