Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
by Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell
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Read in August, 2008
you'll not find parenting tips, per se, in this book, but it is provocative. examines the fundamental basis of parent-child relationships which isn't about tips, skills, or strategies. siegel prompts the reader to consider how healthy and adaptive are his or her responses to life situations, specifically parenting scenarios. i think he's asking parents, readers, to consider "how healthy and whole am i?" the basic assumption, a sound but too often neglected concept, is that my personal ...more
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Read in December, 2007
Not being a parent, I never would have read this book had a friend not recommended it as a good book for relationships in general. I found it to be so. It was a good review of some of what I learned from Bruce Perry's lectures on attachment and from Ron Henke, my former father-in-law about attachment. Most memorable were the points that the important thing about current relationships is the story you bring to it of your formative relationships. That making sense of your early relationships, ...more
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neurotic new parents
I am a bit of an armchair psychologist so this book was right up my alley. Intelligent, thoughtful but not too clinical, this book explains why we find ourselves repeating the behavior patterns of our parents, good and bad, with our own children. It discusses implicit and explicit memory, brain development and the importance of a healthy parental attachment. Importantly (for me), the authors urge parents to examine their memories of childhood closely and to determine what type of attachment t...more
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Read in March, 2008
I began reading "What Happy People Know" and realized why "Parenting from the Inside Out" was so dang depressing to me.
What Happy People Know says that going back and stirring up the pain of childhood experiences simply does not help. So I stopped reading the Parenting book, kept on with the Happy book, and feel a ton better!
What Happy People Know says that going back and stirring up the pain of childhood experiences simply does not help. So I stopped reading the Parenting book, kept on with the Happy book, and feel a ton better!
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Read in September, 2007
Some of the parenting material is so obvious, but I had never given it any thought and no one ever talks about it. This book is nice for self reflection about how one was parented and helps one consciously "plan" strategies for parenting. The parts about brain development are interesting but can be quite dense.
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Not just parents.
I'm about a third of the way through. I read a review here that said it was full of impenetrable psych-babble but that is not the case at all. It is full of brain research. Probably won't interest everybody but it is most certainly not psycho-babble.
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Read in May, 2008
recommends it for:
therapists and parents
This is one of the best books I have read that summarizes and applies brain research to parenting. It is quite theoretical, and not entirely practical, but I tend to like to have theoretical/philosophical perspective and I can figure out how to apply it.
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Read in February, 2008
The most honest look at yourself as a parent. Wonderful deep assessment and understanding of attachment. Compassionate look at our own childhoods and fascinating look at neurology and psychology.
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Read in April, 2008
I didn't have a chance to finish this book because it was due back at the library. I did like what I was able to read, however. At some point in the future, I would like to finish it.
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
all parents
This book opened my eyes to why and how I parent. It helped me look at myself, and be the best parent I can to my girls. I highly recomend this book.
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Read in May, 2007
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parents, parents to be
Yet another self-help parenting book. I liked the concrete examples about how one's childhood experience might affect one's parenting.
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a great parenting book. not a how to, but a foundation of understanding ones role as a parent and their relationship to thier child.
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okay, i didn't even finish it. i read 20 pages and it was so full of inpenetrable psycho babble that i tossed it aside.
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Read in January, 2008
will be reading for work, as well as a somewhat solipsistic (narcissistic) love of processing.
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
parents
Attended author Mary Hartzell's lecture and was inspired to read this book.
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Read in July, 2007
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parents
Highly recommend.
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