Author: Aracely Flores
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463340680
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Aracely Flores es una persona que siempre ha querido respuestas para todo, y más cuando en una situación difícil que estaba pasando quería saber porque le pasaba eso a ella. Fue en ese mismo instante que empezó a escribir este maravilloso libro, donde encontraras respuestas acerca de cómo y porque es que te comportas de la misma manera, como es que puedes cambiar tus actitudes y como las puedes llevar en una buena dirección; sin dejar de lado ser tú mismo, ser la persona que tanto NECESITAS ser para lograr lo que deseas muy en el fondo, te ayudara a despejar dudas cobre como es que tu entorno influye en ti, y obviamente cambiaras tus pensamientos para que tu mundo entero cambie. Este no es solo un libro más de auto ayuda, es una guía para descubrir tus sentimiento, y no dejarte manejar por ellos. Hay cosas que no necesitamos saber, hay cosas que son necesarias saber, y hay actitudes que son INDISPENSABLES cambiar para poder ser felices como tanto lo merecemos. Gracias por tomas la decisión de leer este libro, que será tu amigo fiel en los momentos que más lo necesites. Recuerda todo está en ti, tu ELIJES ser feliz o seguir en el mismo camino.
Amor Propio Un Camino Facil de Llegar
Author: Aracely Flores
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463340680
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Aracely Flores es una persona que siempre ha querido respuestas para todo, y más cuando en una situación difícil que estaba pasando quería saber porque le pasaba eso a ella. Fue en ese mismo instante que empezó a escribir este maravilloso libro, donde encontraras respuestas acerca de cómo y porque es que te comportas de la misma manera, como es que puedes cambiar tus actitudes y como las puedes llevar en una buena dirección; sin dejar de lado ser tú mismo, ser la persona que tanto NECESITAS ser para lograr lo que deseas muy en el fondo, te ayudara a despejar dudas cobre como es que tu entorno influye en ti, y obviamente cambiaras tus pensamientos para que tu mundo entero cambie. Este no es solo un libro más de auto ayuda, es una guía para descubrir tus sentimiento, y no dejarte manejar por ellos. Hay cosas que no necesitamos saber, hay cosas que son necesarias saber, y hay actitudes que son INDISPENSABLES cambiar para poder ser felices como tanto lo merecemos. Gracias por tomas la decisión de leer este libro, que será tu amigo fiel en los momentos que más lo necesites. Recuerda todo está en ti, tu ELIJES ser feliz o seguir en el mismo camino.
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463340680
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Aracely Flores es una persona que siempre ha querido respuestas para todo, y más cuando en una situación difícil que estaba pasando quería saber porque le pasaba eso a ella. Fue en ese mismo instante que empezó a escribir este maravilloso libro, donde encontraras respuestas acerca de cómo y porque es que te comportas de la misma manera, como es que puedes cambiar tus actitudes y como las puedes llevar en una buena dirección; sin dejar de lado ser tú mismo, ser la persona que tanto NECESITAS ser para lograr lo que deseas muy en el fondo, te ayudara a despejar dudas cobre como es que tu entorno influye en ti, y obviamente cambiaras tus pensamientos para que tu mundo entero cambie. Este no es solo un libro más de auto ayuda, es una guía para descubrir tus sentimiento, y no dejarte manejar por ellos. Hay cosas que no necesitamos saber, hay cosas que son necesarias saber, y hay actitudes que son INDISPENSABLES cambiar para poder ser felices como tanto lo merecemos. Gracias por tomas la decisión de leer este libro, que será tu amigo fiel en los momentos que más lo necesites. Recuerda todo está en ti, tu ELIJES ser feliz o seguir en el mismo camino.
