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Summary: How I learn to make the best use of this book
Review: This book is set to a poem. It has many stories and you learn principles illustrated with examples and "to dos" along with it. So where does one begin? I used my knowledge mapping technique and discovered that the following three verses are key.
"If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy."
"If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith."
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"If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself."
Unfortunately due the graphic nature of my technique, I can't share it here, but you can read it at VirtuousCycles.net under "parenting".
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Summary: Parental Leadership 101
Review: This outstanding book is focused on leadership and management for the single most important leadership role, title, or position in life-a parent.The book is an in-depth exploration of one of my all-time favorite poems that goes by the same title. For readers unfamiliar with Dorothy Law Nolte's 1954 classic poem, it is included in the front of the book along with Nolte's introduction, "The Story of "Children Learn What They Live,"" in which she shares her thought processes and experiences that led to her wonderful creation. If there were any doubts about the unbelievably powerful influence that parents have on their children, this book will erase any such doubts. I found it a delightful and insightful, easy-to-read book filled with many realistic, common family situations that reflected my own beliefs, experiences, and personal parental goals and expectations. The stories and examples were very effective in helping me to understand and visualize the authors' main points and insights. The most important theme throughout the book for me was that parents have conscious choices to make when it comes to responding to their children. Often, those choices are between good, helpful, thoughtful, and objective proactive responses, and bad, hurtful, thoughtless, and emotional reactive responses. Children are sponges to their parents' words, emotions, and behaviors. Just as the old adage says that leaders lead by example, parents parent by example. As a father, reading this book reminded me of the closing to another of my all-time favorite poems, "Little Eyes Upon You:" "You are setting an example/every day in all you do,/For the little boy who's waiting/to grow up to be like you." This great book should not be read just by parents for raising children, it should be read by everyone for building character and stronger relationships.
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