The Self Parenting Program: Core Guidelines for the Self-Parenting Practitioner (You Can Become Your Own Loving Parent)

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Summary: Finding the Inner Parent
Review: Dr. Pollard wrote this book primarily to help people become reacquainted with their inner child, understand their child's needs, and to have that inner child engage in active dialogue with the inner parent. I first was recommnded this book by a therapist in 1987, and it helped greatly. I also met Dr. Pollard during that time, whose office happened to be across the hall from mine in Malibu, CA.

Now, however, I am a school psychologist, dealing with many kids in trouble, often because of a lack of parenting, either through divorce, death, abandonment, or simply a decision made by a woman to have a child with no father. I now utilize this excellent book in therapy to help kids find their inner parent, which many of them have internalized despite a lack of decent role modeling. The exercises in this book are at least equally helpful for kids needing to find their inner parent as it is for parents needing to find their inner child. This great book becomes more and more relevant as time goes on. Dr. Pollard, you have given this world a great legacy with this timeless book.

Chuck Wintner

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Summary: Where I Found My Happy Childhood.
Review: This book contains the practical, daily tips that enable an individual to correct the inadequate or abusive parenting that he or she may have received as a child. The focus is on meeting needs that one carries into adulthood and not blaming parents for unhappiness or ineffectiveness. Exercises are very doable and effective.