The Aware Parent – Jon Kabat Zinn

Book Description

The intelligent guide to parenting.

To be “aware parents” it is a tall order, challenging and sometimes stressful. But it is important, for the way in which this task is performed has a decisive influence on the heart, the soul and conscience of our children as adults.

This manual presents a compelling and wise way to cultivate this awareness, offering a host of enlightening new perspectives:

• get used to imagining the world from the child's point of life;
• intuit how our children see us, how they perceive our gestures, our words;
• practice seeing their children as perfect as they are and not what we would like them to be and reconsider our expectations of them in light of this.