The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents: A New Interpretation

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Summary: Beautifully written
Review: At last, parenting without guilt. Helps parent's reconcile their inevitable mistakes. Great advice for parents regardless of the age of their children. The book is beautifully written. It has an uncommonly attractive cover and design for a paperback book.

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Summary: excellent !!!
Review: Bill Martain has once again shared the wisdom of a self centered soul. Having attended many of his lectures, I'm glad to see him share his ideas in print. Very useful advice on teaching a child to be a caring thoughtful citizen.

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Summary: Indispensable
Review: Ever since I became a father about one year ago, I've been reading voratiously on the subject(s) of parenting, fatherhood, etc. This is an absolutely wonderful and indispensable book!!! It should be made a required reading for every parent aspiring to create, raise and live in a happy and healthy household. Its pages burst with wisdom and deeply felt insights without being esoteric... If I owned a hotel, I'd put this book in every room and/or give it as a gift in the nation's baby delivery rooms...

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Summary: I really love this book
Review: I really love this book. It is simple, like a cup of coffee in the morning and doesn't require that I apply each chapter to the raising of my children like a course in Parenting 101. I feel the author William Martin understood I was searching for an inner understanding, not more rules for parenting that can be so hard to obey because they only work once. It seems to be a real challenge to raise our children, keeping them safe, all the while being aware of the subtle difference between teaching and controlling. I have often found myself questioning my decision to become a parent, a job I cannot walk away from. After reading this book, I have started to understand where the real parent in me resides and she's a lot stronger, and frankly, a lot more fun than I had given her credit for.

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Summary: I really love this book
Review: I really love this book. It is simple, like a cup of coffee in the morning and doesn't require that I apply each chapter to the raising of my children like a course in Parenting 101. I feel the author William Martin understood I was searching for an inner understanding, not more rules for parenting that can be so hard to obey because they only work once. It seems to be a real challenge to raise our children, keeping them safe, all the while being aware of the subtle difference between teaching and controlling. I have often found myself questioning my decision to become a parent, a job I cannot walk away from. After reading this book, I have started to understand where the real parent in me resides and she's a lot stronger, and frankly, a lot more fun than I had given her credit for.

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Summary: Simply Spiritual
Review: I recently read about this book in Oprah Winfrey's magazine (September issue of "O") and thought it might be a nice gift for my brother and his new wife- as they are thinking about taking on the gift of children. I picked up the book and flipped through it with the intent of putting it in the mail immediately... then I couldn't stop reading. Each short and simple chapter was like a drink of cool, refreshing water. I have no intention of giving up this copy (autographed) so I'm planning on buying several more as gifts to all of my friends. I also picked up "The Couple's Tao Te Ching" by William Martin. That is going on my gift list, also.

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Summary: nice thought
Review: It is a nice book of little essays, poems and general thoughts. It doesn't really provide any direction or substance just nice sentiments. If you want some inspirational thoughts it is a good book but if you want practical advice try another book.

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Summary: Best Parenting Book On The Market
Review: Some friends of mine suggested I read this book because I was feeling so inaequate as a parent. This book shed a whole new prospective on parenting for me, even though it is ancient philosophy. The thoughts and idieas are so basic yet, they are very thought provoking. I highly reccomend any one who is a parent or is about to be a parent, to buy the book.

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Summary: Helps To Stay Centered as a Parent
Review: The 2,500 year old tao te ching is a mysterious book to read and then put down and make it your own truth. If you care to apply the original to one thing or another, that is fine. But should it be fit to a pop culture "modern parenting"? I do not think so.

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Summary: another example of not the tao te ching
Review: The 2,500 year old tao te ching is a mysterious book to read and then put down and make it your own truth. If you care to apply the original to one thing or another, that is fine. But should it be fit to a pop culture "modern parenting"? I do not think so.