Listen to Interviews with TeresaIf you would like to listen to Teresa talking about her parenting process and struggles as well as her ideas about Parenting for Social Change here are some opportunities.
The idea of learning as a spiral comes from Paulo Freire's discussion of praxis (action and reflection). It is the notion that learning is much more like a spiral than a linear progression of knowledge and skill development. For us as parents, rather than progressing linearly, we will often revisit the same challenges. When we consciously develop the ability to reflect on our actions, we hopefully revisit the issue from a perspective that is further up the spiral, requiring thoughtful work on our part. Teresa and Barb Lundgren, from the
Rethinking Everything Conference
and
Rethinking Everything Magazine
, facilitate a discussion about the thoughtful process that is required of us as we challenge ourselves to upgrade our actions, our communication with our children and teens and move gradually up the spiral to a place of real confidence and unconditionality. |
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"This is a book that took courage to write....Yes, excellent."
~Bob Collier, The Parental Intelligence Newsletter
"This is a brilliant book-- provocative and passionate."
~Charles F. Behling, parent and former Co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations
"Graham Brett helps her readers dig deep into how we may have been controlled as children – largely due to the social and cultural environments of the time – and to consider how they shape our views as parents."
~Wendy Priesnitz, Life Learning Magazine
Parenting for Social Change is a powerful parenting book that …isn’t really about children, but about the harmful cultural messages we, as parents, perpetuate in our relationships with children.
…addresses the work we as parents must do to free ourselves, the children who share our lives, and our world from those harmful messages.
…debunks, using current research, the myth that controlling children is necessary to ensure they grow into healthy, responsible, and valuable adults.
…demonstrates how changing our parent-child relationships plays a critical role in creating social change.
…gives parents strategies and tools for letting go of harmful control of children.