Garden Haiku: Raising Your Child with Ancient Wisdom offers sound parenting advice through the inspiring form of haiku poetry. Lily Wang equates parents with gardeners, whose sole duty it is to nurture tender buds into full bloom. She then gives parents spiritual guidelines for raising happy, respectful, and resourceful children.

The simplicity and wisdom in these character-building principles have been extolled since ancient times but tend to get lost in today's frenzied world. Wang revives golden virtues with original poetic lucidity to bring Zen to parenting:

Patience is to
Have no expectations
But greater acceptance

To illustrate that parents' hands are children's wings:

Children can devil or angel be-
Put your hands on their backs
So they can feel their wings

And to teach a philosophy of love in action:

Within every child is a well-
Fill it with love,
So it will feed them for life

Just as we have our children's futures in our hands, they also have ours in theirs. A modern Zen classic, Garden Haiku is every caregiver's poetic manual on the art of successful parenting.