Good info terrible voice

I really enjoyed what Lisa Miller had to say. It is amazing that she is the first to have studied this information. I spent 1/2 a day with Lisa as she spoke to our school and shared with our students. She is very knowledgeable and a great presenter. Unfortunately, the reader of the this audiobook has a very annoying, high voice. I almost couldn’t continue because the reader was so annoying.

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good message. way too wordy and repetitive

contains a good message and was worth the read. way too repetitive though, feeling like the writer is trying to convince you with their words rather than facts and data.

contains references to.studies but does not go into the details of them. many single person examples instead of stats to try and prove a point.

overall I wish there was more depth and reliance on studies and data.

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I want to love this book....

I want to love this book but the robot voice just is so hard to get passed. Good information but in need of a new narrator.

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Repetitive

I am sympathetic to the aims of this book and believe spirituality and religiosity have significant impact on childhood development. The definition used for spirituality is so inclusive as to be almost synonymous with childhood positive experience. This lack of specificity blunts the purpose of the book

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Painful to listen to

I am very interested in the subject and very much want to hear what the author has to say but this reading is painful to listen to. The reader's voice is harsh and cold. It sounds like a computer is narrating the book and the effect is unpleasant.

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Narrator is awful

I absolutely love the book. But the narrator has a sing song voice with the exact same way of reading every sentence. It drives me crazy. It's hard to listen to and understand what she is saying. But the information in the book is amazing.

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Frustrating

I have been looking forward to reading this book for ages - its premise that children are innately spiritual, and that this spirituality can protect them from the stress, anxiety, and general challenge of growing up in this difficult and confusing world is very compelling to me. However, I found the audiobook so repetitive that I returned it, preferring to read the book in print so I can skim over the author's endless assertion of this premise and get to the actual meat of the topic. I get it! Science has proven that spiritual in children is innate! Now show me precisely how this has been proven, not because I'm a skeptic, but because that's what books that call themselves scientific are supposed to do. In an audio format, listening to the repeated assertion without the evidence is frustrating indeed. I'm sure the evidence is in there, I just don't care to slog through a narrator's breathy, unnecessarily emotional reading when I'm looking for actual substance.

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feels like DSM spirituality

if your looking for true spirituality i recommend books written by those that are spiritual.. Eckhart Tolle ,Yogananda. Enlightened means something, its not a study , its a path.

Scare Tactics

Not sure how the author is still allowed to teach. Spirituality will keep your kids off drugs, apparently. Otherwise it's a miserable life of crime for then and it'll all your fault. Pass on this hack job.