Summary
Michaeleen Doucleff: The Lost Art of Parenting
What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helping Little People
"The book The Lost Art of Parenting is full of clever ideas that I immediately wanted to apply to my own children." Pamela Druckerman, book review in the New York Times
The world's oldest cultures have mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them?
In the book The Lost Art of Parenting, Doucleff jumps into action with her three-year-old daughter to learn and practice the parenting strategies of three highly successful communities: a Mayan family in Mexico, an Inuit family above the Arctic Circle, and a Hadzabe family in Tanzania. Mayans are masters in raising cooperative children. The Inuit have developed an extremely effective approach to teaching children about emotional intelligence. Hadzabe are experts in raising self-reliant, self-initiative children with a simple tool that protects children from stress and anxiety. The author lives with these families and observes their methods first hand and applies them in the upbringing of her own daughter, with striking results. Learn how to discipline without yelling.
The book is filled with practical instructions that parents can implement immediately and helps us rethink the ways we treat our children.
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