Nurture Your Child's Gift: Inspired Parenting

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Summary: An Excellent Read!
Review: "Nurture Your Child's Gift" will give you pause for reflection and exploration into and discovery of your own parenting skills; subtly guiding you back to the inspired parenting path. Discover the power of this book by learning and applying the incredible wisdom of Caron Goode.

Rating:
Summary: An Excellent Read!
Review: "Nurture Your Child's Gift" will give you pause for reflection and exploration into and discovery of your own parenting skills; subtly guiding you back to the inspired parenting path. Discover the power of this book by learning and applying the incredible wisdom of Caron Goode.

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Summary: Nurture Your Child's Gift
Review: After reading Nurture Your Child's Gift, by Caron Goode, ED.D., you may never again view your role as a parent the same way again. Dr. Goode reveals how children's dreams and passions, when acknowledged and nurtured, can serve as a beacon forever drawing them towards their highest good and greatest joy. Dr. Goode invites you to experience your parent-child relationship on a higher, more meaningful level. What if your role as a parent served the greater purpose of helping your child discover and fulfill his heart's desire? Only when we know our children's dreams can we fully understand, accept, and celebrate their individual personalities, temperaments, and abilities. We discover how the stages of a child's development beautifully coincide with the blossoming of the dream. Dr. Goode also shares the latest in mindbody research while offering powerful techniques, such as deep breathing, guided imagery, and music therapy, which can help children release stress, gain energy, and create joy. Dr. Goode, whose knowledge and experience is drawn from thirty years in the fields of education, personal empowerment, and therapy, inspires us to open our hearts and minds to more powerful and thoughtful ways of parenting, while promising our children a brighter future than we ever imagined. Every parent should read this book.

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Summary: Nurture Your Child's Gift
Review: After reading Nurture Your Child's Gift, by Caron Goode, ED.D., you may never again view your role as a parent the same way again. Dr. Goode reveals how children's dreams and passions, when acknowledged and nurtured, can serve as a beacon forever drawing them towards their highest good and greatest joy. Dr. Goode invites you to experience your parent-child relationship on a higher, more meaningful level. What if your role as a parent served the greater purpose of helping your child discover and fulfill his heart's desire? Only when we know our children's dreams can we fully understand, accept, and celebrate their individual personalities, temperaments, and abilities. We discover how the stages of a child's development beautifully coincide with the blossoming of the dream. Dr. Goode also shares the latest in mindbody research while offering powerful techniques, such as deep breathing, guided imagery, and music therapy, which can help children release stress, gain energy, and create joy. Dr. Goode, whose knowledge and experience is drawn from thirty years in the fields of education, personal empowerment, and therapy, inspires us to open our hearts and minds to more powerful and thoughtful ways of parenting, while promising our children a brighter future than we ever imagined. Every parent should read this book.

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Summary: A Must-Have Book for Parents
Review: As an author and therapist I'm pretty picky about what I recommend. But I can tell you that Caron Goode's book is one that I recommend to all of my clients and friends. She provides powerful insight and hands-on techniques to help parents reach their goal of raising self-confident, happy children who feel free to follow their dream. In a world so focused on fear, this book should go to the top of your purchase list.

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Summary: Amazing and Insightful
Review: In a world filled with parenting books on how to teach kids to stay out of trouble and how to be "good" it is very refreshing to read Dr. Goode's unique approach to inspiring and nurturing kids natural instincts, their intuition, their dreams and their internal wisdom to acheive the highest goal...acheiving their dreams and becoming all they can be. Dr. Goode's book is a fascinating and research based account that no parent should pass up.

Anne Leedom
Parentingbookmark.com

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Summary: We all have dreams...
Review: Oliver had a dream. Sarah had a dream. Caron has a dream. Oliver and Sarah had dreams as children that guided them to their life's direction. Their parents supported their dreams; they gave them opportunities to explore them.