Thinking Critically About Abortion
Author: Nathan Nobis
Publisher: Open Philosophy Press
ISBN: 0578532638
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and legal positions on the issues, it focuses on how to think about the issues, not just what to think about them. It is an ideal resource to improve your understanding of what people think, why they think that and whether their (and your) arguments are good or bad, and why. It's ideal for classroom use, discussion groups, organizational learning, and personal reading. From the Preface To many people, abortion is an issue for which discussions and debates are frustrating and fruitless: it seems like no progress will ever be made towards any understanding, much less resolution or even compromise. Judgments like these, however, are premature because some basic techniques from critical thinking, such as carefully defining words and testing definitions, stating the full structure of arguments so each step of the reasoning can be examined, and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of different explanations can help us make progress towards these goals. When emotions run high, we sometimes need to step back and use a passion for calm, cool, critical thinking. This helps us better understand the positions and arguments of people who see things differently from us, as well as our own positions and arguments. And we can use critical thinking skills help to try to figure out which positions are best, in terms of being supported by good arguments: after all, we might have much to learn from other people, sometimes that our own views should change, for the better. Here we use basic critical thinking skills to argue that abortion is typically not morally wrong. We begin with less morally-controversial claims: adults, children and babies are wrong to kill and wrong to kill, fundamentally, because they, we, are conscious, aware and have feelings. We argue that since early fetuses entirely lack these characteristics, they are not inherently wrong to kill and so most abortions are not morally wrong, since most abortions are done early in pregnancy, before consciousness and feeling develop in the fetus. Furthermore, since the right to life is not the right to someone else’s body, fetuses might not have the right to the pregnant woman’s body—which she has the right to—and so she has the right to not allow the fetus use of her body. This further justifies abortion, at least until technology allows for the removal of fetuses to other wombs. Since morally permissible actions should be legal, abortions should be legal: it is an injustice to criminalize actions that are not wrong. In the course of arguing for these claims, we: 1. discuss how to best define abortion; 2. dismiss many common “question-begging” arguments that merely assume their conclusions, instead of giving genuine reasons for them; 3. refute some often-heard “everyday arguments” about abortion, on all sides; 4. explain why the most influential philosophical arguments against abortion are unsuccessful; 5. provide some positive arguments that at least early abortions are not wrong; 6. briefly discuss the ethics and legality of later abortions, and more. This essay is not a “how to win an argument” piece or a tract or any kind of apologetics. It is not designed to help anyone “win” debates: everybody “wins” on this issue when we calmly and respectfully engage arguments with care, charity, honesty and humility. This book is merely a reasoned, systematic introduction to the issues that we hope models these skills and virtues. Its discussion should not be taken as absolute “proof” of anything: much more needs to be understood and carefully discussed—always.
Publisher: Open Philosophy Press
ISBN: 0578532638
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and legal positions on the issues, it focuses on how to think about the issues, not just what to think about them. It is an ideal resource to improve your understanding of what people think, why they think that and whether their (and your) arguments are good or bad, and why. It's ideal for classroom use, discussion groups, organizational learning, and personal reading. From the Preface To many people, abortion is an issue for which discussions and debates are frustrating and fruitless: it seems like no progress will ever be made towards any understanding, much less resolution or even compromise. Judgments like these, however, are premature because some basic techniques from critical thinking, such as carefully defining words and testing definitions, stating the full structure of arguments so each step of the reasoning can be examined, and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of different explanations can help us make progress towards these goals. When emotions run high, we sometimes need to step back and use a passion for calm, cool, critical thinking. This helps us better understand the positions and arguments of people who see things differently from us, as well as our own positions and arguments. And we can use critical thinking skills help to try to figure out which positions are best, in terms of being supported by good arguments: after all, we might have much to learn from other people, sometimes that our own views should change, for the better. Here we use basic critical thinking skills to argue that abortion is typically not morally wrong. We begin with less morally-controversial claims: adults, children and babies are wrong to kill and wrong to kill, fundamentally, because they, we, are conscious, aware and have feelings. We argue that since early fetuses entirely lack these characteristics, they are not inherently wrong to kill and so most abortions are not morally wrong, since most abortions are done early in pregnancy, before consciousness and feeling develop in the fetus. Furthermore, since the right to life is not the right to someone else’s body, fetuses might not have the right to the pregnant woman’s body—which she has the right to—and so she has the right to not allow the fetus use of her body. This further justifies abortion, at least until technology allows for the removal of fetuses to other wombs. Since morally permissible actions should be legal, abortions should be legal: it is an injustice to criminalize actions that are not wrong. In the course of arguing for these claims, we: 1. discuss how to best define abortion; 2. dismiss many common “question-begging” arguments that merely assume their conclusions, instead of giving genuine reasons for them; 3. refute some often-heard “everyday arguments” about abortion, on all sides; 4. explain why the most influential philosophical arguments against abortion are unsuccessful; 5. provide some positive arguments that at least early abortions are not wrong; 6. briefly discuss the ethics and legality of later abortions, and more. This essay is not a “how to win an argument” piece or a tract or any kind of apologetics. It is not designed to help anyone “win” debates: everybody “wins” on this issue when we calmly and respectfully engage arguments with care, charity, honesty and humility. This book is merely a reasoned, systematic introduction to the issues that we hope models these skills and virtues. Its discussion should not be taken as absolute “proof” of anything: much more needs to be understood and carefully discussed—always.
