This updated edition of the classic parenting book combinesinsights from Jewish tradition with contemporary thinking about howchildren learn and grow. And it describes the practices, customs,and values that go into creating a Jewish home and raising joyfulchildren within the rich traditions of Judaism.
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Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot ofparents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time heis 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around withdrugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell.Confronted with his growing recklessness and defiance, his mother,the poet Deborah Digges, decides to try to accept Stephen on hisown terms--a course that stuns her family and leads to the breakupof her second marriage. Digges “shadows” him on his late-nightforays so that she can understand his world, welcomes his gang intotheir apartment, and tries to see life through his eyes. When shediscovers that children who are devoted to animals have an easiertime forming attachments to other people, she fills their home witha menagerie of ailing or abandoned pets. She also turns to anunconventional therapist who offers unusual — but helpful —treatment. The Stardust Lounge isn’t your usual story of rebelliousadolescence. The power of Digges’s memoi
