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Title: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart by Jan Hunt, Peggy O'Mara ISBN: 0-86571-440-1 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The power of respect
Comment: The subtitle of Jan Hunt's new book is "Parenting from the heart." With equal truth it could be subtitled "Parenting that respects children." How strange that such a gentle motto sounds radical... almost revolutionary. In the words of the Seneca elder Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, "In Native culture, children are regarded as teachers because they have not yet had any experience of having their truth and their trust chipped away by people who want to control them." Jan Hunt celebrates the power of trust and respect, freely extended to children from birth onwards. Her goal is nothing less than the ending of all forms of child abuse, and the creation of a world where children can grow into adulthood with their inborn capacities for love and learning still intact. Her book is friendly, practical, and filled with powerful ideas expressed in simple and direct style, well supported by evidence that these ideas really work. The Natural Child shows that "parenting from the heart" is not a burden but a joy and privilege.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Important, Heartfelt, and Engaging Book
Comment: If the Quaker prophet John Woolman were alive today, and contemplating parenting issues, this is the book he would have written. Hunt's thesis is simple: a happy childhood lasts forever, and every child is no less a human being than we are, and must be treated as such. Adults behave as well as they are treated, and the same holds true for children. Adults generally do not improve their behavior when they are insulted, criticized, threatened, publicly humiliated, or beaten; or in the rare instances when they do so, the costs in fearfulness, anger, and resentment are extraordinarily high.
Fortunately, argues Hunt eloquently, the seed of how to be with children is implanted within us. If we listen hard enough, the direction of how to act toward a child comes naturally. Crying, for example, is a signal provided by nature meant to disturb parents so they can seek out the causes of the child's distress.
The Natural Child offers a consistent and compelling approach to raising a loving, trusting, and confident child, without resort to coercion or manipulation, simply by following the Parenting Golden Rule: "Treat your child as you would like to be treated if you were in the same position." This book is a must for every public and church library, and the perfect gift for the individual or couple expecting the arrival of their first "distinguished visitors".
Rating: 5
Summary: The BEST parenting book out there
Comment: A must read for all parents...This book was like a breath of fresh air! What a joy to hear a parent talking about being on the same team as your child. You don't have to be the "bad guy" with your child. The most important concept is that by following your heart, you as the parent know what is best for your child. Families everywhere will be happier b/c of this book!
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Title: Natural Family Living : The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting by Peggy O'Mara ISBN: 0671027441 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost (Classics in Human Development) by Jean Liedloff ISBN: 0201050714 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Our Babies, Ourselves : How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith Small ISBN: 0385483627 Publisher: Anchor Pub Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Baby Matters, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby by Linda F. Palmer, Janice Phelps, Dr. Linda F. Palmer ISBN: 0967605075 Publisher: Lucky Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Magical Child by Joseph Chilton Pearce ISBN: 0452267897 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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