Caron Goode, ED.D. has started making her dreams come true too. Her recently published book, "Nurture Your Child's Gift- Inspired Parenting", is all about trusting our children to dream and supporting their visions.

Goode's premise is that all children are born with unique gifts and personal visions. She believes that if parents and communities want to do what's best for their children, they will recognize and encourage their gifts and dreams. She believes that its time for a parenting revolution.

Goode may sound radical but she's actually providing a framework and language for parents' intuition. Many parents have noticed their kid's interests and tried to support their passions. Carol O'Brien, a grandmother in California said she noticed her kids' life directions very early on, She recalls, "My youngest daughter studied bird books when she was only eight years-old. She spent hours drawing and correctly coloring specific species. Now she works for a vet and raises birds in her own aviary. She has a real gift with animals."

Intuitive parents like Carol allowed her children to follow their dreams but she didn't know what to do to help them cultivate their interests. Goode gives today's parents and grandparents specific tools for nurturing children's gifts. She provides solid research and studies to back up her premise then goes on to give building blocks for empowering and creating a healthy mind-body relationship.

Cleary written and easily referenced, "Nurturing Your Child's Gift", is filled with ideas and suggestions that make sense. Something as simple as breathing fully is often forgotten in families busy lives. Goode states that this is the single most important exercise you can teach your child. In a first-grade class she interviewed, only one child breathed deeply. The rest breathed shallowly which has been found to be associated with anxiety, high blood pressure, nervous disorders, depression and psychosomatic disorders. Anyone who breathes in their upper chest and not into their belly is potentially at risk not only for the body but also for the mind and spirit. "How you breathe reflects your self-esteem," writes Goode. "How you breathe directly correlates to your enjoyment and satisfaction in life."

Learning how to breathe seems easy but like knowing yourself and knowing what you truly want to manifest, it requires emotional understanding, a healthy mind-body connection and the belief that we can make our dreams come true. Goode makes a clear argument that not only can parents help their children recognize their dreams through breath-work, music, creative problem-solving, guided imagery and affirmations, she believes we have an obligation to do so. It's clear by the number of violent episodes in our schools, the growing number of kids with depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts that something needs to change. Goode know that parents want their kids to be happy and she knows that comes from doing what you truly love. "Nurturing Your Child's Gift" is meant for the new generations but perhaps parents can begin with their own dreams.

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Summary: Parenting for the 21 century: review by Gen Xer
Review: This was my first time on Amazon.Com, and I had to comment on this book. As a product of Generation X, I have heard the echo of my generation..... we are a very self interested group, motivated by what benifits us directly. As I have grown into adult-hood key themes of this generation have held steadfast,while some have fallen away. There has been an awareness of self that has resounded, focusing inward towards preservation of self. Through meditation,self-assessment, empowerment, and striving to nurture the left and right hand sides of the brain, our generation is unlike any other. What we have learned has the oppurtunity to carry over into parenting techniques to nurture our children in a style that has hardly been looked at or applied. This book on inspired parenting gives you tools for application in nurturing your child. These tools will not be found in the tradtional educational system (YET!) and it is an amazingly simple set of concepts to grasp. The chapters are easy reading filled with vingettes and inspiring quotes. Dr Goode begins her book with a chapter on your child's dreams. In today's fast paced society, most childrens "dreams" are merely seen as a passing interest. How do we, as parents, learn to distinguish between our childrens dreams and a passing fancy? Dr. Goode discusses ways to recognize and nurture your child dreams. She addresses basic child development theories, adding additional insights not found in most parenting books that are out there. Dr. Goode also goes through self-esteem, empowerment, recognizing and managing stress in children. Her alternative themes are holistic in nature offering a way to recognize and manage behavior without being one of the millions of parents who have a child on prozac before they even reach puberty. As a parent of the 21st century, I hope that Inspired Parenting is a glimpse into a new way of parenting for a better generation of enlightened and aware individuals... what a society we could have.....