I'll Never Do to My Kids What My Parents Did to Me: A Guide to Conscious Parenting

by Thomas Paris, Eileen Paris

"I'll Never Do to My Kids What My Parents Did To Me!" A Guide to Conscious Parenting teaches parents how to interrupt negative family relationship patterns, and raise kids with a healthy sense of self. It is not just a cognitive method. Parents learn how to regain their own calmness and presence when they are aroused or upset. Identifying somatic or body reactions is a crucial part of learning how to manage reactions especially anger and frustration. We offer a wholistic system of parent education which teaches child development theory at the same time as teaching skill building. Socialize kids without breaking their spirit.

Genres: Self Help, Parenting, Nonfiction

150 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1992

Reviews

[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for people who are still smarting from wounds inflicted unconsciously by their parents who don't want pass those wounds on to their children. Also good for people who are trying to figure out why they do the things they do, and may have problems that come from commonly inflicted parental wounds.

A commonly inflicted wound, for example, is a parent who tells their child not to cry when he is hurt. if instead the parent mirrors the child's emotion instead, by saying, "You seem really sad," the child feels validated and can let the emotion go and move on.