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Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
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children are easily overwhelmed by impulses bigger and stronger than they are.
Janet Lansbury • No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
For rigid-patterned parents, improving their child replaces loving their child as she is. The child becomes a project, rather than a Being, and managing the project replaces trusting the child’s natural growth and development.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel and counterproductive perfectionism. To help them reduce this, Winnicott developed a charming phrase: ‘the good enough parent’. No child, he insisted, needs an ideal parent. They just need an OK, pre
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Seeking your biological child’s input is especially important when implementing new household rules or changing family traditions to accommodate a new sibling’s needs.
Betsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
We want to make clear to the child in her daily life: what to expect, when to expect it, and where to expect it.
Paula Polk Lillard • Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
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