I have a great kid and I've eased up a lot on her as she has grown older, because she I can't really ask more than she what she is already giving toward school, socially and with the family generally, but I think that I can take my parenting up a notch after reading this book. I consider myself pretty self-aware but this book made more conscious about some of the patterns that I was repeating as a parent that I had experienced as a child. We can't really help our kids until we help ourselves. For example, we project so much of our crap on our kids, mostly based out of fear, or our own experiences with our parents when growing up as a child. I'm glad that I continued to read it, because there was a lot in the book that I found interesting. When I started it, I almost put it back down for good, since the opening was all about how your kids are your equals and other comments that sounded very much like the book was going to be about permissive parenting. Written in the style of her New York Times bestseller, The Conscious Parent, The Awakened Family draws from Eastern philosophy as well as Western psychology to offer enlightened advice and a clear program for raising confident, conscious children who are true to themselves.

Shefali teaches us how to control our expectations, embrace the present moment, and let go of the anxiety surrounding how best to parent our children. Shefali Tsabary challenges the modern myths of parenting that define how a child is 'supposed to be.' Instead of holding our children to society's impossible ideals, Dr. Parents need to recognize their children for who they actually are, and in her groundbreaking new book, Dr. Parenting should not be a competition with winners and losers. But often these turn into crushing expectations that cause real harm and disillusionment at the most important time in a child's development. New from the New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent comes a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves.Īll parents have aspirations for their children.

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