The month of February has been busy with the release of my book, Parenting for Social Change. The book has been reviewed by several people.

Wendy Priesnitz, in Life Learning Magazine, writes "I appreciate the approach in this book because it’s not just about creating a new parenting method or behavior, or replacing old rules with new ones. She understands that the child must lead the way and describes how to do that. She writes, 'In our desire to give children the same happy experiences we had or to avoid for them the painful experiences of our own childhood, we may miss the unique childhood that belongs to them.' This book will help you examine your best intentions."

Bob Collier, in The Parental Intelligence Newsletter, writes "This is a book that took courage to write and it deserves kudos for that to begin with. The author makes the case for our society to radically reconsider its traditional beliefs about children and childhood mainly through her own journey as a parent and I suspect that some parts of the story wouldn't have been easy to share. The depth of analysis is superb. This is a book that uses both personal experience and current research to get a very firm grip on the structure of conventional controlling parenting and exposes its ultimate failings with clear logic."

You can read the reviews here. The book is available in paperback, Kindle, PDF download, or ePub for Nook and other readers. You can order the book here.

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Choosing Self-Respect or Approval

After reading this quote from John Holt in his book How Children Fail, I was struck by how as a child I often had to choose between adult approval and self-respect. And alternatively, how I have required Martel or Greyson to choose between self-respect and my love and approval.... Read more.

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Teresa Graham Brett