Interview With Howard Shapiro, A Children Textbook Author
I nterviewed Howard Shapiro on Oct 24 2006
Q: What are you working on immediately?
Now I am marketing my Hanukkah textbook for the 2nd year
and trying to receive my anti-bullying textbook into schools, foundations etc.
After the aboriginal of the year, I am planning to begin assignment on my third
textbook “Hockey Time’s” which I achievement to accept outside in Oct, 2007.
Q: Impart us approximately your two books?
My aboriginal textbook was published in Oct, 2005. It is called “Hanukkah
Counts Also!” and the premise is that there are a brother (Tom) and a
sister (Tupelo) who are each eight age aged and they alive in a
predominately non-Jewish world and they are bombarded by Christmas images, shows, movies etc. And Tupelo, questions why they accept to be altered and why Santa can’t bring her a tree or presents. She runs upstairs on the aboriginal after dark of Hanukkah however has a heart-to-heart speak with her older cousin and after the speak she comes to apprehend that Hanukkah is an valuable holiday and that it things (and counts) also.
My fresh textbook which was released on Sep 12th, is called “Destructo
Boy & Spillerella…We Are Who We Are!” and it is an anti-bullying
adventure. It again involves Tom and Tupelo, who are life bullied by a ample fourth grader. Aboriginal the bully starts picking on Tom and then Tupelo and Tom has a chat with his Dad who reminds him that he has force and courage that he doesn’t much understand he has. When the bully starts picking on Tupelo, and Tom sees the aching in her eyes and face, he puts his foot down and tells the bully that his text and actions don’t affair and will not aching he or Tupelo any added.
Q: Top five tips for raising kids:
1. Parents accept to assignment as a aggregation: I accept that this is the real figure one gratuity for raising kids. The Parents must be in sync with each other and include each other on household tasks. Exceptionally when the minor or children are one to three age aged. The household tasks love doing the laundry, the dishes, emptying the trash, balancing the chequebook and paying the bills can be overwhelming so those tasks must be divided up and the parents accept to Assignment at life acceptable teammates.
2. Accomplish age for yourself. If it’s going to a film by yourself
or aloof walking encircling the mall or going to a athletic fact, couples
charge to accomplish some thing to receive them outside of the home for a short size of age.
3. Timetable at least one time after dark a month. While it helps to
recharge one’s batteries doing something solo, couple’s should accomplish age once a month to receive outside and look a film or accept dinner or simply amuse outside of the home and be calm at least once a month.
4. Be price and means concious. Everyone wants to accomplish their kids
cheerful however the $50 or $75 that is spent on a holiday allowance or outfit that will be thrown in the closet never to look the blaze of time could be bigger used by life lay in the bank or towards a school education fund. When I affirm means concious I beggarly that the husband and wife should lay off luxury purchases and agnate purchases love fresh furniture, drapes a bigger automobile etc. in lieu of saving means for the childs education.
5. Accumulate matters “much” between the husband and wife’s families. What
I beggarly is that provided you accept to accomplish two Thanksgiving stops, accomplish it. Provided
the wife’s brobdingnagian is watching the kids one after dark, buzz the husband’s
brobdingnagian to analog watch them the abutting age. Care both families on an much bottom will accomplish wonders for the husband and wife in their accord and won’t account any friction with their families. Provided one side is life also agressive or bossy, it is the husband or wife’s obligation to impart them to back off, it’s for the better acceptable of THEIR marriage/accord and in the children’s interst to accumulate matters as much as imaginable between the families.
Q: Where can we acquisition outside approximately your books and website?
I accept a website, .howardshapiro.catch and my books are both available on Amazon.com. Again, copies can be ordered directly from me and I will autograph each write. Both books price $8.95. For added advice, please mail an email to howard.shapirohotmail.com or activity to .howardshapiro.catch
Q: Something bodies must understand approximately you.
Aloof that I assignment actually dense at the entire “matter” or writing and
marketing my books and that I cherish feedback from bodies who accept glance at
them. As Louis Ferdinand Celine said “when you address, you should lay your skin on the table” and I actually accept this and desire my books to accomplish a aberration to someone or advice them in some action, much provided it’s aloof for a second. That, and I again accept that we are all capable of greatness in all that we accomplish and we should strive for that.