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The Good Enough Parent

How to Raise Contented, Interesting, and Resilient Children

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The Good Enough Parent

By: The School of Life
Narrated by: Sonya Cullingford
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A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child.

Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck.

The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say ‘no’ to a child you adore, how to look beneath the surface of ‘bad’ behavior to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence.

Most importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not required - and could indeed be dangerous, because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything. Written in a tone that is encouraging, wry, and soaked in years of experience, The Good Enough Parent is an intelligent guide to raising a child who will one day look back on their childhood with just the right mixture of gratitude, humor, and love.

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I loved this. I’ve read parenting book after parenting book, & And this is the first of its kind. This is not an instructional how to. This is not a turn to this chapter for your answer. This book is much more vast with its perception, painting in large brush strokes, giving us a philosophical landscape of what it takes, what it REALLY takes to be a parent & how to be a child.

There a quotes I miss already & am somewhat tempted to play it again immediately, just after finishing it. The performance from the narrator is impeccable too.

I think we all need to read this book. At least once.

Will return to this again & again

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The narration is great and it flows easily but I was pushing through from chapter 3 and got half way through 7 and I had heard enough. I think this book has a lot of nuggets of wisdom and I am a parent. I just felt that I would have gotten more from this book when my child was younger (he is 6). A lot of what is in this book I have already picked up along the way or I naturally already do. I wanted to love it but I couldn't get past thinking it is a great book for parents with younger kids, perhaps a great book for people thinking of having kids or with babies/toddlers. Not saying it is a bad book, it is just not for me.

I wanted to love this book but I just couldn’t

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