Parenting With Love and Limits

The books, in order

1. 1

   Family and Parenting · 15 min

   Those Who Love, Educate!

   Içami Tiba

   For Tiba, always rushing in to save your child from his own forgetfulness keeps him from discovering for himself what it costs to be careless.

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2. 2

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

   How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

   Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

   Listening all the way through before giving advice takes away the child's need to argue just to be heard.

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3. 3

   Family and Parenting · 13 min

   Siblings Without Rivalry

   Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

   Treating children equally is not the same as treating them fairly: each child needs what is right for them, at the moment they need it.

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4. 4

   Family and Parenting · 15 min

   Positive Discipline

   Jane Nelsen

   Many provocations from kids are requests for connection, made in the only way the child knows how.

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5. 5

   Family and Parenting · 15 min

   No-Drama Discipline

   Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

   True discipline is about teaching, not punishing: the useful question is what the child needs to learn from this, not how to make them suffer.

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6. 6

   Family and Parenting · 15 min

   Discipline, Limits in the Right Measure

   Içami Tiba

   According to the author, a parent who avoids setting any limit, afraid of repeating their own authoritarian father, also leaves the child lost, just in a different way.

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7. 7

   Family and Parenting · 15 min

   The Whole-Brain Child

   Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

   Learning to observe what you feel without being swallowed by it is a skill the book proposes teaching from an early age.

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8. 8

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

   Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids

   Laura Markham

   Taking a deep breath for a few seconds before responding often keeps a spilled glass of juice from turning into a five-minute scream.

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9. 9

   Family and Parenting · 14 min

   Motherhood and the Encounter with One's Own Shadow

   Laura Gutman

   According to the author, a baby stirs up the mother's own history: today's crying can awaken the helplessness of the child she once was.

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10. 10

    Family and Parenting · 19 min

    Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Preserving your own projects and professional individuality after childbirth does not diminish a mother's love; it teaches children that mothers are also complete human beings.

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