Teaching Your Children about God

Many parents find it easier to talk to their children about sex and other intimate matters than to answer questions about God prayer good and evil. In fact parents may feel they don't know the answers to such questions for themselves much less for their young children. In <em>Teaching Your Children About God </em> Rabbi David Wolpe shows Jewish parents how to openly explore the idea of God with their children. Through poignant anecdotes and practical exercises Wolpe teaches how parents can guide children in the practice of prayer and create an atmosphere in which children feel comfortable questioning and wondering about God life and death. Wolpe also offers invaluable insights into children's spiritual needs reveals the powerful effect faith can have on a child's self-esteem and enables parents to understand their children's fears dreams and hopes. Perhaps most important this wise and potentially life-changing book shows parents who may feel something missing In their own spiritual lives that it is possible to nourish their own souls even as they nurture their children's.</p>