Shalom in the Home was an American family-centered weekly hour-long prime time reality television series on TLC.
[3] The weekly one-hour prime-time program sought to help families overcome difficult problems.
[1][4][5] Boteach provided advice to dysfunctional families about relationships, marriage and parenting and tried to bring them peace (shalom, in Hebrew).
[7][1][2] Boteach later brought the parents into the trailer, which is "neutral territory", showed them the footage, and gently confronted them about the family's dysfunction in the hope of shocking them into change.
The Jewish News of Northern California wrote that unlike hosts in similar shows, Boteach: "really seems to care more about helping people than demeaning them.