La Production Du Corps
Author: Maurice Godelier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000443701
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 401
Book Description
Dans quelle mesure le corps fait-il l'identité d'un être humain ? Et pour combien de temps si quelque chose survit de lui, après sa mort, ce n'est pas tout à fait son corps ? Dans toutes les cultures, il semble que l'humanité, sous des formes diverses, ait été amenée à imaginer l'être humain comme composé de deux parties : une partie périssable et une partie qui continue d'agir bien au-delà de la mort, même si elle n'est pas immortelle. Ces deux parties ne se réduisent pas nécessairement à un corps visible et à un animal double, invisible, mais qui meurt quand l'autre meurt. Chez les Maenge de Nouville-Guinée, l'individu a deux âmes, même s'il n'a qu'un seul corps. De nombreuses sociétés pensent qu'il faut plus de deux êtres humains pour faire un être humain. Il faut que l'esprit d'un ancêtre, ou l'action d'un dieu vienne sinon animer ce corps, du moins le rendre complet, le compléter. Chaque personne naît donc, s'étant inscrite en soi, formant comme une sorte d'intimité impersonnelle, un ensemble d'idées, d'images, de valeurs, par lesquelles l'ordre ou les désordres qui s'impriment dans son corps. règne dans sa société. Seize anthropologues et historiens ont exploré ces réalités culturelles dispersées dans l'espace et le temps.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000443701
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 401
Book Description
Dans quelle mesure le corps fait-il l'identité d'un être humain ? Et pour combien de temps si quelque chose survit de lui, après sa mort, ce n'est pas tout à fait son corps ? Dans toutes les cultures, il semble que l'humanité, sous des formes diverses, ait été amenée à imaginer l'être humain comme composé de deux parties : une partie périssable et une partie qui continue d'agir bien au-delà de la mort, même si elle n'est pas immortelle. Ces deux parties ne se réduisent pas nécessairement à un corps visible et à un animal double, invisible, mais qui meurt quand l'autre meurt. Chez les Maenge de Nouville-Guinée, l'individu a deux âmes, même s'il n'a qu'un seul corps. De nombreuses sociétés pensent qu'il faut plus de deux êtres humains pour faire un être humain. Il faut que l'esprit d'un ancêtre, ou l'action d'un dieu vienne sinon animer ce corps, du moins le rendre complet, le compléter. Chaque personne naît donc, s'étant inscrite en soi, formant comme une sorte d'intimité impersonnelle, un ensemble d'idées, d'images, de valeurs, par lesquelles l'ordre ou les désordres qui s'impriment dans son corps. règne dans sa société. Seize anthropologues et historiens ont exploré ces réalités culturelles dispersées dans l'espace et le temps.
