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Title: Ground Rules: What I Learned My Daughter's Fifteenth Year by Sherril Jaffe ISBN: 1-56836-172-6 Publisher: Kodansha Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Glad I didn¿t have to wear her shoes
Comment: Imagine being married to the local San Francisco rabbi. Then imagine having the 15yo daughter from hell, complete with runaway episodes, truant behavior, the works. Sherril Jaffe had to deal with all of it, and she tells us the trials of her parenting efforts as she tries to understand, discipline, and help her older daughter thru the trials of adolescence while, at the same time, trying to hold the family together. And all of it is done under the eyes of her husband's congregation. Jaffe gets points for her honesty and humor.
Oy vey.

Rating: 1
Summary: Trite, Tiresome, Yawn-Inducing
Comment: I had Mrs. Jaffe as a professor of English Composition at Sonoma State University. Although I received a good grade in her class and find her teaching methods to be . . . interesting, I have a strong distate for this book.

The stories encapsulated herein are trite, Jewish, everyday stories. Nothing new or exciting for the average Jewish person herein. There is no imagination in the telling, and there is no beauty in the language. Mrs. Jaffe picks words like a blind monkey plays the piano: randomly with discordant results.

Calling it a memoir is only half-true. Yes, it's based on her life, but a more accurate name for it would be therapy. Rather than seek professional help to deal with her familial problems, she has written her problems in book form to get them off her chest. Mrs. Jaffe, your personal life is not anyone's business, no matter how "comical" or "interesting" it may be.

In closing, this bookis banal, boring, bothersome, biased, bloated and bad. Do not read. I would rather have my wisdom teeth extracted with no novocaine than read any of her books.

Rating: 1
Summary: Did I read the same book?
Comment: ....I am not so sure. Although my heart broke for this poor woman as I read about her children, I still wanted to shake her. I understand that sometimes we cannot control our children's actions, which this I do agree with the author. However, we can control how we react. When she ever told her daughter, "I feel awful when you call me a dumbass." I thought I would scream. Sounds like her problems started along time ago. Those girls took violin lessons, let me tell you, because they played her like a pro. Glad to hear all is now well for her. And lets talk about the father. He must have been the one to give the girls lessons. They all knew exactly what they wanted from the mother and they got it.