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The conscious parent : transforming ourselves, empowering our children
Tsabary, Shefali
Adult Nonfiction 649.1 T 2010
Tsabary, Shefali
Adult Nonfiction 649.1 T 2010
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| Contents | Page |
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| 1 - A Real Person Like Myself | p. 1 |
| You Are Raising a Spirit Throbbing with Its Own Signature | p. 2 |
| Parenting Unconsciously Is Where We All Begin | p. 4 |
| To Connect with Your Children, First Connect with Yourself | p. 6 |
| You Can Build a Feeling of Kinship in Your Family | p. 9 |
| How Consciousness Changes How We Parent | p. 10 |
| 2 - The Spiritual Reason We Birth Our Children | p. 13 |
| How Can a Child Awaken an Adult? | p. 15 |
| How Conscious Parenting Is Learned | p. 19 |
| A Conscious Parent Doesn't Emerge Overnight | p. 21 |
| 3 - Release Your Children From the Need for Your Approval | p. 25 |
| Acceptance Is Key | p. 28 |
| There's Nothing Passive About Acceptance | p. 30 |
| Don't Parent with a Cookie-Cutter Approach | p. 31 |
| You Will Only Accept Your Child to the Degree You Accept Yourself | p. 35 |
| 4 - A Blow to Our Ego | p. 39 |
| How Does Ego Function? | p. 40 |
| The Ego of Image | p. 43 |
| The Ego of Perfection | p. 44 |
| The Ego of Status | p. 47 |
| The Ego of Conformity | p. 48 |
| The Ego of Being "In Control" | p. 50 |
| You Can Transition Out of Ego | p. 53 |
| 5 - Is Your Child Growing You Up? | p. 56 |
| Face Up to Your Reactivity | p. 58 |
| Discover Your Emotional Inheritance | p. 61 |
| How Can You Integrate Your Pain? | p. 64 |
| How to Handle Your Child's Pain | p. 65 |
| Take One Step at a Time | p. 68 |
| What It Takes to Tame Your Anxiety | p. 74 |
| 6 - Life Is Wise | p. 77 |
| Life Itself Teaches Us | p. 78 |
| Is It Possible to Trust Life? | p. 80 |
| Your Child Doesn't Need to Earn Your Trust | p. 81 |
| How You Draw Many of Your Circumstances to You | p. 83 |
| You Can Break Free of Your Unconsciousness | p. 86 |
| It's All in the Interpretation We Give it | p. 89 |
| 7 - The Challenge of a Lifetime | p. 95 |
| Infancy and the "Terrible Two's" | |
| The Lessons of Infancy for the Parent | p. 96 |
| A Journey of Self-discovery | p. 98 |
| A Chance to Recover Your Rhythm | p. 100 |
| Toddlerhood: A Planet All Its Own | p. 102 |
| Toddlerhood Is the Time to Sow the Seeds of Containment | p. 105 |
| 8 - From Center Stage to Supportiang Cast | p. 109 |
| A Parent's Opportunity for Spiritual | |
| Growth in the School Years | |
| Middle School: the Challenge of "Being There" for Our Children | p. 110 |
| High School: the Need for Unequivocal Acceptance | p. 113 |
| Why It's Important to Resist the Temptation to Control | p. 115 |
| 9 - The Insanity of Parenthood | p. 117 |
| The Particular Role of the Mother | p. 118 |
| Raising a Child Is an Invitation to Surrender to a Different Pace | p. 122 |
| 10 - Parent From Wholeness Instead of Your Wounds | p. 125 |
| If You Grew Up Feeling You Weren't Good Enough | p. 127 |
| If You Learned to Please Others to Earn Their Approval | p. 130 |
| Were You Unable to Be Yourself? | p. 134 |
| "Bad" Behavior Is Really a Search for Our Inherent Goodness | p. 137 |
| Your Brokenness Doesn't Reflect Your True Being | p. 139 |
| 11 - A Household Built on Being | p. 141 |
| Are You Aware that Anxiety Is a Form of "Doing?" | p. 144 |
| What's the Source of Our Fear of the Present? | p. 147 |
| Beyond Living by "Doing" | p. 149 |
| The Moment Is Now | p. 151 |
| 12 - The Wonder of the Ordinary | p. 155 |
| Do You Revel In Your Child's Ordinariness? | p. 156 |
| The Fallacy of the Overproduction of Life | p. 158 |
| Surrender the Urgency to "Do" | p. 161 |
| Back to Basics | p. 162 |
| A Life that Mirrors Who Your Child Is | p. 165 |
| 13 - Shelve Those Great Expectations | p. 167 |
| Honor Who Your Child Is | p. 168 |
| How to Set the Bar for Your Child | p. 169 |
| What Can You Realistically Expect of Your Child? | p. 172 |
| Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome | p. 174 |
| Use the Right Kind of Praise | p. 178 |
| Realize that Your Children Imitate You | p. 179 |
| 14 - Create a Conscious Space In Your Child's Life | p. 183 |
| Allow Room for Stillness in Your Child's Schedule | p. 184 |
| Create a Meaningful Narrative for Your Child | p. 186 |
| Why Expressing Gratitude to Your Child Is a Powerful Parenting Tool | p. 188 |
| 15 - Connect to Your Child with Engaged Presence | p. 193 |
| How We Undermine Our Attempts to Connect with Our Children | p. 195 |
| Do You Validate Your Children's Behavior, or Their Being? | p. 197 |
| Just Be There | p. 200 |
| 16 - How to Handle Your Child's Mistakes | p. 205 |
| Do You Really Know Why They Did What They Did? | p. 206 |
| How You Can Transform Mistakes into Spiritual Gold | p. 208 |
| Celebrate Your Child's Mistakes | p. 210 |
| 17 - The Two Wings of the Eagle | p. 213 |
| A Child Can't Soar Without Containment | p. 214 |
| The Spiritual Approach to Discipline | p. 218 |
| Don't Avoid Conflict-Value It | p. 221 |
| How to Discipline in a Manner that Works | p. 223 |
| The Rule about Rules | p. 226 |
| Why Teaching Is More Effective Than Punishment | p. 229 |
| Acting Out Reflects Unmet Emotional Needs | p. 232 |
| Do You Own Your Part in Your Children's Behavior? | p. 234 |
| Why Delightful Children Turn into Defiant Teens | p. 238 |
| Heavy-handed Tactics Backfire | p. 241 |
| How to Execute the "No" | p. 245 |
| Timing Is Crucial | p. 249 |
| Afterword | |
| Understanding Our Shared Unconsciousness | p. 253 |
| We're All in This Together | p. 254 |
| Becoming a Parent Who Is Present | p. 256 |
| Appendix | |
| The Consciousness Compass | p. 259 |
| Questions to Ask Ourselves | |
| Some Highlights From the Conscious Parent | p. 263 |
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