Lighting Their Fires：How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

"TheNewYorkTimes"BestsellingAuthorOf"TeachLikeYourHair'SOnFire"SharesHisProvenMethodsForCreatingCompassionateChildrenDuringTwenty-FiveYearsOfTeachingAtHobartElementarySchoolInInnerCityLosAngeles,RafeEsquithHasHelpedThousandsOfChildrenMaxi-MizeTheirPotential--AndBecameTheOnlyTeacherInHistoryToReceiveThePresident'SNationalMedalOfArts.In"LightingTheirFires,"EsquithTranslatesTheInspiringMethodsFrom"TeachLikeYourHair'SOnFire"ForParents.UsingLessonsFramedByAClassTripToADodgersGame,HeMovesInningByInningThroughConceptsThatExplainHowToTeachChildrenToBeThoughtfulAndHonorablePeople--AsWellAsSuccessfulStudents--AndToHaveFunInTheProcess.