Raising a Loving Family

Essential Guidance from the Talks and Wisdom of Rabbi Shimon Russell

By: Zalman Goldstein

Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Drawn from more than 30 years of research, talks, and wisdom of the world-renowned parenting, marriage, and educational expert Rabbi Shimon Russell, this rich repository of foundational parenting psychology and practical, down-to-earth guidance will help set you on the way to create loving and enduring bonds with your children.

Applicable for those parenting all ages and stages, it will help you navigate the challenges of raising children in today’s turbulent times, maintain clear emotions and sound reasoning when your family needs you most, and create a deeply loving marriage from which to do so.

Includes: "The Journey of Parenting", "Raising a Loving Family", "The Home Environment", "Shalom Bayis", "The World of Emotions", "Schooling and Education", "Crisis Chinuch", "Creating a Support Network", "Inspiration and Encouragement".

"This book should be in every home!" (Rabbi Dr. Benzion Twerski, PhD)

“Contains a wealth of information!” (Sarah Chana Radcliffe, MEd, CPsych)

“An extraordinarily valuable book!” (Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky)

“I love this book and highly recommend it!” (Rabbi Shais Taub)

“This book is outstanding!” (Dr. David J. Lieberman, PhD)

“This book is timely, important, and a must-read!” (Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson)

©2022 Zalman Goldstein (P)2022 Zalman Goldstein

great for nowadays parents

if you have difficulty understanding the difference between how you were educated and guided few decades ago and what's needed in the new reality of the current day and age listed to this masterpiece of parenting advice.

Guilt inducing and no creativity in solutions offered.

This book started good for me, but as I was progressing in it, I felt like was an intense use of guilt inducing words and ideas for how much we are messing up our children life. Lost of detrimental words to describe how we, the care givers and/ or parents are hurting our kids without explaining the “why”. There’s plenty of examples of what we should not do, and they are all quite obvious, but not that much of examples of what we should do in specific situations, and how can we possibly repair. There are many books that offer a repair, but this book makes you feel like you are a criminal parent if you don’t control your emotions at all times and how traumatic it is to your kids (which again, truly trivial and obvious…but where it the actual positive solutions?!?)

It is an example of how going to a theta can be completely ineffective, the fact that it was written by a therapist doesn’t mean it’s an effective book.

The idea of kindness and compassion are not new, and also have nothing to do with Judaism.
I was expecting to read about solutions that can compliment my religious beliefs.
The book contains many phrases in Hebrew that no person that doesn’t speak Hebrew will understand, which is also kinda wired and upsetting.