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The Relational Book for Parenting
The Relational Book for Parenting uses comics, fables, articles, and games to help families' grow their relational intelligence in the daily back and forth of parenting. It's a joyful, accessible, parent-friendly cure for what ails our isolating culture, helping us to raise a generation of young people better able to connect, collaborate and innovate across differences.
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Couple and family therapist Saliha Bava, PhD, and Emmy winning animator and author Mark Greene explore our families' powerful relational capacities, charting a playful and transformative path to insuring children and parents alike can create joyful personal and professional relationships over the course of our lifetimes.
REVIEWS:
Within the present work by Saliha Bava and Mark Greene, we enter a new and more promising world.
— From the foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD
The Relational Book for Parenting is a perfect, timely response to the question so many parents are now asking. Namely, how can we counteract the detrimental effects of socialization, particularly problems related to our emotional disconnections and isolation from others?
— Judy Chu, PhD, Stanford University’s Department of Human Biology, Author of When Boys Become Boys
I invite you and yours to hone your “family relationship superpowers” by engaging with this brilliant and captivating guide.
— Jacqueline Hudak, PhD, Clinical Director, Center for Couples and Adult Families, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania
This book is a must-read for anyone who interacts with children, not only parents but also grandparents, teachers, aunts, and uncles. The reader will also come away with tips for more effective interpersonal communications in their adult relationships.
— Lisa M. Blacker, Executive Editor at The Good Men Project
Bava and Greene’s playful art and story translate complex theory to day-by-day relational principles and practices. Placing parenting as cultural practice, the authors invite readers to move from individualism and isolation to culture that “mindfully centers and cares for relationships.”
— Carmen Knudson-Martin, Professor, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling
The Relational Book for Parenting is a fast, funny, creative read that helps families build their relationship super powers. A must for all families!
— Melanie Doyle, Human Development and Psychology teacher at Dawson College
It’s such a sophisticated blend of theory and fun. The comic illustrations reinforce life-changing, culture-shaping ideas. It is not exclusive. It is not exhausting. It is brilliant!
— Bronwyn Leiataua
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Couple and family therapist Saliha Bava, PhD, and Emmy winning animator and author Mark Greene explore our families' powerful relational capacities, charting a playful and transformative path to insuring children and parents alike can create joyful personal and professional relationships over the course of our lifetimes.
REVIEWS:
Within the present work by Saliha Bava and Mark Greene, we enter a new and more promising world.
— From the foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD
The Relational Book for Parenting is a perfect, timely response to the question so many parents are now asking. Namely, how can we counteract the detrimental effects of socialization, particularly problems related to our emotional disconnections and isolation from others?
— Judy Chu, PhD, Stanford University’s Department of Human Biology, Author of When Boys Become Boys
I invite you and yours to hone your “family relationship superpowers” by engaging with this brilliant and captivating guide.
— Jacqueline Hudak, PhD, Clinical Director, Center for Couples and Adult Families, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania
This book is a must-read for anyone who interacts with children, not only parents but also grandparents, teachers, aunts, and uncles. The reader will also come away with tips for more effective interpersonal communications in their adult relationships.
— Lisa M. Blacker, Executive Editor at The Good Men Project
Bava and Greene’s playful art and story translate complex theory to day-by-day relational principles and practices. Placing parenting as cultural practice, the authors invite readers to move from individualism and isolation to culture that “mindfully centers and cares for relationships.”
— Carmen Knudson-Martin, Professor, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling
The Relational Book for Parenting is a fast, funny, creative read that helps families build their relationship super powers. A must for all families!
— Melanie Doyle, Human Development and Psychology teacher at Dawson College
It’s such a sophisticated blend of theory and fun. The comic illustrations reinforce life-changing, culture-shaping ideas. It is not exclusive. It is not exhausting. It is brilliant!
— Bronwyn Leiataua
- GenresParenting
220 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2018
35 people want to read
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