SER PADRES GESTALTICOS
Author: Antonio Sellés
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291229639
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
En este libro el lector encontrará historias genuinas, especiales, emotivas, en definitiva, las experiencias personales de cada autor.El proceso de Ser Padre o Madre, es una etapa en la vida en la que se pone a prueba todo el arsenal de adaptación ante en las nuevas situaciones y vivencias, ante la pérdida de hijos, ante encuentros y desencuentros y las diferentes edades de los mismos, en la creación de ajustes creativos, en los momentos de reflexión y auto evaluación, en las proyecciones, confluencias, bloqueos y el fluir con lo que va aconteciendo. Además están incluidas aportaciones de profesionales que aunque no tienen hijos propios, comparten sus experiencias con las relaciones de amor y amistad con otras personas como si fueran hijos/as propios. El "rol" de ser padre y/o madre e hijos/as, puede ser entendido desde diferentes ángulos y relaciones, independientemente de los lazos sanguíneos.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291229639
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
En este libro el lector encontrará historias genuinas, especiales, emotivas, en definitiva, las experiencias personales de cada autor.El proceso de Ser Padre o Madre, es una etapa en la vida en la que se pone a prueba todo el arsenal de adaptación ante en las nuevas situaciones y vivencias, ante la pérdida de hijos, ante encuentros y desencuentros y las diferentes edades de los mismos, en la creación de ajustes creativos, en los momentos de reflexión y auto evaluación, en las proyecciones, confluencias, bloqueos y el fluir con lo que va aconteciendo. Además están incluidas aportaciones de profesionales que aunque no tienen hijos propios, comparten sus experiencias con las relaciones de amor y amistad con otras personas como si fueran hijos/as propios. El "rol" de ser padre y/o madre e hijos/as, puede ser entendido desde diferentes ángulos y relaciones, independientemente de los lazos sanguíneos.
Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients
Author: Lorraine T. Benuto
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319648802
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This timely practical reference addresses the lack of Spanish-language resources for mental health professionals to use with their Latino clients. Geared toward both English- and Spanish-speaking practitioners in a variety of settings, this volume is designed to minimize misunderstandings between the clinician and client, and with that the possibility of inaccurate diagnosis and/or ineffective treatment. Coverage for each topic features a discussion of cultural considerations, guidelines for evidence-based best practices, a review of available findings, a treatment plan, plus clinical tools and client handouts, homework sheets, worksheets, and other materials. Chapters span a wide range of disorders and problems over the life-course, and include reproducible resources for: Assessing for race-based trauma. Using behavioral activation and cognitive interventions to treat depression among Latinos. Treating aggression, substance use, abuse, and dependence among Latino Adults. Treating behavioral problems among Latino adolescents. Treating anxiety among Latino children. Working with Latino couples. Restoring legal competency with Latinos. The Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients fills a glaring need in behavioral service delivery, offering health psychologists, social workers, clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other helping professionals culturally-relevant support for working with this under served population. The materials included here are an important step toward dismantling barriers to mental health care.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319648802
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This timely practical reference addresses the lack of Spanish-language resources for mental health professionals to use with their Latino clients. Geared toward both English- and Spanish-speaking practitioners in a variety of settings, this volume is designed to minimize misunderstandings between the clinician and client, and with that the possibility of inaccurate diagnosis and/or ineffective treatment. Coverage for each topic features a discussion of cultural considerations, guidelines for evidence-based best practices, a review of available findings, a treatment plan, plus clinical tools and client handouts, homework sheets, worksheets, and other materials. Chapters span a wide range of disorders and problems over the life-course, and include reproducible resources for: Assessing for race-based trauma. Using behavioral activation and cognitive interventions to treat depression among Latinos. Treating aggression, substance use, abuse, and dependence among Latino Adults. Treating behavioral problems among Latino adolescents. Treating anxiety among Latino children. Working with Latino couples. Restoring legal competency with Latinos. The Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients fills a glaring need in behavioral service delivery, offering health psychologists, social workers, clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other helping professionals culturally-relevant support for working with this under served population. The materials included here are an important step toward dismantling barriers to mental health care.
Complete Bedwetting Book
Author: D. Preston Smith
Publisher: PottyMd LLC
ISBN: 9780976287773
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
Publisher: PottyMd LLC
ISBN: 9780976287773
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
Pastores Dabo Vobis
Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851838083
Category : Pastoral theology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Paul II on the mission and the formation of the priests of the future
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851838083
Category : Pastoral theology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Paul II on the mission and the formation of the priests of the future
Ten Moments of Healing
Author: Marcel Townsel
Publisher: Certa Publishing
ISBN: 193974864X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
While revisiting the pivotal stages of his life, Dr. Marcel Townsel takes the reader along with him in discovering the reality of God's presence and empowering grace. Ten Moments of Healing is a treasury of testimonies featuring significant life lessons that are sure to impact you. Walk with Dr. Townsel as he takes you with him in discovering a mature walk with the Savior. As you dig into these experiences, you will become aware of the miraculous, often untraceable, yet omniscient, omnipresent hand of God in your life. This volume of Ten Moments of Healing also includes translations in Spanish and German!
