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Since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the effects of trauma and neglect, it would make an enormous difference if teachers, army sergeants, foster parents, and mental health professionals were thoroughly schooled in emotional-regulation techniques.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
comes over to you and asks for the finished piece of work. Quickly you try
Adele Faber • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Children who are intelligent, alert, attentive, sensitive, and completely attuned to the mothers well-being are entirely at her disposal.
Alice Miller • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication
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We’ve all heard the saying “Children are meant to be seen, not heard.” It was a slogan of sorts that summed up our older generations’ mindset around raising children. This mindset was born out of an understanding that the only needs children had were basic, such as food and shelter. Resource scarcity was a reality for many members of these generati
... See moreNicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
What is required of parents is not perfection but attention, a willingness to learn and relearn, repeatedly—what each child individually needs, and needs from us, in order to blossom and thrive.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff,
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(The problem of education hinges on this point. If parents were more developed themselves and rested in their own center, the opposition between authoritarian and laissez-faire education would hardly exist. Needing this being-authority, the child reacts to it with great eagerness; on the other hand, the child rebels against pressure or neglect by p
... See moreErich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
These parents (and it was usually both) seemed more comfortable seeing their children as little adults than responding to them as children.