Parenting with Fire: Lighting Up the Family with Passion and Inspiration

by Shmuley Boteach

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451219775
• ISBN13: 9780451219770
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: New American Library
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Wish i had this book earlier

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK..IT IS SO EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND. ITS WORTH THE FULL PRICE. HIS TIPS WORKS AND HE SPEAKS FROM EXPERIENCE NOT FROM A PHD ....YOU WILL ENJOY THIS BOOK AND THEN PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS.

Highly recommended for ALL parents

I love this book and the philosophy of Rabbi Schmuley is so inspiring and really right on. I'm grateful to have stumbled onto his writing and his television show. He really can get to the heart of parenting issues, that it's so much more about the parents when the kids are having problems. It's a hard fact to face sometimes, and way more than many thought they were bargaining for when they planned a family. If mamy more families applied the wisdom of this book, I think we'd find such a better world around us.

Awesome!! Full of Passionate and Inspirational Truths

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

totally inspirational

I love this book. I have a new baby and cannot wait to put into practice the philosophy he outlines of inspired parenting. He gives some really cool examples of activities he does with his children.

I'm grateful for the guidance

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.