Raising Your Jewish/Christian Child

Raising Your Jewish/Christian Child
Author: Lee F. Gruzen
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-07-23
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781557044143

In this completely revised, second edition of the “thoughtful and pioneering guide” (Library Journal), Lee Gruzen tackles the problems and challenges of blending both Jewish and Christian faiths into the lives of children of interfaith marriages. Based on hundreds of interviews, as well as the author’s extensive research and personal experience, this acclaimed book discusses many issues important to interfaith families: talking with children about God, planning ceremonies, celebrating holidays, establishing healthy relationships with grandparents, developing a sense of self and belonging, and more. Written with honesty and warmth, it offers a wealth of insight into the complicated feelings and loyalties that parents, children, grandparents, and clergy bring to the subject of raising Jewish/Christian children.

If I'm Jewish and You're Christian, what are the Kids?

If I'm Jewish and You're Christian, what are the Kids?
Author: Andrea King
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1993
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Tracks the development of two composite families through the lifecycle process and compares how the manage challenges.

Inside Intermarriage

Inside Intermarriage
Author: Jim Keen
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780874419863

Explore the challenges and blessings of interfaith families. For couples of different faiths, navigating issues of marriage and child-rearing add a layer of complexity on the road to happily ever after. Inside Intermarriage is Jim Keen's personal journal as the Christian partner in an interfaith marriage. From deciding to have a Jewish wedding, to raising his children Jewish, to learning about a new culture while maintaining his own religious identity, Keen's candid exploration of the challenges and opportunities offers comfort and strategies to couples starting down a similar road. Complete with stories of other interfaith families, and a discussion guide to help couples consider how to resolve dilemmas around holiday celebrations and family relationships, Inside Intermarriage offers a warm, humorous, and ultimately hopeful message about the power of family connection.

Raising a Child with Soul

Raising a Child with Soul
Author: Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1429948922

With the seemingly insurmountable pressures placed on families today, many parents lack the spiritual foundation and practical knowledge to chart a clear-cut course in child-rearing. Parents question whether nurturing their children's souls is even possible in the fast-paced materialistic culture in which we live. Utilizing the insight that springs from her knowledge of Torah wisdom, her personal experiences and the experiences of those she has counseled, Slovie Jungreis-Wolff, a longtime parenting coach and advisor to young couples and families teaches in detail how to approach the entire gamut of issues, with a special emphasis on strengthening the child's morality and character. Parents will learn how to: • Instill simchas hachayim, "true joy," in their children • Value chessed, kindness, in a self-absorbed world • Create a mikdash me'at, a home filled with calm and reflection • Teach children gratitude and appreciation • And much more... From discipline to sibling rivalry to effective communication skills, Raising a Child with Soul offers unique concepts and pragmatic ideas that can be understood and applied to both Jewish and non-Jewish households.

Jewish Spiritual Parenting

Jewish Spiritual Parenting
Author: Rabbi Paul Kipnes
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1580238211

Spiritually nourishing approaches to help you become more insightful, inspired parents and raise soulfully engaged children. Kipnes and November share their hard-won parenting techniques and spirit-filled activities, rituals and prayers to help you cultivate strong Jewish values and cherished spiritual memories in your own family.

How to be a Jewish Parent

How to be a Jewish Parent
Author: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780805241709

Author Diamant joins with family therapist Kushner draw from many sources to describe the practices, customs, and values that go into creating a Jewish home. They share their own and other parents' stories and observations, combine insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary developmental thinking about how children learn and grow, give creative, practical answers to many questions, provide guidance on how to foster Jewish decision making for children of all ages, describe how to make your home a "Jewish space," and explain the importance of synagogue membership, holiday celebrations, community service, and other family activities.

Interfaith Families

Interfaith Families
Author: Jane Kaplan
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781596270114

As the number of Jewish-Christian marriages in America continue to rise, couples find themselves searching for ways to reconcile love and religion. Even when each partner has no particular religious life, they are confronted with related conflicts. Should children be raised in one faith and not the other? Who decides which holidays to celebrate and how? How can couples deal with extended family members who may not understand or accept their interfaith marriage? Readers will find and array of reactions and approaches as the couples profiled in this book describe how they tacked these topics. Each personal narrative offers fresh insight into interfaith families by giving examples of the successes and failures, struggles and triumphs of everyday situations and major life decisions.

Raising Kids to Love Being Jewish

Raising Kids to Love Being Jewish
Author: Doron Kornbluth
Publisher: Khal Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781602040151

You want kids who feel great about themselves and love being Jewish...You want them to be happy and excited about Jewish activities...You want them to be outgoing and enthusiastic about Judaism...and frankly, you're not quite sure how to make this all happen. Book jacket.

Mamaleh Knows Best

Mamaleh Knows Best
Author: Marjorie Ingall
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0804141428

We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: Hectoring, guilt-inducing, clingy as a limpet. In Mamaleh Knows Best, Tablet Magazine columnist Marjorie Ingall smashes this tired trope with a hammer. Blending personal anecdotes, humor, historical texts, and scientific research, Ingall shares Jewish secrets for raising self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. She offers abundant examples showing how Jewish mothers have nurtured their children’s independence, fostered discipline, urged a healthy distrust of authority, consciously cultivated geekiness and kindness, stressed education, and maintained a sense of humor. These time-tested strategies have proven successful in a wide variety of settings and fields over the vast span of history. But you don't have to be Jewish to cultivate the same qualities in your own children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not produce a Nobel Prize winner (or hey, you might), but you'll definitely get a great human being.