Product Description
Blessings and Baby Steps charts the spiritual journey of parenthood from pregnancy through preschool. Author Rabbi Ilana Grinblat's interweaves her personal experiences with those of friends, congregants, and mentors as well as with tales from Jewish tradition. Each short (2-4 pages), breezily told chapter offers a new insight from a particular moment of parenting and highlights a quality that this stage nourishes.

CONTENTS:

Six sections guide the parent on a spiritual journey from conception through the four-year-old child.

I. Pregnancy and Birth

II. The First Year

III. The Wondrous Ones

IV. The Tremendous Twos

V. The Thrilling Threes

VI. The Formidable Fours

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Includes blessings for children from the Jewish tradition

Each chapter offers relevant, bite-size text study

USES:

Essential reading for new parents, grand-parents, and caregivers

Makes a great gift on the birth of a baby, for Mother's Day, and as a thank you

Provides rich topics for sermons, text study, and welcome addresses to congregants

Ideal for parenting classes