Teaching Your Children About God: A Modern Jewish Approach
Convinced that "a spiritual education is as important to a full life as an intellectual and emotional education," Wolpe, a rabbi and the author of In Speech and Silence ( LJ 9/15/92), offers a sensitive and informed guide to explaining God to children from ages four to 14. He asserts that "belief in God affects self-esteem, and searching for God together can help draw a family close." Questions about God come "fast and furious" from young children: questions about who and what God is, what God expects of us, how we can reach God, and why seemingly senseless things happen despite God's existence. While David Heller's Talking to Your Child About God ( LJ 12/88) covers much of the same ground, Wolpe directs himself specifically to Jews and is particularly eloquent in his spiritual insight and explication. Highly recommended.- Marcia Welsh, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.