Publisher: Certa Publishing
ISBN: 193974864X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
While revisiting the pivotal stages of his life, Dr. Marcel Townsel takes the reader along with him in discovering the reality of God's presence and empowering grace. Ten Moments of Healing is a treasury of testimonies featuring significant life lessons that are sure to impact you. Walk with Dr. Townsel as he takes you with him in discovering a mature walk with the Savior. As you dig into these experiences, you will become aware of the miraculous, often untraceable, yet omniscient, omnipresent hand of God in your life. This volume of Ten Moments of Healing also includes translations in Spanish and German!
Decidí Vivir
Author: Julie Hersh
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626341427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Decidí Vivir es una historia de esperanza. La historia sobre mi experiencia personal con la depresión clínica se lee como una novela vertiginosa, con personajes que encantan y frustran. El contenido es duro, pero he aprendido que mi historia está lejos de ser única. La depresión es una enfermedad muy extendida e insidiosa. Mi libro se refiere también a mi búsqueda de la identidad. Después de dejar el mundo de los negocios para cuidar a mis niños pequeños y abuelos, así también como para adaptarme a una cultura muy diferente a la cual me había educado, me evaporé en mi entorno, ya sin estar segura de quién era yo. ¿Cuál era mi propósito? ¿Qué es lo que quería? Estas preguntas me afectaban y ponían en marcha mi tendencia genética a la depresión. La mayoría de las personas responde a estas preguntas sin tener que pasar por la sala de psiquiatría, pero mi camino estaba lleno de baches; la sala de psiquiatría fue sólo una de las muchas paradas. Cada vez que hablo de mi experiencia, conozco gente que a menudo se encuentra a un paso de la devastación mental o incluso del suicidio. Las historias sobre madres, padres, hermanos, hermanas, esposos y niños hacen que me pregunte: ¿Podríamos haber evitado esas muertes? Si estamos más conscientes, podremos ver las primeras señales de la depresión y salvar una vida? Creo que sí. Con esta convicción, ofrezco mi historia. Las ganancias de las ventas de este libro serán donadas a los programas y la investigación para luchar contra las enfermedades mentales.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1626341427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Decidí Vivir es una historia de esperanza. La historia sobre mi experiencia personal con la depresión clínica se lee como una novela vertiginosa, con personajes que encantan y frustran. El contenido es duro, pero he aprendido que mi historia está lejos de ser única. La depresión es una enfermedad muy extendida e insidiosa. Mi libro se refiere también a mi búsqueda de la identidad. Después de dejar el mundo de los negocios para cuidar a mis niños pequeños y abuelos, así también como para adaptarme a una cultura muy diferente a la cual me había educado, me evaporé en mi entorno, ya sin estar segura de quién era yo. ¿Cuál era mi propósito? ¿Qué es lo que quería? Estas preguntas me afectaban y ponían en marcha mi tendencia genética a la depresión. La mayoría de las personas responde a estas preguntas sin tener que pasar por la sala de psiquiatría, pero mi camino estaba lleno de baches; la sala de psiquiatría fue sólo una de las muchas paradas. Cada vez que hablo de mi experiencia, conozco gente que a menudo se encuentra a un paso de la devastación mental o incluso del suicidio. Las historias sobre madres, padres, hermanos, hermanas, esposos y niños hacen que me pregunte: ¿Podríamos haber evitado esas muertes? Si estamos más conscientes, podremos ver las primeras señales de la depresión y salvar una vida? Creo que sí. Con esta convicción, ofrezco mi historia. Las ganancias de las ventas de este libro serán donadas a los programas y la investigación para luchar contra las enfermedades mentales.
