The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents by William Martin, Hank Tusinski (Illustrator), Dan Millman (Foreword by)

From the Publisher

William C. Martin has freshly reinterpreted the Tao Te Ching to speak directly and clearly to the most difficult of modern tasks -- parenting. With its combination of free verse and judicious advice, The Parent's Tao Te Ching addresses the great themes that permeate the Tao and that support loving parent- child relationships: responding without judgment, emulating natural processes, and balancing between doing and being.

O Magazine - Oprah Winfrey

I give all my friends with children The Parent's Tao Te Ching by William Martin - a reminder of what matters when raising little ones.

What People Are Saying

Deng Ming-Dao
William Martin shows how the universal lessons of Taoism can be applied to parenthood. In the process, he not only sheds light on the most sacred of tasks we face, but he also works to bring peace and understanding to a coming generation.
— Author of The Chronicles of Tao, 365 Tao, and Everyday Tao

Virginia Beane Rutter
I loved William Martin's The Parent's Tao Te Ching. Advocating patience, compassion, simplicity, and parental awareness, these ancient lessons allow mothers and fathers to quietly reflect on their own selfhood, then to see and respond to their children's authentic selves. Every parent should keep this book on their bedside table to read and re-read as they negotiate the tumultuous reality of family life.
—Jungian analyst and author of Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters

Judy Ford
A masterpiece. William Martin captures the essence of what it means to raise a child. Urgently needed, this precious book lifts parenting to new heights.
—Author of Wonderful Ways to Love a Child and Wonderful Ways to Be a Family

Will Glennon
If ever there was an undertaking that could use every bit of ancient wisdom available it is parenting, and William Martin's The Parent's Tao Te Ching consistently and elegantly brings us back to the beautiful depths of this most honored role.
—Author of Fathering and 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem

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