What Our Children Teach Us [Hardcover]

Piero Ferrucci (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2002

A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and our sleep, to try our patience, and to elicit our most ferocious love. But children also have the power to teach us the greatest lessons we'll ever learn. Now Piero Ferrucci, a noted psychologist, author, and the father of two young sons, reveals how the journey of parenthood can be a learning path, a succession of experiences that can enrich and transform us like no religious retreat or course of psychotherapy ever could. Not obsessed with the usual equation of what we must teach our children, Ferrucci rather looks into the mirror our children hold up to adult behaviour and tries to integrate the spontaneity, originality and ethical awareness that he finds in his sons into his own attitudes and conduct. WHAT OUR CHILDREN TEACH US is a charming book, full of delightful wit as well as seriousness of purpose. Through lively, moving and charmingly candid anecdotes that will strike a chord with every parent, Piero Ferrucci shows us the myriad ways in which our children can help us rediscover wonder, cultivate joy and patience, and open ourselves to a richer and more vital world.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Through lively, moving and charmingly candid anecdotes that will strike a chord with every parent, Piero Ferrucci shows us the many ways in which children hold up a mirror to adult behaviour. He shows how we can integrate the spontaneity, originality and ethical awareness found in children into our own attitudes and conduct.

About the Author

Piero Ferrucci is a distinguished psychologist and author. He lives in Florence with his wife and two sons. WHAT OUR CHILDREN TEACH US is his first general book and it has been translated into 21 languages.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743221087
• ISBN-13: 978-0743221085
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,176,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Piero Ferrucci is a psychotherapist and philosopher. He has been a student and collaborator of Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis. He is the author of What We May Be, Inevitable Grace, What Our Children Teach Us, The Power of Kindness, Beauty and the Soul; the co-author, with Laura Huxley, of The Child of Your Dreams; and the editor of The Human Situation, a book of Aldous Huxley's lectures. He lives near Florence with his wife and two sons.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book!, May 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: What Our Children Teach Us : Lessons in Joy, Love, and Awareness (Hardcover)

Through a series of anecdotes about what it is like to interact with young children, WHAT OUR CHILDREN TEACH US shows us how much we have to learn from kids, especially about honesty. It left me smiling. A nice gift for young fathers (or mothers).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A FRESH LOOK AT PARENTING, May 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: What Our Children Teach Us : Lessons in Joy, Love, and Awareness (Hardcover)

I would recommend this book to any father or mother commmitted to being a fully present parent. Has the flavor of real life and the feeling of being with children during the "small" everyday moments that really count. It's also very amusing to see how the author discovers important things about himself and adults in general from his son's reactions.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book!, May 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: What Our Children Teach Us : Lessons in Joy, Love, and Awareness (Hardcover)

What a wonderful little book! I love the personal stories of Ferrucci's experiences with his kids and the ideas he has about parenting with an attitude open to learning from our children. Funny, warm, and insightful.