The Soul of Discipline
Author: Kim John Payne
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345548698
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries that help children feel safe and settled. In short: What looks like misbehavior is actually your children’s signal that they’re feeling lost, that they are trying to find direction and looking to you to guide them back on course. Payne gives parents heartwarming help and encouragement by combining astute observations with sensitive and often funny stories from his long career as a parent educator and a school and family counselor. In accessible language, he explains the relevance of current brain- and child-development studies to day-to-day parenting. Breaking the continuum of childhood into three stages, Payne says that parents need to play three different roles, each corresponding to one of those stages, to help steer children through their emotional growth and inevitable challenging times: • The Governor, who is comfortably and firmly in charge—setting limits and making decisions for the early years up to around the age of eight • The Gardener, who watches for emotional growth and makes decisions based on careful listening, assisting tweens in making plans that take the whole family’s needs into account • The Guide, who is both a sounding board and moral compass for emerging adults, helping teens build a sense of their life’s direction as a way to influence healthy decision making Practical and rooted in common sense, The Soul of Discipline gives parents permission to be warm and nurturing but also calm and firm (not overreactive). It gives clear, doable strategies to get things back on track for parents who sense that their children’s behavior has fallen into a troubling pattern. And best of all, it provides healthy direction to the entire family so parents can spend less time and energy on outmoded, punitive discipline and more on connecting with and enjoying their kids. Advance praise for The Soul of Discipline “The Soul of Discipline offers practical tools for helping parents implement discipline that’s respectful and effective, but the book is so much more. Kim John Payne offers a framework to guide parents in making decisions about why, when, and how to hold tighter reins as we build skills in our children, and why, when, and how to loosen the reins as we scaffold freedom.”—Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., co-author of No-Drama Discipline “This book gets deep inside the challenge of getting along with children and teens and thinks deeply about what they need from us to become strong and self-managing. It elevates discipline to what it should be—a caring process of helping kids orient to the world and live in it happily and well.”—Steve Biddulph, author of The New Manhood “Kim Payne provides a useful model for choosing our parenting stance—Governor, Gardener, or Guide—depending on the situation. Most powerfully, Payne begins with the radical view that children are not disobedient but rather disoriented. The upshot of this shift in perspective is that discipline is about helping children orient themselves effectively, not about controlling or chastising.”—Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., author of Playful Parenting
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345548698
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries that help children feel safe and settled. In short: What looks like misbehavior is actually your children’s signal that they’re feeling lost, that they are trying to find direction and looking to you to guide them back on course. Payne gives parents heartwarming help and encouragement by combining astute observations with sensitive and often funny stories from his long career as a parent educator and a school and family counselor. In accessible language, he explains the relevance of current brain- and child-development studies to day-to-day parenting. Breaking the continuum of childhood into three stages, Payne says that parents need to play three different roles, each corresponding to one of those stages, to help steer children through their emotional growth and inevitable challenging times: • The Governor, who is comfortably and firmly in charge—setting limits and making decisions for the early years up to around the age of eight • The Gardener, who watches for emotional growth and makes decisions based on careful listening, assisting tweens in making plans that take the whole family’s needs into account • The Guide, who is both a sounding board and moral compass for emerging adults, helping teens build a sense of their life’s direction as a way to influence healthy decision making Practical and rooted in common sense, The Soul of Discipline gives parents permission to be warm and nurturing but also calm and firm (not overreactive). It gives clear, doable strategies to get things back on track for parents who sense that their children’s behavior has fallen into a troubling pattern. And best of all, it provides healthy direction to the entire family so parents can spend less time and energy on outmoded, punitive discipline and more on connecting with and enjoying their kids. Advance praise for The Soul of Discipline “The Soul of Discipline offers practical tools for helping parents implement discipline that’s respectful and effective, but the book is so much more. Kim John Payne offers a framework to guide parents in making decisions about why, when, and how to hold tighter reins as we build skills in our children, and why, when, and how to loosen the reins as we scaffold freedom.”—Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., co-author of No-Drama Discipline “This book gets deep inside the challenge of getting along with children and teens and thinks deeply about what they need from us to become strong and self-managing. It elevates discipline to what it should be—a caring process of helping kids orient to the world and live in it happily and well.”—Steve Biddulph, author of The New Manhood “Kim Payne provides a useful model for choosing our parenting stance—Governor, Gardener, or Guide—depending on the situation. Most powerfully, Payne begins with the radical view that children are not disobedient but rather disoriented. The upshot of this shift in perspective is that discipline is about helping children orient themselves effectively, not about controlling or chastising.”—Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., author of Playful Parenting