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| Protecting Your Teen from Today's Witchcraft: A Parent's Guide to Confronting Wicca and the Occult | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Russo
Publisher: Bethany House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1145330
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Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0764201352
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.513
EAN: 9780764201356
ASIN: 0764201352
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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Product Description
Teens are in search of spiritual answers, but adults can't make them believe in God--teens today want to discover their own answers. Protecting Your Teens From Today's Witchcraft gives parents the hard facts about Wicca, tips on recognizing its influence in a teen's life, and solid, practical advice for guiding their kids in the right direction while still allowing them to come to their own conclusions.
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 Funny huh? November 28, 2005
38 out of 46 found this review helpful
I wonder how the Christian community would feel if a Pagan wrote, "Protecting Your Teen from Today's Christianity"?
Want justification for your closed mind?...this book is for you February 26, 2006
33 out of 41 found this review helpful
Russo is passionate about reaching his audience--fundamentalist Christians---but the passion ultimately creates a non-scholarly book. It only plays on people's emotions.
In order to produce his thesis, Russo only regurgitates fear and stereotypes onto paper. His book is nothing more than the power of suggestion to people who don't have accurate information.
He believes that earth-based religions are bad only because they differ from what he is personally already familiar with. Oddly, he does not consider how such an attitude could then be used to `examine' ANY religion, including his own. I doubt he would be appreciative of being stereotyped.
People looking for real answers about Wicca and Witchcraft will assume that Russo knows what he is talking about---when this is far from the case. The extensive misinformation in this book would damage intra-family relations much more.
However, realizing that some readers of this book had opened it wanting genuine answers about the activities of their family, I am recommending an alternative. "When Someone You Love Is Wiccan: A Guide to Witchcraft and Paganism for Concerned Friends, Nervous Parents, and Curious Co-Workers" by Carl McColman provides much better introductory advice.
Oh please! September 14, 2005
30 out of 45 found this review helpful
Again, another author who thinks people need "saving" from Witchcraft. Look, you can't protect your kids from the various religions of the world.
First of all, your child will grow up to be their own person and you can't tell them what to believe and what not to. They have their own minds and spirits.
Second of all - Witchcraft is NOT about evil, and it's NOT about satan and devil worship. Anyone who thinks this is not looking beyond the tip if their own nose.
Do yourself a favor and let your child explore and study whatever religion they choose. There's no harm in LEARNING. And there is such a thing as being WAY over protective.
This book was useless to me for one reason - I'm just not an overbearing, overprotective, paranoid parent.
Looking for a good book about Wicca for teens March 1, 2006
22 out of 29 found this review helpful
First let me say that I have not read this book, nor do I intend to considering what the other reviews have said. But, I wanted to add my comments just the same.
I was doing a search for some good books on Teen Wicca for a friends teenage daughter. She has been interested in Wicca upon learning that I am Wiccan. I have been Wiccan for nearly a year myself, so I was wanting to get some books for her, ones that are targeted towards teens and I found this (amoung the various books on teen wicca). I grew up in the Christian church and went to church for many years into my 30s. But on finding Wicca, I found my home. I have never felt so much at peace than I have this past year.
One of the reviewers stated about our Wiccan Rede "harm none". "An it harm none, do what ye will". This goes far beyond the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Because harm none means harm no one, harm nothing, including yourself. So not only do we strive to respect all humans (both male and female), but all life. Wicca is a religion foremost that believes in both a Goddess and a God, the Mother and the Father of all creation. We believe that they are in everyone and everything. We also believe that they will love you whether you believe in them or not.
One of the thirteen points of The Principles of Wiccan Belief written by The Council of American Witches is
"Our only animosity toward Christianity, or toward any other religion or philosophy-of-life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be 'the one true right and only way' and have sought to deny freedom to others and to supress other ways of religious practices and belief."
In seeing this book, is it any wonder why I choose not to tell my Christian family members that I am Wicca? They will be convinced that I am going straight to hell, and wouldn't listen with an open mind no matter what I say. I would also recommend Scott Cunningham's book The Truth About Witchcraft if you really want the facts about Wicca and Witchcraft.
A Christian Review of this Book April 18, 2006
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
As an ex-pagan, now Christian, I had hopes that this book would be a good read, and based in truth. Sadly however, Russo has managed to disappoint me again. He repeats misinformation in sections of the book, and in other sections gives instructions on how spells are cast! This book can be considered a "DIY" in several places. From the misinformation, to the DIY spellcasting,this book deserves to be thrown in the garbage.
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