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Raising Human Beings

Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

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Raising Human Beings

By: Ross W. Greene Ph.D. Ph.D.
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.

Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is—his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and direction—get comfortable with it, and then help them pursue and live a life according to it. Yet parents also want their kids to be independent, but not if they are going to make bad choices. They want to avoid being too overbearing, but not if an apathetic kid is what they have to show for it. They want to have a good relationship with their kids, but not if that means being a pushover. They don’t want to scream, but they do want to be heard. Good parenting is about striking the balance between a child’s characteristics and a parent’s desire to have influence.

Dr. Ross Greene “makes a powerful case for rethinking typical approaches to parenting and disciplining children” (The Atlantic). Through his well-known model of solving problems collaboratively, parents can forgo timeout and sticker charts; stop badgering, berating, threatening, and punishing; allow their kids to feel heard and validated; and have influence.

From homework to hygiene, curfews, to screen time, Dr. Greene “arms parents with guidelines that are clear, doable, and sure to empower both parents and their children” (Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen). Raising Human Beings is “inspirational…a game-changer for parents, teachers, and other caregivers. Its advice is reasonable and empathetic, and readers will feel ready to start creating a better relationship with the children in their lives” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Ross Greene gives us an amazing strategy for resolving conflict, not just between parents and children but between siblings, partners, and this system could be used in schools and workplaces. It is respectful and dynamic. I wish I had this years ago!

A great resource to resolve conflict

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This book and its philosophy stands head and shoulders out from anything else I have encountered.

It offers both a thoughtful and important philosophy and practical methods for helping kids and parents.

I am going to now order the print version so I can refer to it.

Really enjoyed taking this book in via bite sized portions as an audiobook, nice performance by the narrator.


Highly recommend this parenting book

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