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Dr. Shefali Tsabary: “Children Are Our Greatest Mirrors” | Oprah’s Lifeclass | Oprah Winfrey Network

By Oprah Winfrey — 2014

Shefali, a mom of two young children, says her children's refusal to listen during bath time triggers something within her that makes her feel frustrated and disrespected. This nightly ritual, which she says should be fun, often ends in yelling.Parenting expert and author Dr. See more...

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The Latest Parenting Trend–Radical Amazement

The 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel writes often about “radical amazement,” that sense of “wow” about the world, as the root of spirituality.

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Parenting as a Spiritual Practice

There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.

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Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting

Every day, parents are bombarded by demands. The pressures of work and life are relentless; our children’s needs are often impossible to meet; and we rarely, if ever, allow ourselves the time and attention necessary to satisfy our own inner longings.

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