Ph. D. David Heller Livres

The 200 Most Important Things Kids Need To Know About Life is a collection of philosophy, wisdom and compelling maxims about all the big subjects in life. For both parents and children, the experience of reading the book is like taking a course in "Life 101" Among the salient topics addressed love, friendship, the genders, the parent-child relationship, siblings, selfishness, honesty, integrity, compassion, achievement, morality and spirituality, education, competition, making one's way in the world, being your own person, developing your values, finding your identity, and much, much more. These compelling excerpts reflect the breadth and diversity of subjects that the book Thoughtfulness to others is a gift you give to yourself. Being flexible is not only a quality of rubber bands; it's useful for people too. All of the different races and cultures of the world may be nature's way of drawing and coloring. There is no such thing as excelling at something without practice - and lots of it. A boy is an aspiring man in search of a roadmap for how to be one. A girl is a woman in the making who needs some help with some finishing touches.

"When Will My Heart Stop Hurting?" is a healing and inspirational book about divorce intended to help a parent recover themselves and be as responsive as possible to his or her children during and after the upheaval of divorce. Brimming with pragmatic and sagacious advice about all aspects of the divorce experience, this easy-to-read compendium will help guide the reader to a more peaceful place with regard to divorce and enhance their ability to facilitate healing and growth in their children. "When Will My Heart Stop Hurting?" addresses particularly difficult topics around marital dissolution, custody, and subsequent changes in family life. Among the subjects this thoughtful and helpful book concentrates on are the following: the nature of divorce, difficult dilemmas in divorce, what it means to work together with your ex-spouse (even when it isn't easy), what you can do emotionally and psychologically for your child, and finding spiritual understanding in the aftermath of divorce. Here are a few sample selections: "A child ordinarily feels that his or her world is turned upside down in divorce. The heroic challenge for you as a parent is to help the world seem right side up again." "With every loss, there is a gain and new things of value are discovered. Teach your child that this paradox is even true of divorce." "Inspire your son or daughter to think of 'family' as a feeling inside of them, not merely a living situation."

IN SEARCH OF GOD is a powerful book brimming with wisdom and food-for-thought concerning our images and notions of a deity. It is organized in terms of these compelling motifs: issues of faith and doubt, our concepts of God in the universe, our views of God as manifested in the relationships among people, and our beliefs about the presence of God within ourselves. This book inspires the reader to take his or her own faith more seriously, and to travel farther spiritually in order to refl ect on what it means to believe in God. Here are a few sample excerpts: "As we kneel in awe at the mystery of God, we stand in awe at the mystery of the self." "There is a library in your mind that stores all kinds of information about God -- including epiphanies." "God is many things.....Forgiveness must be one of them." "There is majesty and honor in doing a sincere favor; the hand of God is in that favor." "A universal God may be our fi nal port of call -- but a destination that helps us understand the entire voyage."