Living Passages for the Whole Family: Celebrating Rites of Passage from Birth to Adulthood

by Shea Darian

A ground-breaking resource for creating contemporary rites of passage in the family from birth to adulthood... for parents, grandparents, mentors, counselors, and educators of all faiths. Creative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967571324
• ISBN13: 9780967571324
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Gilead Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Invaluable and sage wisdom and advice for parents who don't want to let go

As one ages towards adulthood, each passing year comes with great changes, each passing year marks new rights, privileges, and responsibilities. "Living Passages for the Whole Family: Celebrating Rites of Passage from Birth to Adulthood" is a year by year examination of peoples' traditional rites of passage such as birthdays, bar'mitzvahs and secular versions of festivals such as that. Over twenty ideas to celebrate ones child marching toward adulthood with thirty songs to celebrate with, along with invaluable and sage wisdom and advice for parents who don't want to let go, among other information. "Living Passages for the Whole Family: Celebrating Rites of Passage from Birth to Adulthood" is highly recommended for community library collections focusing on parenting.

Astonishing Book!

This book could change the world for the better, helping us to reconnect with ourselves, our families and our communities. Written in a very warm, thoughtful and intelligent manner, with many ideas for helping us all along the journey of our lives. A wonderful book!

Searching for meaning...found it in this book!

If you feel that everyday life isn't quite as you hoped it would be or you are searching for meaning and depth in life, then this book is for you. Simply by celebrating each others passages, birthdays and changes, we can see more wonder, light and love in each other. Thank you, Shea!