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Making Healthy Families

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In Making Healthy Families, Gayle Peterson presents the very latest research on what contributes to healthy functional families in an easy-to-read format with questions answered from parents on her family column on ivillage.com's ParentsPlace. Peterson covers all the life stages of a family unit from becoming a couple to raising teenagers in order to enable parents to understand and effectively negotiate the normal, varied stages of the family life cycle. Of special value is a chapter on trouble-shooting tips and helps for parents who anticipate their own predictable stress points on the family life cycle. Making Healthy Families is highly recommended for parents at all stages of parenthood, marriage and family counselors, as well as students of psychology and the family unit in a multicultural, alternative life styles society.

The book, An Easier Childbirth, and the CD Body-Centered Hypnosis for an Easier Pregnancy and Childbirth, provide a complete preparation program for the pregnant mother. Body-Centered Hypnosis for Childbirth: A Training DVD in the technique of Dr. Gayle Peterson is a fabulous training DVD for childbirth professionals , and Birthing Normally, the ground-breaking work and philosophy of Holistic prenatal care are all products for pregnant women and their families as they traverse the stage of becoming parents. Check them out. and enjoy!

I thought this book had some very good suggestions and good insight. A lot of it was principles about family and marriage that I felt wasn't too hard to understand. Here and there I found things that I didn't think of before. It was interesting that the Author puts a lot of letters from her readers in the book asking questions and her answering them. I felt about 50% of them I actually enjoyed reading and got some useful information from them. Some I had skipped over because I felt they weren't that helpful. All in all I thought it was a good read, but I didn't think it was outstanding. It had it's moments. And it will be helpful for those looking to improve there marriage and family in some areas.