Raising Good Humans

A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

De: Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE, Carla Naumburg PhD

Narrado por: Jennifer Gilmour

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” (Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance)

A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from “reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.

Whether you’re running late for school, trying to get your child to eat their vegetables, or dealing with an epic meltdown in the checkout line at a grocery store - being a parent is hard work! And, as parents, many of us react in times of stress without thinking - often by yelling. But what if, instead of always reacting on autopilot, you could respond thoughtfully in those moments, keep your cool, and get from A to B on time and in one piece?

With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In the process, you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect the generational habits shaped by your parents, so you can break the cycle and respond to your children in more skillful ways.

When children experience a parent reacting with kindness and patience, they learn to act with kindness as well - thereby altering generational patterns for a kinder, more compassionate future. With this essential guide, you’ll see how changing your own “autopilot reactions” can create a lasting positive impact, not just for your kids, but for generations to come.

An essential, must-listen for all parents - now more than ever.

“To raise the children we hope to raise, we have to learn to become the person we hoped to be…. This wonderful book will help you handle the ride.” (KJ Dell’Antonia, author of How to Be a Happier Parent)

“Hunter Clarke-Fields shares her wisdom and personal experience to help parents create peaceful families.” (Joanna Faber and Julie King, coauthors of How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen)

©2019 Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg (P)2019 New Harbinger Publications

Not into Mindfulness? Then it’s not for you

I read a lot of negative reviews of this book being boring, repetitive, a waste of money. I couldn’t disagree more. I was enthralled. This book combines Headspace-style mindfulness meditation with Nonviolent communication and How to Talk so Kids will Listen into one package. It reminds you to be kind to yourself when you inevitably lose it on your kids and try to take it as a learning opportunity. It teaches you the value to believing in neuroplasticity and continuing to work on yourself.

This book was an absolute good use of my time and it’s on my list of books to listen to again when I need a little parenting inspiration and pick me up.

Helpful but room for improvement

I love this book but I wish there were written down pdf's for all the writing questions. It's hard to keep it all straight

Awesome book

Great advise! Enjoyed the read and examples provided. Has detailed of the replacement behaviors parents should engage in.

Loved this

Loved her direct examples of how to interact with your children to create strong, independent, emotionally stable kids. Very straight forward, easy to implement ideas! Strongly recommend!

Good read for all parents

I love that you have to reflect before you correct. This book really opened my eyes and I do hope I can implement what I have learned

A must read!

A must-read for parents and parents-to-be! resourceful, short, and to the point. Recommended to anyone, especially if parenting young kids.

100 million percent recommend!

Absolutely LOVED this book! I loved how well written it was. It was both informative and encouraging. It gave you great ideas of how to speak and deal with your children all the while not faulting you or guilting you for how you may be handling things now. I will be listening to this again very soon. Would give 10 stars! Thank you!

Practical & Simple to follow

It was easy to put the advice offered to practice with my daughter and greatly helped in improving her overall wellbeing and our relationship.

Tips every parent should hear

I love the applicable ideas from this book. Every parent should read this book at least once, and apply the strategies discussed when possible

Every person and/or parent should read!!

I've been struggling along all of my adult life doing what I learned from my parents. Now 35, recently realized that what I've been taught is not normal at all. In fact, it's unhealthy and damaging. This book is a great place to start learning how and where to start change!