Anyone who cares for children needs to attend to the essential message of this book: that the first two years are the most crucial time in a child's education and development, and that children learn to be healthy by living with healthy adults. This is not your run of the mill parenting book. The book has a common sense appeal, but offer no sweet consolation to those who are unwilling to make their parenting responsibilities a top priority in their lives.
This book contains dozens of teaching stories from many religious traditions — including Zen, Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism and Hinduism — rendered with a twist of humour, irony or provocation by contemporary spiritual teacher Lee Lozowick. These Zen Stories will typically confound the mind and challenge any conventional seriousness about the spiritual path. In essence, however, they hold what every traditional teaching story has always held — the ...