Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans a book by Michaeleen Doucleff
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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans a book by Michaeleen Doucleff
Children deserve helpful, “even” parenting, and adults deserve to be able to break the chain of uneven parenting, a chain that may be newly forged or that may have been passed down for generations. You can identify your own learnings about even and uneven parenting by doing the exercise on page 275 in the appendix.
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