"I'll Never Do to My Kids What My Parents Did to Me!": A Guide to Conscious Parenting [Paperback]

Thomas Paris (Author), Eileen Paris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994

"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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A splendid example of how good parenting results from a good working relationship between parents." (The California Therapist) "...A valuable guide with very specific suggestions for building emotionally healthy families." (Booklist) "Tom and Eileen Paris have taken the best of the psychological theories and shaped a brilliant beauty of a book that truly works in the real world." (Carolee Bogue, Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District) Determined to raise their son as a happy, healthy, self-confident child free of the negative legacies handed hown by their parents, the psychologist authors collaborated on this practical program." (Publishers Weekly)

"This topic is treated with great tenderness, as well as with support and respect for parents who genuinely want to understand and master family dynamics." -- Kelly Neece, The ACDS Newsletter

About the Author

Dr. Eileen Paris and Dr.Thomas Paris are both married, family and child counselors who have been working with children and families for 24 years. Their professional lives have been devoted to working with children of all ages - from pregnancy through preschool and adolescence - and with teaching all types of parents, whether single, divorced or together how to understand the messages-- both good and bad-- parents learned as children and what messages are now being passed on to children. Their background includes experience teaching nursery school, working in the Head Start program, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Together they raised their son Seth, as a joint custody family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446395463
• ISBN-13: 978-0446395465
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading, August 24, 2002

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Clare L. Christie "Harmony At Home" (West Perth, WA Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: "I'll Never Do to My Kids What My Parents Did to Me!": A Guide to Conscious Parenting (Paperback)

I'm a parenting facilitator and I think this book is an absolute must for all parents. In fact they should be made to read it before they even decide to have kids.

The writers obviously have a deep understanding of themselves and their relationships.

It really explains how we interfere with the process of our children's natural intelligence with our unresolved childhood pain.

It's not particularly theoretical and deals with self-evident facts and feelings in any given situation.