WILLIAM MARTIN“Ita rate thing when someone is able to
improve on a classic—not only improve it
but wrap it in ribbons and offer it asa gift
to the modern world It requires a man of
rare wisdom, insight, and heart. Bill
‘Martin is such a man and The Parents Tao Te
Ghing is such a book. Not since The Tao of
something so practical, gentle, and good.”
fram the foreword by Daw MILA,
author of Way of th Pac Warrior
freshly reinterpreted them to speak directly and
clearly to the most difiult of modern tasks—
parenting. With its combination of free verse
and judicious, psychologically discerning advice,
The Parents Tao Te Ching addresses the great
‘themes that permeate the Tao and that under-
score Loving parent-child relationships: respond-
‘ng without judgment, emufating natura
processes, and balancing between doing and
being. An invigorating alternative to advice
‘books that admonish parents with countess
“should” and “outs,” The Parents Teo Te Ching
thas the hallmarks of a classe,
THE PARENT'S
Tao TE CHINGTHE PARENT'S
Tao TE CHING
A NEW INTERPRETATION
ANCIENT ADVICE
FOR
MODERN PARENTS
By WILLIAM MARTIN
FoREwoRD By DAN MILLMAN
ILLUSTRATIONS bY HANK TUSINSKI