What Not to Expect: A Meditation on the Spirituality of Parenting

by Keith W. Frome

In What Not to Expect , Dr. Keith W. Frome takes us through dozens of things families experience every day--winning and losing, eating, falling down, pooping--and shows how each of these things catch... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824522826
• ISBN13: 9780824522827
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

brilliant

This is a great book. Simply great. I don't have time to read a lot of popular books, but I read this because a friend recommended it. What's great about it is that Dr. Frome brings you into the stories he's talking about. You feel like you've lived them and learned from them. I thought the story about Albert Brooks and "pooping" was very funny, and the story about a grandmother who had to move from her beloved house was a great insight into how perceptive little kids can be. I don't know if this book will make me a better person, but at least I feel like I want to try to be, and that's a start.

What Every Parent Should Read

Dr. Frome's book is not loud, easy or obvious which separates it from the rest of the parent advice book pack. If everyone took the path of parental reverence suggested by this book, our children would be a lot more rooted and our fellow parents would be a lot more fulfilled. Mixing anecdote with theology and poetry and philosophy, Dr. Frome shows us a lens through which the everyday becomes marvelous.